Pope Francis walks in procession on the occasion of the Amazon synod at the Vatican, 7 October 2019. Pope Francis opened a three-week meeting on preserving the rainforest and ministering to its native ...

The country faces a public health crisis characterised by a poor supply of affordable medicines and too few pharmacies.

The destruction caused by climate change and conflicts has made it more urgent for us to preserve valuable seeds for our survival in an unpredictable world.

Asian markets show resilience amid Wall St slide and Trump’s Fed criticism. Gold hits record, while oil steadies.

While many rivers have become concrete conveyance canals filled with sewage and alien vegetation, the City of Cape Town has reversed a budgetary decision which was set to delay key river ...

As the coal industry gets a US presidential pat on the back, the lifeline for miners battling black lung disease is severed, leaving them gasping for both air and protection amid government cuts.

While the short-term focus is on whether the national coalition will survive, the main axis of our politics may be shifting beyond the current dynamic. It now looks as if our medium-term future could ...

Mkhonto Wesizwe party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu was fraternising with fugitive and self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri in Malawi this weekend, where Bushiri and his wife fled after ...

British American Tobacco has lit up the scoreboard with a 44% rally, proving the power of dividends in tough times. Meanwhile, Remgro seems stuck puffing away at its INAV discount. If ever there was a ...

It was a year for Olympians to shine in the annual Laureus World Sports awards in Madrid, the 25th staging of the ‘Oscars of Sport’.

After spending more than five weeks in hospital for a bout of double pneumonia, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months' rest - but the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics kept working ...

There are three obvious reasons that China has retaliated in a big way to Trump’s tariffs. And the bullying US can’t expect any help from its allies in its battle with Beijing.