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

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

India would not allow a UN investigator to join a probe of a crashed Air India jet that some safety experts had criticized for delays in analysis of crucial black box data, two senior sources familiar ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Many foreigners are selling their American financial assets. Outsiders increasingly pity – not envy – the US because of the domestic political quagmire in which it is visibly trapped; its foreign ...

A Gqeberha High Court judge has acquitted a Louterwater farmer of murder after he shot an armed intruder during a late-night break-in. But Stephanus Samson was convicted of kidnapping, attempted ...