The study site, Kurukop, is in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in the Nama Karoo region, where the geological formation began to accumulate from about 300 million years ago, before the breakup ...

As global bond markets take a breather from their recent panic, investors are left wondering if the UK’s economic woes and Trump’s national emergency plans will reignite the selloff, while stocks ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran on Wednesday and returned home, three weeks after she was detained in Tehran during a reporting trip.

Greenland may become independent if its residents want, but is unlikely to become a US state, Denmark's foreign minister said on Wednesday after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out ...

Crews battling multiple wildfires that raged across Los Angeles on Wednesday were up against a near-perfect storm: intense wind, low humidity and, most troubling for residents, inadequate supplies of ...

A Russian guided bomb attack on Wednesday killed at least 13 people and injured 29 others in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, said authorities, adding that the number of victims could rise ...

Shell will write down around $400-million over an oil discovery offshore Namibia that it deemed commercially unviable in a blow to the southern African country's efforts to become a crude producer.

Federal Reserve officials agreed that inflation is likely to continue to slow this year, but also saw a rising risk that price pressures may remain sticky as policymakers began wrestling with the ...

Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving ...

The Ethekwini (Durban) municipality has banned swimming at two major tourist beaches after numerous, sand-coated “beach balls” washed up along the Umhlanga beachfront.

His wounded reputation at home — it’s much better abroad, as is often the way — will take further hits in the coming months, as his party elects a new leader and whoever becomes Canada’s next prime ...

The solutions to SA’s manufacturing decline are actually pretty obvious: the investment environment is soured by labour legislation which massively loads the dice on the side of trade unions; new ...