January 2016 has continued a trend of rapid global warming, setting the record for the hottest first month of the year in the history books.
Children exposed to air pollution in the womb have a 25% greater chance of developing asthma before the age of five, according to new research.
After enduring horrific ordeals, the women and girls freed from Boko Haram return to families and communities who reject them, a report has found.
The first sitting of the inquiry has revealed that deadlines were missed, bolts were missing and concerns about alignment had been raised.
Mathare slum in Kenya has been dependent on costly and possibly unsafe water from vendors – but innovative new water ATMs may end all that.
Rihanna has made us wait a maddening four years between albums and while Anti is worthy of a recommendation, it’s hardly earth-shattering stuff.
Reinstating charges against Glynnis Breytenbach and Johan Booysen as the DA awaits a ruling regarding Nomgcobo Jiba could be the NPA’s downfall.
Because pig flesh is similar to that of humans, how their corpses decay on land and in the sea can help forensic pathologists.
The Deputy director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, on why the Zika virus’s potential threat to Africa is different from Ebola.
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