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About a dozen New York state and local elected officials were arrested on Thursday during protests at a Manhattan building where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operate holding cells ...

Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects is giving a glimpse of a Cretaceous Period ecosystem ...

Spurred on by an attempted US right-wing crackdown on Saying Bad Things About Charlie Kirk, South Africa’s self-proclaimed head boy, Ernst Roets, is warning local chatterboxes that he and his crew of ...

Following sharp cost-of-living increases in recent years, a mother and her daughter in Waterworks, Johannesburg, sometimes resort to eating cooked leaves from their mulberry tree.

We start our series of airline-focused articles at the end, with the Gulf carrier’s R90bn retrofit that addresses a glaring inconsistency in its fleet and reveals why airlines are chasing premium ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past seven days.

After years of battling drug addiction and a series of bizarre court delays, corrupt traffic official Rory Petrus has been sentenced to house arrest and rehabilitation programmes instead of prison.

If an early learning delivery platform focused on home and community-based settings in low-income communities can shift outcomes for children as it goes to scale, it should inform more enabling ...

We need to build a strong foundation in a child’s home language while also developing strong proficiency in English.

Part of the solution might be for the City to continue with its current strategy and for baboon advocates to do the local, political work required to set up City Improvement Districts in ...

The onus isn’t on gun reform advocates to say this shouldn’t have happened – it’s on those who’ve been advocating for the policies that made this possible to join those who advocate for policy that ...