Joburg’s rains are causing flooding and destroying homes

Read More David Maruma was in bed at 2am on Friday when he was jolted awake by his nephew’s frantic banging on the door. For a few moments, the father-of-five thought his family was falling victim to another robbery.  He quickly realised the reason for his nephew’s panicked screams: their home in the Roodepoort suburb […]

Manovra, la Commissione boccia il governo su Pos, pensioni e contante. Gentiloni: “Giudizio positivo con elementi critici”

Read More MILANO – La Commissione europea promuove parzialmente l’impianto della Manovra previsto dal governo con il Documento Programmatico di bilancio ma solleva critiche sul mancato rispetto degli obiettivi di progresso fiscale, a partire dai miglioramento in tema di lotta all’evasione e accelerazione sul fronte dei pagamenti digitali. Nel complesso, la Commissione – nel suo […]

Famed LA Mountain Lion May Have Been Hit by Car

The famous Hollywood-roaming mountain lion known as P-22 is drastically underweight and was probably struck and injured by a car, wildlife experts who conducted a health examination on the big cat say.

Inflation cools to 7.4% year-on-year

Read More Annual consumer inflation eased to 7.4% in November, down from 7.6% the previous month. This is according to data released by Statistics South Africa on Wednesday, which also showed that annual core inflation (which excludes food and fuel prices) was unchanged at 5%. Economists suspect that inflation peaked in July, when it hit […]

UK inflation eases to 10.7% as annual rate of price increases slows

Read More UK inflation declined at the sharpest rate in 16 months to 10.7% in November as the momentum behind the rising cost of clothing and petrol began to ease amid growing fears of a long recession. The drop in the consumer prices index figure was slightly bigger than expected by most City analysts, who […]

A life well lived

Read More  ‘Aids is a scourge that will sweep across Africa. I am emigrating to the United States next month’ Writing an account of your own life, you’d better hope your story is compelling. Your tale must be interesting enough to keep readers entertained. Jan Glazewski, the author of Blood and Silver, needn’t worry about […]

US-Africa Leaders Summit: Washington ‘playing catch-up’ with Russia and China

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. is, according to some analysts, “playing catch-up” with Russia and China again, as President Biden hosts 49 African heads of state and royalty at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington this week. Russia, China and various European countries have all recently either wooed leaders at African summits of their […]