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Brighton have third bid accepted by Tottenham and will pay club record £46m for highly-rated young defender Luka Vuskovic

Crowds and officials expected to meet returning team at OR Tambo Airport

Vitor Pereira is poised to leave Nottingham Forest with the club ready to appoint former Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner as his successor.

South African legal artificial intelligence startup Anvaya has clinched the top prize at the South African chapter of the Start-up World Cup, earning a place at the competition’s global final in Silicon Valley. The Start-up World Cup, hosted by Pegasus Tech Ventures, is one of the most competitive global platforms for emerging tech startups. With […]

Alphabet’s Google and UK actor Idris Elba will fund access to artificial intelligence tools for African creators, aiming to help them produce high-quality content faster and more cheaply. The actor’s Elba Hope Foundation and Google will pay for access to Google’s flagship Gemini AI assistant and other digital products for about 100,000 creators in Nigeria, […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africa and the wider African continent to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies, warning that hesitation will leave nations trailing in the global digital race. Delivering the keynote at the first Google Cloud Summit on African soil, held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday, Ramaphosa […]

Visa today outlined a series of AI, stablecoin, and token capabilities designed to help clients across the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) region participate in the next generation of commerce. Ahead of the Visa Payments Forum, taking place in Paris on July 1, Visa shared how two foundational shifts — artificial […]

Thousands of worshippers attended a ceremony in the Swiss Alps as part of the breakaway Society of Saint Pius X.

Riad Bouchaker denied attempting to murder three children and assaulting four other people on 23 November 2023.

The fire broke out in the 10-storey block in the Linkeroever district of the Belgian city.

More than one million people took to the streets of Mexico City on Tuesday to mark the country’s win over Ecuador.

Sources inside the Egypt camp say Mohamed Salah is winning his race to overcome a hamstring injury and play in Friday’s last-32 game in Dallas.

The Amnesty report adds to evidence of atrocities in el-Fasher, which the UN says bore the hallmarks of genocide.

DR Congo’s run at the 2026 World Cup comes 52 years on from both their disastrous debut at the finals and one of sport’s greatest occasions held in Kinshasa.

The proposed changes agreed by a majority of MPs sparked protests outside parliament.

US President Donald Trump made more than $1.4 bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025.

President Ramaphosa made an announcement regarding changes to his Cabinet on Monday.

Willie Aucamp has been appointed as the Minister of Agriculture.

IMC says the peaceful conduct reflects the strength of South Africa’s democracy.

Tuesday’s mass protests on immigration are the culmination of over 26 years of protest.

Wales squad settle dispute with the Welsh Rugby Union over match fees three days before their Nations Championship opener with Fiji.

The Women’s Tennis Association is ending its partnership with Saudi Arabia to host the season-ending Finals a year early, with the tournament to move to Indian Wells.

With just over a year until the World Cup, injury-hit Ireland look to begin the inaugural Nations Championship with victories over Australia, Japan and New Zealand.

Relebohile Mofokeng has completed his dream move from Orlando Pirates to Royale Union Saint-Gilloise in a deal worth around R56 million.

Unions pleased with rise above forecast inflation but concerned nearly a third of it will come from school budgets

UK politics live – latest updates

Teachers in England will receive a 3.5% pay rise from September and a further 3% next year, with extra school funding to meet most but not all of the higher wage bill, the government has announced.

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said...

Minister and MPs have raised concerns that his ‘poisoned chalice’ plan will take cash from much-needed road projects

Minister and MP ‘furious’ over cuts to road projects to fund defence plan

Dan Sabbagh is the Guardian’s defence and security editor.

Andy Burnham is a “true patriot” who will provide the money needed to maintain Britain’s security when he becomes prime minister, the new...

Schools will need to fund some of the rise, which unions say will further stretch existing budgets.

One of Cape Town’s longest-running Chinese restaurants has reached the end of an era, with Tai Ping Chinese Restaurant in Newlands closing its sit-down dining section after 44 years in business.

Monique Bingham is being honoured in South Africa for her deep connection with house music.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed that physical disc production for new PlayStation games will stop in January 2028, with all new titles moving to digital-only release thereafter.

Ramaphosa positioned AI as both a development imperative and a survival tool.

A common outcome of poor financial literacy is over-indebtedness.

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

Every executive eventually faces a quiet danger: the comfort of consensus. Teams that work closely together, share the same incentives, and rise through the same culture often begin to think alike. That alignment feels efficient. It is also a liability. When everyone in the room shares the same assumptions, blind spots multiply rather than shrink. […]

Permits are secured but the project has yet to break ground, with finer details of the plan still undisclosed.

Dr Oscar is back with the latest health headlines.

Despite affecting millions of women in the UK, PMOS is still under-diagnosed and inconsistently managed, say experts.

An independent inquiry has found “unacceptable racism and discrimination” is affecting patient safety.