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China kicked off a three-day long sports showcase for humanoid robots on Friday, looking to highlight progress in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries competing in the ...

Anti-government protesters demolished the offices of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the northern city of Novi Sad and clashed with police and SNS supporters in the capital Belgrade on ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is ready to end his war in Ukraine, speaking on the eve of Friday's summit between the men, but that peace would ...

South Africa’s car industry is in the throes of perhaps its biggest set of changes yet. I am sure you remember the car you learnt to drive in. For me, it was a fire engine-red go-kart with a gear ...

In 2023, the Gauteng government promised to act after clashes between e-hailing drivers and the taxi industry at Maponya Mall. Yet on Wednesday, an e-hailing driver was killed and his vehicle set ...

In the last days of July 2025, Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem released a report titled Our Genocide — the first time that a local organisation, made up of Jewish Israelis and Palestinians, ...

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of three people in Fairview, the latest in a series of violent incidents suspected of being linked to disputes within Gqeberha’s taxi industry. The attacks ...

In this episode, The Readiness Report’s host, Redi Tlhabi, takes apart the Army Chief’s eyebrow-raising trip to Iran, in the very week South Africa is scrambling to ease US tariffs. She calls it an ...

At just 21, Gqeberha artist Nadia Foster has transformed South End Museum’s emblem into a striking mosaic, a project that tested her patience and skill. From sketching Barbies as a child to public art ...

Loans from international financial institutions are often celebrated as victories. But we need to ask what these loans are actually financing – and to whose benefit.

After facing murder, theft and firearms-related charges, Karen Webb walked free from the city’s Magistrate’s Court on Thursday under strict bail conditions, ending a drawn-out legal battle that began ...