Japanese electronics giant Hitachi said Monday it has launched a company combining its hard disk drive operations with those of US counterpart IBM to boost global competitiveness.
Shares in Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton plunged on Monday after the company announced the surprise resignation of chief executive Brian Gilbertson after just six months in the job.
President Thabo Mbeki will interrupt his leave to go to the African National Congress’ headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday to discuss a looming legislative crisis in Kwazulu-Natal with the party’s leadership.
Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was fighting for his political life last night as the ruling party considered dumping him and selecting one of his rivals to lead it in elections in April.
Seven years after the action was filed, a trial may be starting this week on a lawsuit claiming cigarette makers plotted to get smokers addicted and keep them hooked.
Ford Motor Co. officials introduced several futuristic vehicles using descriptions that surely don’t harken back to the company’s founding a century ago: ”sexy,” ”bat out of hell,” and ”automotive Swiss army knife.”
Dual suicide bombings in the heart of Tel Aviv killed at least 23 people last night, many of them believed to be migrant workers from Africa, eastern Europe and the Philippines.
The UFO sect inspired by a 4ft high extra-terrestrial with almond eyes and olive skin claimed yesterday that three more cloned babies would be born by February.
Road accidents had claimed the lives of 1 204 people in South Africa since December 1, Arrive Alive reported on Sunday. However, the figure was expected to rise as some reports from remote police stations were still outstanding.
Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study