Four of SA’s neighbours are considering breaking away from the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to set up a parallel organisation to ...

Scientists say they have finally sequenced the full human genome, which is made up of nearly 3.06-billion letters

Chinese lawmakers plan to pass legislation this week to retaliate for sanctions imposed by Western governments on Chinese companies and officials.

Married couples in China will for the first time be allowed to have three children, up from two

SA is among 19 countries thought to be most at risk of running out of oxygen as surging Covid cases push supplies to the limit, says a report

The producers of the much-awaited reunion episode of hit 1990s sitcom Friends have been slammed for not including any black celebrities in its guest lineup

Inheritance tax should become a larger slice of government tax revenue after the pandemic, says the rich-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation & ...

The world’s biggest jeweller, Pandora, is switching exclusively to laboratory-made diamonds and will no longer sell mined diamonds

A University of Oxford team has announced a breakthrough malaria vaccine found to be 77% effective

Health minister Zweli Mkhize assured the Western Cape it needn't buy its own Covid shots as the national government had secured enough for all provinces to ...

A clinical trial in Britain has found that budesonide, a steroid widely used for asthma, can speed up recovery from Covid and may lower hospital admission rates

A clinical trial in Britain has found that budesonide, a steroid widely used for asthma, can speed up recovery from Covid and may lower hospital admission rates

BMW, Volvo, Google and Samsung are lending their weight to calls for a moratorium on such proposals

Bank of China’s net profit surged almost 70% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period the previous year

UK company directors must justify dividend payments and face the threat of their bonuses being clawed back if they do not act in the interests of customers and ...

A powerful hallucinogenic drug is being trialled as a potential cure for depression for the first time