At least 36 people were killed by a massive fire Wednesday that engulfed a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong, city leader John Lee said. Another 279 people were reported missing. Lee also said 29 people remained hospitalized. He added that the fire was “coming under control” shortly past midnight. Fire Services Department Director Andy…
Michael Langeveld, HPE. Modern retailers must move faster, think smarter and put customer experience at the centre of everything they do. And in an industry that runs on data, this means bringing information closer to retail operations. Speaking at an HPE and Microsoft retail executive event at Chefs Warehouse in Cape Town yesterday, Stephan Steyn,…
Remember walking into a grocery store 15 years ago? You’d see a mix of people at the till, some with cash pulled from purses or wallets, others with cheques or debit cards, often leading to clunky delays at checkout. There was no tap-to-pay, no mobile wallets and no seamless apps linking bank accounts to phone…
Digital transformation has become the corporate mantra of the decade. It’s in every strategy deck, every conference keynote and every tech vendor pitch. But after years of chasing innovation, many organisations are waking up to the same uncomfortable reality: despite the buzz, they’re not all that transformed. The reason? A lack of enablement. “Digital transformation…
A Cameroonian-flagged ship caught fire Saturday in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen after possibly being struck by a projectile, officials said, with at least one mariner missing and another still likely aboard the burning tanker after the rest of the crew abandoned the vessel. U.K. and European Union officials offered differing opinions about what…
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was still holding Thursday despite strains over missing hostages’ remains — including two U.S. nationals — and sporadic violence in the Palestinian enclave since the U.S. peace agreement came into effect almost a week ago. Mike Waltz, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said Thursday that…
Authorities in the southern US state have called the blast ‘devastating’, with many of the missing presumed dead. Published On 11 Oct 202511 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant has left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said. The blast occurred…
The World Food Programme’s most challenging operations have a simple message When funding is squeezed, humanitarian operations suffer – and so do the people that organizations such as the World Food Programme set out to assist. With funding down 40 percent since last year, WFP has to reduce and even end rations for some of…
Authorities across Egypt are searching for a 3,000-year-old bracelet reported missing from a leading museum in Cairo. The rare gold band, adorned with spherical lapis lazuli beads, dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 21st Dynasty who ruled from 993 to 984BC. The antiquities ministry said it had taken…
Eleven people, including children and a baby, were missing after a hippopotamus capsized their boat in southwestern Ivory Coast, a government official said Saturday. The West African nation’s minister for national cohesion and solidarity, Myss Belmonde Dogo, said on her Facebook page that the missing included women, little girls and an infant. She said the…
