Farmers in the Swiss German-speaking canton of Bern were eating fried potato pancakes called rösti for breakfast as early as the 17th century, possibly earlier. Its origins in the area surrounding ...

The U.S. Senate on Sunday appeared poised to move forward with a measure aimed at reopening the federal government and ending a 40-day shutdown that has sidelined federal workers, delayed food aid and ...

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Two trains crashed in Slovakia on Sunday evening after one ran into the back of the other, injuring dozens of passengers, police and the country's interior minister said.

Three months have passed since we publicly released damning video footage and audio recording Independent Development Trust CEO Tebogo Malaka and her spokesperson Phasha Makgolane offering a R60,000 ...

Young athletes in the Eastern Cape are setting records, but poor stadium standards mean their achievements won’t be officially recognised.

To reach audiences susceptible to authoritarian messaging, defenders of democracy must adapt – creating authentic, locally rooted, emotionally resonant content that can compete on the same terrain.

The director general of Britain's BBC, Tim Davie, and the chief executive of news, Deborah Turness, have resigned following criticism over bias at the corporation, including in the way it edited a ...

The World Bank backs language in a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Gazathat would authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body, according to a letter to ...

Donald Trump’s sudden decision to send no official representative to this year’s G20 meeting has upset planning and is making it impossible to say if the upcoming meeting will have any real impact.

Learners who perpetrate violence must be held accountable using school disciplinary processes. Importantly, schools have a duty to protect all learners, including those who perpetrate violence. This ...

Meet Grant Ngcobo, tourism and youth leader and one of the champions of Jozi My Jozi’s new creative campaign, Babize Bonke, which means “let them all come” in isiZulu. The campaign invites people to ...