Giorno: 18 Gennaio 2023

Liz Truss Jenga-style podium cost taxpayers ?4,175

Read More A Jenga-style podium used by Liz Truss in her short-lived stint as prime minister cost taxpayers ?4,175, it has emerged. The lectern was compared to a Jenga tower, from the board game that results in total collapse, as it featured pieces of wood that resembled Jenga blocks ready to topple. It was specially […]

Il ministro degli interni ucraino Denys Monastyrskyi e tre bambini sono tra le 18 vittime di un incidente di elicottero vicino a Kiev

Read More  Il ministro degli Interni ucraino Denys Monastyrskyi è morto questa mattina quando il suo elicottero si è schiantato vicino ad un asilo a Brovary, nella regione di Kiev. Secondo le prime informazioni emerse si stava dirigendo verso “zone calde” del conflitto. Tra le vittime anche il suo vice Yevhen Yenin e il segretario di […]

Csm, input dal Colle: domani a sorpresa si vota per l’elezione di Giuffrè, candidato di FdI, al posto di Valentino

Read More A sorpresa sarà votato già domani l’ultimo componente mancante dei laici del Csm. A partire dalle 14.30. In anticipo quindi rispetto all’ipotesi che si andasse a martedì prossimo.  In lizza ci sarà solo il candidato di Fratelli d’Italia Felice Giuffè che ha preso il posto di Giuseppe Valentino, in quota Fratelli d’Italia, costretto a […]

IEB candidates slay 2022 matric year with 98.4% pass rate

Read More Independent Examinations Board (IEB) matric candidates have obtained a 98.42% pass rate with 89.32% achieving bachelor’s passes. The 2022 pass rate is slightly higher than that of 2021, which was 98.39%.  The chief executive of IEB, Anne Oberholzer, applauded the performance of the class of 2022, highlighting that the learners were the class […]

Social media booms as recession looms: TikTok leads in business-to-business marketing

Read More Meltwater launched a new report on Tuesday 17 January comparing local trends to global trends and revealing that the importance of social media is increasing among organisations due to global economic uncertainty. With brand awareness a priority, more than half of the survey respondents (52%) stated that economic uncertainty had made social media […]

Doctor accused of defrauding FNB and Sasol of R420m

Read More Medical doctor Mahendren Munsamy, accused of defrauding First National Bank and Sasol of R420 million through a cross-border petroleum syndicate, is fighting for bail in a separate R7 million fraud case Medical doctor Mahendren Munsamy, accused of defrauding First National Bank and Sasol of R420 million through a cross-border petroleum syndicate, is fighting […]

Remembering fashion icon Andre Leon Talley

Read More A year after his death on 18 January 2021 at the age of 73, André Leon Talley, remains a force of fashion and style. For years, Talley was the only person of colour in the upper echelons of fashion journalism, but his story of surviving the fashion battlefield has influenced many of fashion’s […]

UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’

Read More The head of the United Nations has accused the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies of refusing to abandon a business model at odds with human survival despite knowingly putting the world on course for a climate meltdown decades ago. Speaking at the Davos summit of business and political leaders, the UN secretary general, […]

Israel’s Christian population grows as church numbers dwindle in region

JERUSALEM — While the plight of Christians in the region has decreased drastically, the population of Israeli Christians grew by 2%, according to a report released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in December. The publication of the new data coincided with Christmas and showed roughly 185,000 Christians live in Israel and make up […]

Inflation eases for a second month

Read More Inflation cooled slightly in December, in line with expectations by economists, who forecast that prices would continue to retreat. According to data released by Statistics South Africa on Wednesday, consumer price inflation (CPI) fell to 7.2% year-on-year in December, down from 7.4% the previous month.  The main drivers of inflation were transport, food […]