# British doctors say social media ranks alongside smoking as a danger to children. They urged lawmakers to tackle the harm they say excessive screen time is causing to young people. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says it ranks alongside smoking and wearing seatbelts in cars as a unifying force for the medical profession. […]
# Die militêre leier van die Ituri-provinsie in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo vergelyk die stryd om die Ebola-uitbreking hok te slaan met ‘n oorlog waarvoor daar nie genoeg hulpbronne is nie. Johnny Luboya Nkashama het aan die Franse uitsaaier RFI gesê mense in gebiede wat geraak is kry nie genoeg kos nie. Hy bepleit […]
# Die Johannesburg-gebore sangeres Tyla het twee toekennings losgeslaan op die 52ste Amerikaanse musiektoekennings in Las Vegas. Sy het sterre soos Burna Boy en Wizkid geklop toe sy die toekenning vir Beste Afrobeats wen, en haar treffer Chanel is aangewys as Sosiale Liedjie van die Jaar. Tyla is die eerste internasionale kunstenaar wat hierdie toekenning […]
# The military governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province has likened the struggle to contain the current Ebola outbreak to a war they are lacking resources for. Johnny Luboya Nkashama told French broadcaster RFI people in affected areas are not receiving enough food. He calls for a swift response to prevent a […]
# Verskeie mense is dood in ‘n botsing tussen ‘n trein en ‘n skoolvervoer-minibus in Buggenhout, België. Die Vlaamse openbare uitsaaier VRT berig die minibus, met sewe kinders, ‘n toesighouer en die bestuurder was op ‘n spooroorgang in die dorp toe die ongeluk plaasgevind het. Federale polisiewoordvoerder An Berger sê die botsing was kort na […]
# Pous Leo het die duidelikste verskoning van ‘n pous tot nog toe uitgereik oor die Katolieke Kerk se rol in slawerny, en erken vertraging met die veroordeling daarvan en die geskiedkundige betrokkenheid by die regverdiging daarvan. Leo het in sy eerste brief aan biskoppe en die wêreldgemeenskap gesê dit het die kerk eeue geneem […]
# Johannesburg-born singer Tyla has won two awards at the 52nd American Music Awards in Las Vegas. She took home Best Afrobeats, beating stars including Burna Boy and Wizkid, and also won Social Song of the Year for her hit Chanel. The win makes her the first international artist to claim the social song award. […]
# Several people have been killed in a collision between a train and a school minibus in Buggenhout in Belgium. The Flemish public broadcaster VRT reported the minibus with seven children, a chaperone and the driver were on a level crossing in the town when the accident happened. Federal police spokeswoman An Berger said the […]
# Pope Leo issued the clearest apology yet from a pontiff for the Catholic Church’s role in slavery, acknowledging both its delay in condemning the practice and its historic involvement in legitimising it. In a key passage of his first papal letter to bishops and the global public, Leo says the church had taken centuries to […]
