Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, tangled with Fox News host Jesse Watters in an interview Monday, repeatedly pivoting from “culture war” questions to refocus on affordability in his state. “You want to bring up all this culture war,” El-Sayed told Watters during the 25-minute interview. “I’m not here to fight a…
MTN Group is targeting 150MW of capacity in a first phase spanning South Africa and Nigeria, group CEO Ralph Mupita told a media roundtable on Tuesday. The group will hold only a minority stake in the UAE-backed data-centre venture behind it, he said. The comments put hard numbers to a deal MTN described only in…
Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
NASA is preparing to launch its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, embarking on a mission to investigate the fundamental mysteries of dark energy, dark matter, cosmic gravity, and alien worlds. Read: Samsung teases another Galaxy event on August 27 The $4-billion (R64-billion) project is scheduled to launch on Sunday aboard a…
United Airlines is expanding to 10 new international destinations, including Okinawa, Japan, and Ibiza, Spain. Scott Kirby, the airline’s CEO, joins “CBS Mornings” with more.
The Lancet HIV Commission on Ageing‘s 2026 report highlights how profoundly the global HIV epidemic is changing. In 2025, an estimated 11.5 million (29%) people living with HIV were aged 50 years and older. This is projected to increase to 20.2 million by 2040. That would account for more than half (51%) of all people…
Researchers identify AI monitoring, platform regulation, demand reduction and community coordination as key weapons against online wildlife trafficking. (Image created via Gemini) Social media platforms − including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube − are fuelling a rapidly-expanding illegal wildlife trade that is becoming increasingly difficult to detect and police. A review conducted by a team…
Miss World South Africa, Romanda Hombir, has won the 2026 Miss World Africa Head-to-Head Challenge. She delivered a standout performance at the Head-to-Head (H2H) Challenge held in Nha Trang, Vietnam. She beat out the continental Top 5, which included Nigeria’s Soye Karibi George, Kenya’s Trizah Muhenje Akala, Zambia’s Dr Adah Mushibi, and Eritrea’s Snit Habteab…
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says India urgently needs to tackle hate crimes against Bengali-speaking Muslims and increase protections for other groups. Published On 25 Aug 202625 Aug 2026 A United Nations watchdog has said India must step up protections for tribal peoples and disadvantaged castes facing extrajudicial killings, torture and…
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — For pastoralists in Arvaikheer — a village in Mongolia’s dry central plains — rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are replenished and whether families make it through another dry season. But as climate change makes rainfall increasingly unpredictable, even a wet season…
