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

In Owele, poet Sihle Ntuli embarks on a deeply personal return, not to a single place, but to a confluence of memory, language, and landscape. As rivers flow through the hills of KwaZulu-Natal, Ntuli ...

Bacon makes everything seem better. Potatoes have that effect too. So let’s put them together and turn out what may be the most satisfying air fryer potato dish of them all.

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SpaceX said on Thursday its debris recovery efforts after last week's Starship explosion have been hindered and it has sought cooperation from Mexico, whose president has raised the possibility of ...

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years.

The White House has recommended terminating US funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian ...

You are allowed to invest R36,000 a year in a tax-free investment and there will be no capital gains tax (CGT) on any growth. Be careful about using this for short-term or medium-term savings, as you ...

In the rush towards the latest trendy ingredient in cooking, some of the simple joys get left behind. Like sago. Like soeters. But let’s start with sago, and make a good old-fashioned pudding of it.

After the abrupt termination of American aid, the health system in central Mozambique descended into chaos. In part one of this special series, Spotlight and GroundUp explained how children with HIV ...

Digital access or regressive tax? TymeBank, Capitec and Minister Leon Schreiber weigh in as Department of Home Affairs identity verification fee hike becomes law.

In this episode, journalist and editor Tony Karon joins Redi Tlhabi on The Readiness Report to unpack the pressures facing newsrooms in the West, from censorship around Israel and Palestine, to the ...