South African information technology company Dimension Data (Didata) said on Wednesday that agreement has been reached with a black economic empowerment consortium on the transfer of a 25,01% interest in Dimension Data South Africa. The stake has been valued at R380-million.

Moscow was targeted by the third suicide bombing in a week on Tuesday night, when a woman blew herself up at the entrance to a busy metro station, killing 10 people and injuring 51, many of whom were in a critical condition, officials said. The explosion took place at about 8.05pm outside the Ryizhskaya metro station in north-eastern Moscow.

An Islamist group on Tuesday released video footage showing 12 Nepalese workers dying in the worst mass killing of hostages since Sunni Islamist extremists embarked on a spree of kidnappings in April. News of the killings overshadowed international efforts to secure the release of two French journalists held by a separate Iraqi group of militants.

At least 16 people were killed and almost 100 injured after Israel’s five-month period of relative peace was shattered on Tuesday with a double suicide bombing on two buses in the southern town of Beersheba. The bombings, which came 15 seconds apart and killed a three-year-old boy, 10 women and five men, were claimed by Hamas as a revenge attack for Israel’s assassination of its leaders Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi earlier this year.