SA men challenged to raise awareness on breast cancer

Delhi's biggest coal power plant was set to shut down Monday as a new emergency plan to improve air quality in one of the world's most polluted cities came into force, Indian officials said.

The Tshwane Emergency Services have resumed their search for two bodies in Pretoria's Apies River.

Children are being swamped by the visual equivalent of "pizza and sweets" in "a digital Wild Wild West", some of the world's top kids television programme makers have warned.

Cancer patients have been urged to use the negative thoughts to strengthen their cancer recovery journey. That's the message from Durban based cancer support group, Pink Phoenix Cancer Foundation.

People have been urged to travel with caution after flooding was reported in several parts of Gauteng, and severe thunderstorms and downpours are expected to continue across the country on Sunday.

The organisers of the 10th edition of the continent’s premier defence exhibition held at Waterkloof Air Force Base from 19 – 23 September, have praised it as a success which attracted over 30-thousand visitors on the three trade days and over 55-thousand aviation enthusiasts to the two-day airshow . 

Hurricane Leslie is expected to hit the Iberian Peninsula within hours, authorities said on Saturday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains days after deadly floods on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

A shortage of vaccines against Foot and Mouth disease has stopped the routine inoculation of cattle in the Mopane District of Limpopo.

Less than 1% of South Africa's vast coastline has been declared Marine Protected Areas or MPA's.

City of Tshwane says it has sent emergency services to several parts of the north of Pretoria after a severe hail storm damaged houses, leaving  residents

Two people have been arrested during one of the biggest abalone busts in Cape Town this year.

A plumber working for the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola, the health ministry said on Friday, the first case of a UN worker contracting the disease during the current outbreak.

The South African Weather Service has warned of severe thunderstorms from Friday night and into the weekend in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.

Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world's leading social network disclosed late last month.

Aid agencies said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo could be tipping into a wider crisis as the number of new cases spiked and violence grounded health workers for a second time.

Canada will soon become the second country in the world to legalize cannabis with the provinces left to work out the details of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's landmark measure.

Stop Stockouts Project, which monitors and reports on medicine shortages, says they're concerned that there's also a shortage of other lifesaving medication supplies at state health facilities.

Google must be more forthcoming with the public and lawmakers if the company is to maintain or regain the trust of the users of its services.

UNICEF, says one in five children under the age of 15 is overweight globally.

More people die of diabetes than HIV, TB and Malaria combined, according to an endocrinologist, Dr Sundeep Ruder.

In response to the surge in ivory poaching in Africa, where the elephant population fell by around 20 percent between 2006 and 2015, philanthropists have developed EarthRanger, which aggregates remote sensor readings of animal movements, trackers on radios and vehicles, camera trap photos among other things.

The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change.

Agriculture organisation (AgriSA) has called on young people to join the farming sector in order to ensure food security for the country. AgriSA described it as a  concerning issue that farming is dominated by seniors.

Limpopo Agriculture MEC Basikopo Makamu has appealed to community members to take their domestic animals for vaccination to prevent them from infecting humans with rabies.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday unveiled the third edition of its Pixel smartphone, a Google Home smart speaker with a display and its first tablet computer as it makes a come-from-behind push into hardware.

Amazon realized that the recruitment system was not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.

Mental health disorders are on the rise in every country in the world and could cost the global economy up to $16 trillion between 2010 and 2030.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says his department will continue implementing a new Information and Technology system at the pharmaceutical depot in Limpopo, despite reported technical problems.

Google is dropping out of the bidding for a huge Pentagon cloud computing contract that could be worth up to $10 billion, saying the deal would be inconsistent with its principles.

EU ministers battled Tuesday over the extent of emission cuts to be imposed on carmakers, in the wake of a warning by UN experts on the dangers of global warming.