Harvard University is dedicating $250 million of its own funds to support researchers after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze nearly $3 billion in federal grants and contracts in ...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Wednesday that she believes recent levels of illegal immigration could provide a sufficient legal rationale to suspend habeas corpus, the right of ...

A Russian-born scientist and research associate at Harvard University who has been held for months in an immigration detention center in Louisiana has been criminally charged with attempting to ...

A New Zealand government committee on Wednesday recommended three Indigenous lawmakers be temporarily suspended from parliament following the performance of a haka during the reading of a contentious ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

People are realising that the grass isn’t always greener in Cape Town. Rising costs and infrastructure woes are driving many back to Johannesburg, where cheaper housing and stronger job prospects are ...

While Joburg’s leaders make promises to residents, they are simply not in control of what they are doing. The mayor, the ANC’s Dada Morero, has now revealed his obvious desperation and small but ...

My most enduring, most heartfelt thanks goes to the readers of this column who have been fabulously thoughtful, reactive, instructive and supportive of some views which at times have strayed, I’m ...

Chaos broke out at a hearing of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education when EFF MP Sihle Lonzi was forcibly removed after raising concerns about leaked Seta board appointments.

As the 78th Cannes Film Festival begins, the red carpet once again becomes a global stage — not just for film, but also for fashion. New official rules seem to prohibit sheer or revealing dresses, ...

The dual peacebuilding processes are equally important — and can run simultaneously through coordination and sequencing.

When the US grants refugee status to a privileged minority from a democratic country without conflict, it rewrites the South African narrative in the language of grievance politics tailored for the US ...