Four SpaceX tourists returned to Earth safely, concluding the first orbital mission ever with no professional astronauts on board.

The vote comes in the wake of a crackdown on the opposition with Russian authorities jailing Putin's foe Alexei Navalny.

Joburg Mayor Jolidee Matongo had been participating in a local government voter registration drive in Soweto, alongside Ramaphosa.

Ezmarai Ahmadi was wrongly identified as an Islamic State militant by US intelligence, which tracked his white Toyota for eight hours on August 29 before targeting the car with a missile, killing seven children and three adults.

"Filmmaker Mario Camus passed away in Santander," Spain's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said in a posting on social media.

The statement from the ruling council came in defiance of international pressure for Conde's release and a six-month timetable for elections after a coup on September 5 sparked global condemnation.

The former strongman had left office in April 2019 under pressure from the military, following weeks of demonstrations over his bid to run for a fifth term in office.

The great mediaeval edifice survived the inferno on April 15, 2019, but the spire collapsed and much of the roof was destroyed.

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers have ordered that only boys and male teachers may return to the classroom on Saturday.

The mayor of Del Rio, Texas has declared a state of emergency after more than 10,000 undocumented migrants poured into the city.

The figure would shatter the temperature targets of the Paris climate agreement, which aimed for warming well below 2C and preferably capped at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The meeting between Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and Doumbouya came after a regional summit on Thursday, which urged swift elections and sanctioned Guinea's putschists.

After a slow start, France now has one of the world's highest vaccination rates, with close to 90% of adults in the country of 67 million people having received one or two vaccine doses.

While the opposition has yet to make major national inroads against the historic party that brought Nelson Mandela to power in 1994, the ANC has been hemorrhaging votes over the years and stands to lose even more in the local elections, analysts and polls predict.

The World Health Organization says clinical trials are underway to evaluate eight nasal spray vaccines that target COVID-19.

It is convention for senior members of the royal family to ask that their will remain private.

The move is a massive setback to Pakistan, which has been trying to revive tours by foreign sides after home internationals were suspended in the aftermath of a terror attack on the Sri Lankan side in 2009.

Elena was 'startled' by the arrival of a male white rhino named Limpopo at the Wildlands zoo in the eastern city of Emmen near the German border.