An early glimpse of the 21st century automobile came not from Henry Ford or a formula one pit lane, but from the pen of Jules Verne. ”The energy of tomorrow is water broken down into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity,” he wrote in The Mysterious Island in 1874. ”These elements will secure the earth’s power supply for an indefinite period.”

South Africa’s Competition Tribunal on Wednesday denied the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) access to documents previously prepared by the Competition Commission, related to the proposed merger of Anglo American and Kumba Resources.

Bob Dylan’s lyrics have been the subject of university literature courses and countless scholarly discourses, but now they are attracting a different form of attention.

A former US intelligence official who served under the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of lying about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

Some of the great works of English literature could be scrapped from the syllabus of one of Pakistan’s leading universities because of what professors fear is a rising tide of Muslim fundamentalism.

In Mozambique’s pretty port city of Maputo, South Africa is omnipresent. Dominoes Pizza, Steers, Shoprite, even Clear Channel advertising hoardings hold up the signs advertising, well … more South African businesses, the Yellow Pages included.