Alibaba shares drop nearly 7% post-earnings, while oil steadies amid US-Iran deal talks. Caution prevails in markets.

Peru's interior ministry said on Thursday that a suspect in the killing of 13 miners in the northern district of Pataz has been arrested in Colombia.

U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday defeated a Democratic resolution calling for a review of human rights in El Salvador, focusing on conditions at a maximum-security prison holding people deported ...

US singer Chris Brown has been arrested and charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm in connection with an alleged assault in February 2023, British authorities said on Thursday.

China is moving deeper into the soft power void opening up on the world stage. Trump is an unwitting ally. The more mercurial his behaviour, the more China seems the adult in the room.

The tradition of Ukrainian aerospace continues. Driven today less by prestige than necessity, it has become a global leader in ‘kopters’ – as drones are locally known.

For years, clogged ports, crippled freight corridors and an ailing rail network have choked the economy. Now, the state is opening up the door for private sector participation with one hand still on ...

No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to between 90,000 and 140,000 years ago.

This lesson could help the industry,’ Cybersmart cofounder and CTO Laurie Fialkov told Daily Maverick in a candid interview as the national outage dust settles.

South Africa made massive progress in reducing transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. Even so, about 7,000 babies still contract the virus every year. Experts put this down to having the ...

South Africa’s crisis is not just a crisis of stagnation, which breeds inequality. For more than a decade, we’ve grown at an average of just 1% per year. That is a slow collapse.

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rise too, ...