Twenty-six inmates escaped from a Brazilian prison in the northwestern state of Acre, with all but one remaining at large, the state prison authority said.

Women activists said the attack on a female neighbourhood watch member in Hanover Park spelt danger for women trying to make a difference.

The bail hearing of a 68-year-old Namibian retired teacher accused of raping his eight-year-old daughter will be heard this week in the Rehoboth Magistrate's Court, south of the capital Windhoek.

A Galeshewe family has been left shocked and puzzled after a family member fatally stabbed another family member at their home in Magoda Street.

Iran said it could quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if European countries refer it to the UN Security Council over a nuclear agreement.

Here is what to look out for next as the proceedings advance in US President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.

Solidarity said government's economic policy was responsible for the "retrenchment bloodbath" in South Africa's manufacturing sector.

The SA Human Rights Commission will represent Enock Mpianzi's family in a lawsuit against Parktown Boys' High and the Department of Basic Education

At Silokoza High School in the Alfred Duma Municipality, the DA found the school had no windows or doors, when it rains, the goats that roam the school property run into these classrooms.

A lesbian couple has asked the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate a wedding venue that has refused to host their ceremony.

The philosophers said democracy, when poorly practised by untrained leaders, drives people to fall in love with dictators. This lesson still holds true today.

Thousands of learners at the Khayalami Primary school received brand new school shirts made from repurposed bed linen donated by Gauteng hotels.

A Cape Town based start-up has partnered with Uber to help financially struggling first-time job seekers reach their job interviews free of charge.

Five people, including one child, were killed in the city of Perm when a hot water pipe exploded and flooded a basement hotel room with boiling water.

An oThongathi police officer was bitten several times when an alleged drug dealer set his dogs on policemen during a raid.

Equatorial Guinea's minister of mines has met with Nigerian investors, bankers and financiers to punt his country's 2020 Year of Investment campaign.