The first map of the DNA of great white sharks has revealed mutations that protect the animals against cancer and other illnesses

The Western Cape’s agriculture department is using Sentinel-2 Earth observation satellite imaging technology to promote sustainable farming

The next generation of supersonic commercial flights has moved a step closer

Despite growing health fads such as meat-free Mondays and Veganuary, global meat consumption has in fact increased over the past 50 years

One in five young people in Canada either hasn’t heard of the Holocaust or isn’t sure what it is, according to a survey

Inquest into suspected murder of a Rwandan dissident in SA five years ago has been struck from the roll of the Randburg magistrate’s court

According to a report, an Afrikaans-speaking community deep in the Patagonian desert is thriving

SA’s most famous tech billionaire, US-based Elon Musk, may open a Tesla store in this country next year

France MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that bans parents from smacking their children

France is passing a law to return African art looted from its former colonies

A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Indonesia this week had 6kg of plastic in its stomach

Single-use (made to be used once only) once represented carefree modernity but has come to symbolise polluted oceans

The Pan SA Language Board, Focal Points and Newsclip have chosen ‘land expropriation without compensation’ as SA’s word of the year

All eyes will be on how she represents America, after her husband Donald Trump referred to some African countries as ‘shitholes’

The government has been given 24 months to ’rectify the constitutional defects’ that prohibit marijuana use

Lego is trying to eliminate its dependence on petroleum-based plastics and build its toys entirely from plant-based or recycled materials