At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

Forensic service workers carry remains in blue body bags during an operation to rescue miners from below ground ...

A  reader says if the city is to grow and provide homes for an increased population, the infrastructure must be put in place ...

Shocking footage shows a tragic dog with her ribs sticking out after her cruel owner left her starving and in pain for more than THREE MONTHS. Colleen Rathbone, 31, from Willenhall, UK, was sentenced ...

This fortnight 189 years ago naturalist Charles Darwin went to Bathurst, lamenting how “rancorously divided into parties” we ...

Cillian Murphy isn’t exactly the most well-known actor working today, but that doesn’t make him any less of an exceptional ...

The announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza after 15 hellish months is welcome. However, for the hundreds of thousands whose loved ones were killed, or who were permanently maimed, orphaned or displaced ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale ...

A MUM was savagely killed by a pack of starving dogs who tore her body apart, as neighbours heard her harrowing screams.

One group says more than 100 have died and 500 others are still trapped, with many ill and starving. It's not clear exactly how long the miners have been underground near the town of Stilfontein ...