Four more South African soldiers have been killed in fighting with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said, taking the number of South African peacekeepers killed to 13 ...

The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), sources familiar with the matter said, after Washington put a ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

A scrappy Chinese AI startup is sending shockwaves through the tech sector, prompting a market-wide panic as investors question whether multi-billion-dollar valuations are merely a mirage in the ...

Swiss National Bank Chairman Martin Schlegel has not ruled out taking the central bank’s policy rate into negative territory if necessary, he said on Monday, although such a step would not be taken ...

Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling, the west African country’s newly appointed finance minister Cassiel Ato ...

DeepSeek's AI model has not only outpaced ChatGPT in app downloads but also sent Nvidia's leveraged ETFs spiraling downward, leaving investors wondering if they’ve just witnessed a "Sputnik moment" or ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

The European Union renewed on Monday its wide-ranging sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, after Hungary stopped holding up the move in return for a declaration on energy security.

The source of an oil pollution incident which left 19 underweight African penguins oiled between Hout Bay and Kommetjie last week remains a mystery.

Xolani Patrick Lingani was shot when officers tried to break up a gathering outside a spaza shop in Mdantsane during the fifth day of the lockdown in 2020.

Criminals use high-value goods traders as a money laundering mechanism, making playing ball with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (Fica) all the more important.