Japanese stocks rose along with US equity futures after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point and signalled further easing in the months ahead. Japan’s Topix and Nikkei 225 ...

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a criminal sexual act on Wednesday, nearly five months after the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul's sex crimes conviction in New York was overturned.

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways.

Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south in the country's deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly ...

Governments globally are grappling with tax systems to protect local industries from supposedly affordable fast fashion. The volumes of clothing and other goods being moved around the world have ...

Farmers in the Mpumalanga Highveld are resisting a plan to drill the area in search of gas. One farmer warned, ‘When the wetlands and pans have been polluted and nothing will grow here any more, it ...

ANC leaders have been occupied with memorial services for Pravin Gordhan, but they still have major political decisions to make — ones that could determine the future of the national coalition. In ...

If there was any legitimate argument that the Reserve Bank should be nationalised, it is frankly negated by the stellar performance of the monetary authorities over the past four years. We sit today ...

WildEarth’s twice daily live-streamed drives through reserves like Sabi Sand, Pridelands and Phinda were a tonic for millions of housebound nature lovers during the Covid lockdown.

African states need to start working more closely with their neighbours, both in terms of purchasing disaster supplies as well as in responding to emergencies. Many African countries are very small, ...

The Youth Employment Service is delighted to announce the inaugural YES Top 35 Under 35 Awards, proudly presented by Daily Maverick ...

In its last two annual reports, Investec announced financial provisions to cover potential ‘outflows’, including penalties arising from its involvement in allegedly fraudulent ‘cum-ex’ transactions, ...