‘Almost naked’ Moscow party enrages Russia, leads to convictions

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Russian TV presenter and influencer Anastasia Ivleeva has been fined by a Moscow court for arranging a risqué party at Moscow’s Mutabor nightclub, attended by

Sanef objects to journalist’s arrest for taking photos of mayor’s house

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The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has raised concerns over the treatment of journalist Thomo Nkgadima, who says police held him behind bars over

NYT sues OpenAI over claimed copyright breach

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The New York Times says ChatGPT-owner OpenAI and Microsoft should be held responsible for ‘millions of dollars’ in damages for what it claims are copyright

Controversial, widely admired Ngema dies

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The death in a car accident of Mbongeni Ngema has recalled the playwright, choreographer, actor and musician’s renown for his musical on the 1976 uprising,

UCT apologises unreservedly to former executive, admits governance failure

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The University of Cape Town (UCT) council has extended an ‘unreserved apology’ in writing to former senior executive Dr Russell Ally, who was forced to

Pope, King Charles highlight suffering in Middle East conflict

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Pope Francis used his Christmas Day message, delivered before thousands of worshippers gathered at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, to call for an end

Anti-war Putin rival barred from election

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Former television journalist Yekaterina Duntsova who intended standing in the Russian election on a platform to end the war with Ukraine, has been barred from

New species of hedgehog discovered

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Several scientific missions to the tropical forests of South East Asia – as well as a re-evaluation of specimens held in museum collections for decades

Khashoggi’s wife granted US political asylum

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Hanan Elatr, whose husband, journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, has been granted political asylum in the US.

US man released after longest-known wrongful sentence

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A man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit has been exonerated by an Oklahoma judge. Seventy-year-old Glynn Simmons was