With less than a month to go until Christmas, Santa Claus is busy preparing, but the warming climate and lack of snow in his Arctic hometown have him worried.
Five projects seeking novel solutions to the world’s environmental challenges each won £1 million (nearly R23m) this week.
Lucie PEYTERMANNPictures by Joel Saget and Guillem SartorioJeanne Allaire Kayigirwa was sure she was going to die three times during the Rwandan genocide in which ...
When Paul Sinton-Hewitt created Parkrun, only 13 people turned out at a London park. Twenty years on, millions jog, run or walk 5km every week.
Oscar-winning British actor Maggie Smith, a star of stage and screen for more than seven decades, died at the age of 89 in hospital in London yesterday, her sons, ...
A Western Cape woman celebrated her 118th birthday yesterday (Friday) ‒ making her one of the oldest people in the world ‒ with a small party at her care home.
Ig Nobel Prizes dished out to weirdly whacky research.
A first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom ...
Jay Shah has spoken of India’s “unparalleled global fan base”, and with cricket an Olympic sport at Los Angeles 2028, he dreams of using the sport to bolster India’s ...
Premier League clubs were slow to splash their cash in the early months of the transfer window, but business has picked up ahead of the start of the new season on ...
AFP Sports looks at what to expect from the opening weekend of the new English Premier League season, which kicks off with Manchester United hosting Fulham on Friday ...
Manchester City face a strong challenge from Arsenal as the champions look to win an unprecedented fifth successive Premier League title.
France bids farewell to dazzling Paris Olympics after two weeks of celebration and sporting drama.
There was much heartache for Team South Africa yesterday at the Paris Games as Candice Lill and Caitlin Rooskrantz’s Olympics suffered disappointing results, while ...
The US open the defence of their Olympic crown against Nikola Jokic’s Serbia on Sunday in Lille, where the early rounds of the basketball are taking place before ...
Two-time singles gold medallist Andy Murray, who will end his career at the Paris Olympics after almost two decades on tour, will only play doubles.
Italian sprinter Marcell Jacobs now seems on the right trajectory heading into the Paris Olympics, where he will look to defend his 100m title he claimed in Tokyo ...
Olympic torch arrives in Tahiti, showcasing locale for 2024 surfing competition.
Condolences flooded in from Palestinian militant group Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and from Syria, all members of the so-called Axis of Resistance against Israel ...
Max Verstappen secured his eighth consecutive pole position in qualifying for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on Saturday to equal the record of Ayrton Senna. ...
Social network Twitter has fully migrated over to X. com according to Elon Musk.
Charles Leclerc shone in the sunshine while Max Verstappen slithered and grumbled as the Ferrari driver dominated Friday practice at the ...
Lando Norris has played down his hopes of beating Max Verstappen again in this Sunday's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Caster Semenya said yesterday’s hearing at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) into whether the double Olympic champion can be required to lower her testosterone ...
Alex Albon has committed his long-term future to Williams after it was announced he had signed a ‘multi-year’ contract extension with the British team.