Opinion

The fatal water tanker incident in Adams Mission, KwaZulu-Natal, has reignited concerns about South Africa's growing dependence on emergency water deliveries, with experts warning that water tankers have become a substitute for failing municipal infrastructure rather than a temporary solution.

Wildfires supercharged by drought and intense heat tore through the northwestern US city of Spokane, forcing the evacuation of 65,000 people and reducing hundreds of buildings to cinders as firefighters raced Monday to contain the flames.

Donald Trump has made some of the most aggressive public threats about military action of any modern US president. He has walked back many of them, too.

As rescuers recovered the body of climbing legend Nirmal Purja on Sunday, grief rippled hundreds of kilometres away in Nepal at the school where he first displayed the grit that would make him world-famous.

Cyberattacks carried out by two OpenAI artificial intelligence models acting autonomously raise a novel legal question: Who is responsible when AI goes rogue?