Facebook has raised $500m from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, in a deal that values the company at $5-billion.
African mediators left Côte d’Ivoire without a breakthrough in the West African nation’s presidential vote crisis.
The abundance of four common species of bumblebees in the United States has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades.
More than 98% of candidates passed this year’s National Senior Certificate examination conducted by the Independent Examinations Board.
A grimly determined Gautam Gambhir and a serene Sachin Tendulkar took India to 142 for two at stumps on the second day of the deciding third Test.
About 255 000 Zimbabweans took advantage of the government’s special dispensation to legalise their stay in SA, a government spokesperson said.
More than 1 000 miners will down tools at the Arnot Exarro coal mine in Mpumalanga to mourn the death of a worker.
The Free State minister caught driving at 235km/h was found guilty of reckless and negligent driving in court on Monday, police said.
South Korea said on Monday it was open to dialogue with Pyongyang if the North was ready to dismantle its nuclear facilities.
Jacques Kallis struck a masterful century on Monday on the second day of the deciding third Test against India at Newlands.