2+ hour, 16+ min ago The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. in the township of Bekkersdal which is located 46 kilometers (28 miles) west of Johannesburg. It is the second mass shooting to happen in South Africa in three weeks. About 12 unknown suspects in a white mini-bus and…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago Elephants in Borneo's rainforest aren't just being poached'they're being decapitated. As the New York Times reports, Malaysian wildlife officials say at least 13 endangered Bornean elephants have been killed for their ivory since July 2024 along a roughly 150-mile stretch of highway…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said. The incident occurred just before 1am in the township…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago Penguins in one corner of Argentina now have a new land-based threat to worry about: pumas. A study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds that in Monte Leon National Park in Argentine Patagonia, pumas are increasingly…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple gunmen in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 12 people dead, police said. The victims included three children aged 3, 12, and 16. Another 13 people were wounded and being treated in…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago Efforts are intensifying to save Africa's only penguin species after a new study documented the starvation deaths of more than 60,000 birds due to a sharp drop in sardine numbers. Researchers found that more than 95% of the African penguins in two…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago Another 14 people were wounded and taken to the hospital, according to a statement from the South African Police Services. Police didn't give details on the ages of those who were injured or their conditions. The shooting happened at a bar…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 11 people dead, police said. The victims included three children. Another 14 people were wounded and taken to the hospital, according…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa were found guilty of murder Tuesday in the 1987 killing of activist and student leader Caiphus Nyoka. Nyoka's fatal shooting at his family home near Johannesburg during the period of white minority rule…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago Nyoka's fatal shooting at his family home near Johannesburg during the period of white minority rule was one of many alleged abuses by apartheid police that went unpunished for decades. Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander, who prosecutors said are both…...