Opinion

Australia and Turkey are both bidding to host COP31 next year and neither is backing down

Battle brews over Australia or Turkey hosting next COP

If no consensus is reached the summit reverts to Bonn, a city in western Germany that hosts the UN's climate secretariat.

14 November 2025

Stuart James Scharnick

Discussion | 29 cases against Stuart Scharnick in KZN

Scharnick is an associate of suspended Deputy Commissioner for Crime Detection, Shadrack Sibiya.

13 November 2025

The forest outside Arslanbob in the Kyrgyz mountains is the world's biggest wild walnut grove

In Kyrgyzstan, world's largest natural walnut forest thins away

Rustling through fallen golden leaves, locals in a forest outside Arslanbob in the Kyrgyz mountains were scurrying for walnuts -- an ancient pastime and economic lifeline for the region.

13 November 2025

G7 foreign ministers hold talks in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada

G7 foreign ministers seek to boost Ukraine war effort

G7 foreign ministers held talks focused on bolstering Ukraine's war effort, as meeting host Canada unveiled new sanctions targeting Russian drone and energy production.

13 November 2025

A general view of the G20 Inequality Committee's Report on global inequalities after it was handed over to South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa by US economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Joseph Stiglitz, at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on November 4, 2025.