Today’s business update – and why SA banks charge more for instant payments

What you need to know in SA business today.

The bloated, decaying bodies of Covid victims are washing up on the banks of India's Ganges River

Local officials believe the bodies are Covid victims who were immersed in the river, as...

Covid-19 patients in India are developing 'black fungus' infections which can lead to blindness

Doctors say steroids, which have proven effective for those severely ill with Covid-19,...

SPOILER | Here is ‘the most invisible’ animal driving Twitter – and biologists – crazy

It's not just you. People who look at animals all the time have trouble finding the snake...

US authorised Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus jab for teens - the first shot OK'd for 12- to 15-year-olds

US health officials have said they will be ready to start giving the shot to children...

A Chinese zoo kept quiet for days after 3 leopards escaped. One is still on the loose.

Three leopards slipped out of their enclosure at the Hangzhou Safari Park, but the zoo...

VW ad doesn’t show men as defective and replaceable, rules regulator

The advertising regulator of South Africa has dismissed a complaint levelled at a...

The coronavirus variant in India is a global health threat, the World Health Organisation says

Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead for Covid-19 at the WHO, said the agency planned...