Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... This is a selection of images from our planet, from the past 48 hours.

Rugby unions linked to South Africa’s richest men and the nation’s sports minister have set back a controversial private equity deal over the commercial rights to the country’s world ...

The International Fund for Animal Welfare has confirmed that five elephants have been killed in recent months on the Zambian side of Malawi’s Kasungu National Park in retaliation for crop raiding. But ...

As tensions between two Tigray People’s Liberation Front factions rise, urgent measures are needed to prevent another crisis in the Ethiopian region.

It’s as macho and gung ho as a cut of meat gets, and it needs taming. Enter the potjie, and plenty of time. A few years ago, Checkers sent me a slab of picanha, at the start of my journey of cooking ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled his much anticipated "Victory Plan" at Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday, urging his war-weary country to stay united at a precarious time ahead of its key U.S.

It’s 1889, a time when Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and Antonin Carême were long dead but Auguste Escoffier was only starting as director of London’s Savoy Hotel kitchen, in the nascence of his fame.

Hillbrow started out as Johannesburg’s first health hub in the late 1880s. It’s also been a suburb associated with pimps and sex work, a middle finger to the Nationalist Party and a key site of the ...

The Department of Health irregularly appointed Brainwave Projects SA on a multimillion-rand contract for the provision of satellite internet connectivity at health facilities, the Auditor-General has ...

This years’ winners find democratic institutions and the rule of law are more likely to have been established in countries in which European colonisers faced little resistance.

An extract from a new coffee table book set in magnificent Botswana. Created by South African photographers and writers Roger & Pat de la Harpe, it tells the story of the majestic people and wildlife ...

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) has enjoyed good growth globally and will continue to show upward momentum until at least 2030, according to leading research company Cavell Group. To meet ...