New International Olympic Committee chief Kirsty Coventry fought back tears on Wednesday as she urged nations to come together in the 2026 Winter Games, as the torch relay set off from ancient Olympia in Greece. Addressing guests during the torch ceremony at the Olympia archaeological museum, as the first woman to head the Olympic movement,…
President Donald Trump called for a “re-examination” of all Afghan nationals who came to the U.S. during the Biden administration, hours after an Afghan man was named as the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X that the suspect came to the…
A US-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington, accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker’s denials. An Apple logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration created on 25 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File…
Nairobi — President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 Summit, scheduled to take place in Miami, Florida, intensifying a diplomatic standoff that has simmered for weeks following Washington’s boycott of the 2025 G20 Summit in Johannesburg. In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform,…
An online network of bot-like accounts, media sites and X users has been spreading disinformation supporting sanctioned Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler and attacking civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Global Witness analysis has found Dozens of X accounts and at least 10 Congolese news websites shared misleading claims in July…
Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent , Southern Lebanon Neha Sharma/BBC Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia…
AI expert and founder of AIforBusiness.net Johan Steyn. AI expert and founder of AIforBusiness.net, Johan Steyn has been confirmed as MC for the ITWeb Artificial Intelligence Summit 2026, themed: ‘Shaping the intelligent enterprise of tomorrow’. It is scheduled for 22 April at The Forum, in Bryanston. The event will bring together SA’s leading enterprises, technology…
For centuries the giant prehistoric monument in southwest England has remained a mystery. Who built Stonehenge? What was its meaning or purpose? Mark Phillips takes us to Stonehenge for a fascinating and revealing report on one of the world’s most famous and inscrutable sites.
National treasury is considering a 20% tax on online betting to curb the rising scourge of problem gambling in South Africa. Speaking to TechCentral on Wednesday, Rise Mzansi MP Makashule Gana – who a year ago warned that online gambling is growing into South Africa’s next big social ill – said a national tax is…
Bangkok, Thailand – Stewed, seasoned with sugar and cloves, deep-fried or dished up in a zingy chilli mince – the diets of most Thais are incomplete without pork. But a $3bn market – supplied nearly entirely by domestic pig farmers – may be about to face competition like never before from the giant hog farms…
