4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (276+ words) Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million (R561 million) to settle a UK High Court group action brought by roughly 12,000 users, according to IBTimes UK. The claimants alleged the LGBTQIA+ dating app shared highly sensitive personal data, including HIV-related information…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (382+ words) Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Duke of York and current royal pariah, has been accused of committing sex crimes in the United States by a sitting member of the US House of Representatives in remarks made under the legal…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (441+ words) The Nepal flood story has moved from frightening to properly grim in less than a day, with at least four South Africans still listed among the people missing after flash floods tore through the Nepal-Tibet border region. Yesterday, the early…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (428+ words) Sadly, the death of a number of elephants has been recorded in the Amboseli National Park and surrounding ecosystem, which started in late June. Since then, a total of 18 have been found deceased in Kenya. At first, this was something…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (268+ words) Monday, August 24, 2026 South Africa’s auto-parts sector has lost 7 500 jobs in the past three years as local carmakers cut production. NAACAM, the industry body that represents automotive component manufacturers, made the submission to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, describing…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (296+ words) Monday, August 24, 2026 Professional athletes better watch their backs, because the robots are coming for their gigs. In fact, a humanoid robot called Lightning taking part in the second-ever World Humanoid Robot Games managed to run the 100-metre in 9.32 seconds, ⁠beating…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (410+ words) Friday, August 21, 2026 Clément Vandenkerckhove, 26, spent years selling cars and reportedly waiting tables, with no public claim to fame. However, that changed quietly in February when a Ghent town hall ceremony made him the legally recognised son of Prince Laurent, younger…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (620+ words) Eight weeks after a parcel bomb tore through the entrance of one of Monaco’s most expensive apartment blocks, the woman accused of planting it is dead, two men are in custody over her killing, and the question of who ordered…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (521+ words) South African parents do not need a California court to tell them that Instagram can swallow a teenager’s evening whole. What they should watch now is whether a US judge forces Meta Platforms, Inc. to change the mechanism behind that…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (367+ words) 2 056 humanoid robots are heading to Beijing, China, to take part in the second World Humanoid Robot Games between 22 and 26 August. While it might be a much shorter event than the Olympics Games on which it is based, it will still…...