A new Afrikaans children's book sees an alien head to earth, not for world domination but for milk tart. Here's why it's a must-read for kids.

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South Africa's cricket evolution reflects lessons learned from India, with players like Aiden Markram and Marco Jansen shaping a multi-format future.

For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that ...

The developers of cult classic horror shooter Clive Barker's Undying tell us how Steven Spielberg, Clive Barker, and Robert ...

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Five years ago, I visited the border town of McAllen, Texas and saw the chaos. A caravan of more migrants than I could count ...

Since television’s earliest days, storytellers have turned to time travel TV as one of the medium’s most flexible dramatic devices—a way to revisit history, imagine the future and test the ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...