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.

The current leadership of the JSE deserve some recognition for the way they’ve reimagined the role of the bourse in South Africa.

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 ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

I can’t think of a more glaring example of how AI should not be used than what Apple is doing here with BBC headlines, summaries and notifications.

When a pantry item is mysteriously MIA, switch to Plan B. Here’s how the planned roasted onion risotto turned into roasted onion and carrot lasagne.

Polokwane's mayor, Justice Minister Thembi Simelane's lavish lifestyle raised serious questions. With designer shopping sprees and cash property purchases, her expenses far exceeded her official ...

The conflict has catalysed the region’s illicit markets as people turn to smuggling networks for essential goods.

An Australian student missing for two weeks near the country's tallest mountain was found on Wednesday, after surviving by foraging for berries, drinking water from a creek and finding two muesli bars ...