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Police are investigating the killings in a country with one of the highest femicide rates in the world.Published On 26 Sep 202626 Sep 2026South African police have discovered the body of another woman east of the country’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, bringing the total number of female bodies found near the city since mid-July to 10.Police confirmed the discovery in Thembisa, Ekurhuleni, on Saturday but have not provided any further information. The body was found in the morning, according to the daily newspaper, The Sowetan.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe discovery adds to growing concern over violence against women…

The minister also “condemned Russia’s ongoing and increasingly targeted aggression against the Ukrainian civilian population” and highlighted that, “every month, tens of thousands of Russian soldiers die in a hopeless war of attrition, while the Russian economy continues to collapse,” the official said. The meeting of the German and the Russian ministers — the first of that kind since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — comes amid high tensions between Berlin and Moscow. Earlier this month, the German government accused Russian intelligence services of having orchestrated the attempted drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane at the Leipzig…

A controversial loyalist parade down a nationalist street in Portadown has been temporarily injuncted after a high court judge urged all sides to “step back from the abyss” and take responsible decisions for “the sake of everyone in Northern Ireland”.The ruling was made amid rising fears that a parade could unleash fresh sectarian violence.After a five-hour hearing at a special sitting of the high court, Justice Smyth issued an order temporarily suspending the parade, which was due to take place at 8am on Sunday, until a judicial review application can be fully heard.She has also suspended the determination by the…

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business.Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it.Cloudflare found in June that bots made up more than half of internet traffic. That number just keeps going up as more and more AI companies scrape…

Ravie LakshmananSep 26, 2026Threat Intelligence / Vulnerability Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about an imminent cyber attack. “Kiteworks received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligence authorities indicating that a threat actor may attempt to target some Kiteworks systems,” said Frank Balonis, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Kiteworks. “Out of an abundance of caution, we notified customers directly and recommended a precautionary shutdown window while we continue to work through the matter with federal intelligence authorities.” The company said it…

Privacy has become a practical concern in recent months as developers try to make cryptocurrencies useful for payroll, business payments and everyday spending. Ordinary bitcoin transactions permanently expose amounts and addresses, but once an address is linked to a company or person, other payments associated with it become easier to follow.Bitcoin would store the data but check nothing. (Shaurya Malwa/Coindesk)Ethereum is also reviewing a proposal for a shared private pool that would let people transfer ether and other tokens without publicly revealing payment details. Its authors cite payroll, treasury management and donations among the uses poorly served by fully public…

A room that smells like citrus, pine, or flowers is often associated with cleanliness. Those familiar scents, however, can signal chemical reactions taking place in the air. Research led by Brandon Boor at Purdue University found that fragrance compounds released by both conventional cleaners and botanical essential oil-based products can rapidly react indoors and generate nanoparticles. If inhaled, some of these extremely small particles can penetrate deep into the lungs. The researchers say exposure can be reduced by choosing unscented products, improving ventilation with exhaust fans or open windows, and avoiding devices that generate ozone while scented cleaning products are…

The subject of projections is incredibly complicated and you did a good job of navigating the discussion (‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias, 18 September).However, suggesting that transverse Mercator is inherently biased is not fair (if it is possible to be unfair to an equation) to both the projection and the cartographers.Mercator et al just did the job of creating maps that were useful for the European sailors they were working for. The fact that everyone carried on using it was our laziness and not their bias.The Equal Earth projection is…

Police are investigating suspected illegal hazing after about 30 partially clothed young men covered in food, condiments and other liquids were found recently in the basement of a fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.Madison police said some of the men, whom they described as pledges of a fraternity, had signs of being physically assaulted.Police went to the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity house on Wednesday night after receiving an anonymous tip. Two fraternity members, both 20, were arrested on tentative misdemeanor charges of hazing and disorderly conduct, police said. No formal charges had been filed against them as…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to introduce a new scheme to try to help young people get on the property ladder.The “Your First Home” scheme would be open to first-time buyers in England with a deposit of 2.5%. It would provide them with a loan worth 20% of their new build property’s value to help pay for the purchase.Burnham said people who do not have support from the “bank of mum and dad” are among those the scheme would aim to help.Labour said there would be an initial interest-free period for the equity loan. Further details on the scheme are…