Authorities offer relief as blizzards continue to ravage China
NASA said on Friday it was weighing an option to buy two additional astronaut seats aboard a Russian rocket as a contingency plan against further delays in the launch systems being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boeing Co.
Peruvian archaeologists discovered an Incan tomb in the north of the country where an elite member of the pre-Columbian empire was buried, one of the investigators announced Friday.
In a remote island outpost on the edge of the Antarctic, hundreds of miles from the southern tip of Chile, scientists at a research base are scouring the ice for clues about everything from climate change to cures for cancer.
The Mangaung Metro municipality in Bloemfontein has activated its Joint Operation Committee to deal with challenges caused by recent heavy rains.
More than a hundred children in Democratic Republic of Congo have died of measles since the start of the year, an outbreak that has added to deadly epidemics of cholera and Ebola, the UN said on Wednesday.
Alibaba’s interest on German company Metro comes after rival Tencent last year signed a partnership deal with France’s Carrefour.
Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said Thursday in response to media reports of the security tactic.
Emergency services departments in the northern parts of the country are on high alert after the South African Weather Service issued a warning of heavy rains and localised flooding earlier on Thursday.
The South African Weather Service says the hot and dry condition that Cape Town is currently experiencing is expected to persist into Friday.
Officials involved in the recovery operation at the Gloria Coal Mine in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, say high levels of methane gas underground pose the risk of another explosion.
Emergency services personnel across Gauteng have been put on high alert following warnings of heavy rainfall which could led to flash floods.
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it would spend more than $13 billion on data centers. With the new investment Google will now be in 24 out of the 50 states in the US.
Illicit software distributors have found ways to use digital certificates to get access to a program Apple introduced to let corporations distribute business apps to their employees without going through Apple’s tightly controlled App Store.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) says 2019's celebration of World Radio Day, underscores the medium's ability to encourage understanding and foster new perspectives.
Consumers in areas affected by loadshedding in and around Pretoria have resorted to using alternative energy supplies.
California is bracing for its wet test storm of the winter as the "Pineapple Express" is set to dump upto 8 inches (20 cm) of rain and 8 feet (2.44 m) of snow on areas of the state, raising risks of flooding and mudslides, meteorologists said.
Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday that Silicon Valley companies, including his own, have not done enough to protect victims of online abuse, calling it a “huge fail.”
The number of women taking up chemistry as a career is on the increase in South Africa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country's health system is at a tipping point and something should be done urgently to save it from collapse.
The minister of Communications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, says that the Ministry of Communications has been mandated to spearhead and lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution, working with other stakeholders within and outside government. Minister Ndabeni-Abrahams participated in a meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services earlier on Tuesday. This was the first engagement between […]
Pelononi and Universitas hospitals in the Free State have received a shot in the arm with a donation of surgical equipment worth R500 000 from the Medi-Clinic Southern Africa.
A new study reveals that South African township learners struggle with science because of poor reading and comprehension skills.
Minister of Science and Technology Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane says women must not shy away science, technology and mathematics.
The number of young Americans using e-cigarettes grew by 1.5 million in 2018, undermining years of progress in reducing youth smoking, health authorities said Monday.
The Western Cape Department of Local Government and Environmental Affairs has urged residents in the province to continue using water sparingly, even if the water situation is better than this time last year.
Scientists are hoping artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify and rescue child victims of sex trafficking via an app and more than a million crowdsourced pictures of hotel rooms.
The City of Paris is suing Airbnb for publishing 1,000 illegal rentals adverts, which could cost the American rental website more than 12.5 million euros ($14 million), the mayor of Paris told a newspaper in an interview published on Sunday. Under French law, home owners in Paris can rent out their places on short-term rental […]
Climate change is the top security concern in a poll conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre, followed by Islamist terrorism and cyber-attacks while respondents in a growing number of countries worried about the power and influence of the United States.
Rico has lived with HIV for almost a decade, confiding in only a small number of people in socially conservative Singapore, fearful of the reaction.
The community of Mossel Bay in the Western Cape has rallied around a young patient who was recently diagnosed with cancer.
