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/ 13 October 2008
Governments around the globe launched a multi-pronged attack on the finance crisis on Monday, with markets enjoying record one-day rises.
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/ 13 October 2008
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has bought a 21% stake in Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley for $9-billion, the companies said on Monday.
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/ 10 October 2008
Global finance chiefs gathered in Washington for crisis talks on Friday as panic spread in global financial markets.
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/ 10 October 2008
A UK woman who celebrated her 105th birthday this week said the secret to long life was celibacy, adding that she imagined sex was a "lot of hassle".
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/ 10 October 2008
SA is "reasonably well insulated" from the global financial crisis despite expecting low export revenue, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says.
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/ 10 October 2008
Pushy, ambitious, bold, Michael Bloomberg’s bid to remain mayor for another four years marks him out as the archetypal New Yorker.
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/ 10 October 2008
A Norwegian politician said on Thursday she would not be seeking re-election after admitting to a large phone bill for calling fortune-tellers.
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/ 10 October 2008
A man was acquitted of drug trafficking after his lawyer told a court it was impossible to walk with a stash of heroin in his underpants.
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/ 10 October 2008
Sri Lanka troops backed by fighter jets have moved deeper into Tamil Tiger territory in the island’s north, killing 39 rebels.
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/ 10 October 2008
Australia’s tourism chiefs have turned to Hollywood for help in promoting the country as a holiday destination after their last campaign failed.
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/ 10 October 2008
Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software.
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/ 10 October 2008
Our readers respond: ANC, Mosiuoa Lekota, Julius Malema and more
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/ 10 October 2008
ON CIRCUIT: Nicolas Cage’s <i>Bangkok Dangerous</i>; <i>The Love Guru</i> and <i>Step Brothers</i>
Former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota electrified the nation on Wednesday when he signalled his intention to form a "congress".
"Black cloud", a mass of polluted air that darkens the skies of the Egyptian capital in October and November, is less severe this year.
There is a legitimate suspicion that Woolmer essentially wrote a rather narrowly focused coaching manual.
Efforts to form a breakaway from the ANC are gaining momentum, but analysts say the new party still needs to recruit nationally recognised leaders.
Johannesburg-based sociologist Yoon Jung Park examines the intriguing problem of Chinese identity in her book about being chinese in South Africa.
Alexia Christie and Trudie Broekmann of attorneys Webber Wentzel provide a guideline for both consumers and suppliers.
Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry, released its first cellphone with a touch-screen on Wednesday, its answer to the popular Apple iPhone.
A top Pentagon official insisted on Wednesday that no country in Africa had been asked to host the new US military command for Africa (Africom).
The world’s only recipient of two full arms in a transplant appeared in public on Wednesday to talk about the success of the procedure.
Russian forces on Wednesday abandoned military positions deep inside Georgia in a major pull-back the Kremlin vowed to complete by midnight.
Afghan and international forces announced on Tuesday they had killed nearly 60 militants as the battle against Talban-led extremists continued.
China on Tuesday declined to release updated figures revealing how many children have been affected by the tainted milk scandal.
A Dubai-based real-estate company said this week it plans to build a multibillion-dollar themed entertainment development in South Africa.
South Korean prosecutors say they have arrested a florist for pruning his rivals’ business by clicking repeatedly on their online advertisements.
World stock markets plunged again on Tuesday as the financial crisis deepened, with governments taking emergency measures to shore up confidence.
Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
Zimbabwe’s MDC renewed a call on Monday for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a fragile power-sharing deal.
Deepening fears about the financial crisis in Europe and doubts about a $700-billion United States rescue sent global stocks plummeting on Monday.
The global financial crisis may have "extremely serious" consequences in developing countries in Africa and Latin America, the IMF said on Monday.