A passenger aboard a Newark, New Jersey-bound American Airlines flight was duct-taped to his seat on Thursday and later arrested after allegedly hurling racial slurs at staff and fighting with another man. The passenger was “thrashing around” in his seat as the flight crew and other passengers tried to restrain him at the rear of…
ETS Prime Cloud provides local data residency, high-performance infrastructure and secure hosting. (Image source: 123RF) Businesses today are facing pressure from multiple areas. Notably, compliance challenges relating to local laws – like POPIA – and issues around data sovereignty impact on many organisations’ decisions about when or whether to move to the cloud. While enterprises…
Hydropower continues to dominate large-scale investments in Nepal, and some climate activists say the funding has continued despite known disaster risks. The Upper Trishuli-1 project, which has been all but destroyed after last week’s floods, was one of Nepal’s largest foreign direct investment ventures, valued at about $647m. Its backers include the Asian Development Bank…
Discovery’s head office in Sandton. Image: Boogertman and Partners Discovery is buying its way deeper into US health technology. On 1 September, two months after its financial year ended and two days before it reported annual results, the group’s wholly owned US subsidiary Vitality Group International acquired 100% of Icario Holdco, a US healthcare services…
Africa’s industrial moment is not waiting for more money. It is waiting for the right kind — structured correctly, sequenced intelligently, and aimed at the right stage of a project’s life. Afreximbank’s Oluranti Doherty on why the continent’s financing problem is really a coordination problem. Why this series exists Our new editorial initiative seeks to…
President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Russia Saturday, Russian news outlets reported, as part of a trip where they are expected to present a new proposal to end the war in Ukraine. Mr. Trump told reporters on Friday he had sent the envoys with a proposal to end the conflict, which…
RugOne, a specialized subsidiary of rugged device manufacturer Ulefone, has officially introduced the Xsnap 7 Pro at IFA 2026 in Berlin. Setting itself apart from conventional smartphone form factors, the rugged handset features a detachable, magnetic camera module engineered to double as an independent action camera. Weighing just 39 grams, the compact, cube-shaped module captures…
United States President Donald Trump says Washington may strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”, in just the latest in a series of threats he has made against the heavily fortified underground site located next to the bombed-out Natanz enrichment complex. Just hours after he made that threat, an Iranian oil tanker off Kharg Island was…
Tech personality Stafford Masie. (Source: Stafford Masie) As three suspended senior figures at Africa Bitcoin Corporation (ABC) gear up to fight a Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) enforcement order, well-known tech personality Stafford Masie has stepped into the CEO role. With the executives suspended, Masie, an existing ABC executive director, director of Bitcoin strategy and…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi on July 20, 2026 in Rome, Italy. Simona Granati | Corbis News | Getty Images Greater political stability under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government has boosted Italy’s appeal in the eyes of international investors, but the country’s former leaders say more needs to be done. Speaking to…
