One of the clear takeaways from Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold2 5G is that this is a product made by a company at the top of its game. The phone is not only a major improvement on the original model, it’s also a good phone. I’m typically reticent when it comes to heaping praise on an experimental…
Protesters have forced several stores of a South African health and beauty company to close, after it ran a hair advertisement they deemed racist. The Clicks advert had pictures of African hair labelled dry, dull and damaged, while an example of white hair was described as fine and flat. Opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)…
Novak Djokovic has apologised for hitting a line judge with a ball at the US Open, saying he is “extremely sorry for creating her such stress”. The world number one was disqualified from his fourth-round match against Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta. The Serb, 33, who had just had his serve broken, took a ball out of his…
THE trial of former ICT minister Supa Mandiwanzira again failed to get underway on Friday with new prosecutors coming in to handle the matter. The Nyanga South legislator is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office, accused of seconding his personal assistant, Tawanda Chinembiri, to the board of the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of…
Barcelona forward Ansu Fati broke a 95-year national record to become Spain’s youngest goalscorer at the age of 17 years and 311 days against Ukraine. Fati – also the youngest goalscorer in Champions League history and Barcelona’s youngest scorer in La Liga – curled home a fine 20-yard shot off the post on his first start….
The former head of the World Bank has warned the world could look like it did in 1900 if countries don’t work together to tackle the current crisis. Robert Zoellick pointed to the rift between the US and China as a serious threat to the global economic recovery. Mr Zoellick, one of America’s most senior…
India has surpassed Brazil to become the second-worst affected country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 90,802 new cases have been registered overnight, taking the total number of cases to 4,204,613. It has taken just 13 days for India to go from three to four million cases, while it took Brazil 25 and the US 16 days….
The US unemployment rate fell sharply in August, as some firms began to hire new staff again and temporary hiring for the US census boosted job numbers. Firms added 1.4 million new jobs and unemployment fell below 10% for the first time since the pandemic began. It is the fourth month in a row that…
China is celebrating the successful launch and return of a reusable spacecraft which reportedly orbited Earth for two days before safely returning to the ground. The launch and landing “marked an important breakthrough in my country’s technology research on reusable spacecraft”, said the government-run Xinhua news agency. There are very few details available about the…
SOUTH African consumer confidence remained at an almost three-decade low in the third quarter even after a partial recovery as restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic were gradually eased. A quarterly index measuring sentiment rose to -23 from -33 in the three months through June, FirstRand Ltd.’s First National Bank said…
