The Sony World Photography Awards returns to celebrate contemporary photography and the ways the arts reflect the world around us. Here is a selection of the images from the winners of this year's ...

A Portuguese court ruled that 11 major banks won’t have to pay €225 million in fines for mortgage collusion, as the statute of limitations expired. Despite being convicted of distorting competition, ...

Energy and tech stocks surge, gold hits dizzying heights, and everyone eagerly awaits Fed Chair Powell's take on whether the trade party will continue or fizzle out.

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Botswana's economy is set to grow 3.3% in 2025, rebounding from last year's contraction, driven by a recovering diamond market. Finance Minister Ndaba Gaolathe emphasized the need to diversify beyond ...

A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Hamas on Monday announced it would stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice over what the Palestinian militant group called Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, raising the ...

Russia’s point man for relations with the US said on Monday that all of President Vladimir Putin’s conditions must be met in full before the war in Ukraine can end, suggesting Moscow is playing ...

Despite costing R657m to construct so far, the Xonxa Dam near Komani in the Eastern Cape has provided water for only six months, from December 2020 to May 2021.

For the likes of Trump and Musk, human misfortune appears as if it is mere collateral damage in the longer-term effort to engineer their version of sustainable Western civilisation, on Earth as it ...

My leader, these are fine promises wrapped in ribbons of innovation, but will they land or join the growing graveyard of Sona pledges past?

One of the few things I abhor in life is bullying of any kind. It’s something with which I have never been able to coexist and I find it repugnant.