From today a litre of 95 in Gauteng costs R30.25, a South African record. We took the government's own price sheet apart, line by line, and followed the money to Treasury, the Road Accident Fund and an emergency oil reserve that a court found was sold unlawfully.
Read the storyThe president has ruled out a vote. Activists have written to Donald Trump. And a poll says most Western Cape voters want a say on leaving South Africa.
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Petrol broke R30 a litre. We followed the moneyPolitics2
The Cape independence push Pretoria can't ignorePolitics3
The US tells Americans in Russia to leave, in a plague alertWorld4
An MIT scientist says Irkutsk may not be plague at allWorld5
A super El Niño is building and the ocean is acting strangeWorldThe US Embassy in Moscow put out a health alert about suspected pneumonic plague in Siberia. Inside it sits a familiar order: Americans in Russia should depart immediately. Was the outbreak the reason?
Read the storyPlague is normally stopped with a week of antibiotics. Russia sealed hospitals instead. An MIT biosecurity expert says that points to a germ drugs can't stop, or something else entirely, and Senator Rand Paul is spreading the warning.
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Free. One email a week. Unsubscribe anytime.Orcas and whale sharks are suddenly showing up off Mozambique every week. Out in the Pacific, the strongest El Niño ever measured for this time of year is growing. Here is what it could mean for South Africa's rain, food prices and summer heat.
Read the storyIn 1998 Karl Bushby set off from the bottom of Chile to walk home to Hull. On Monday he crawled out of the Channel at Dover. One last walk north is all that stands between him and his mum's door.
Read the storyBranch visits, a private banker and emails to the top. FNB told him it was sorted. His account still shows minus R7,000, and a wave of other customers say theirs does too.
Read the storyA 28-year-old technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute died two days after reaching hospital. Hospitals were sealed, nearly 200 people isolated, and now Trump says he will raise it with Putin.
Read the storyA flydubai jet to Tel Aviv suddenly dived over Saudi Arabia. Inside the locked cockpit, the co-pilot had allegedly hit the captain with the crash axe. One last push on the door handle changed everything.
Read the storyThe $111 billion deal is done. HBO, DC, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS and Paramount+ now sit inside one company run by David Ellison, son of one of the richest men alive.
Read the storyThe S&P 500 is sitting at record highs. Michael Burry, the investor from The Big Short, says that is what denial looks like, and that in 2000 and 2008 this stage lasted six to nine months.
Read the storyA winning Lotto Max ticket sold in Grey County, Ontario, has gone unclaimed for almost a year. Nobody knows who bought it. On 28 October the $40 million disappears for good.
Read the storyA short movie clip of Megan Fox has the internet convinced she has had more cosmetic work. The clip is a year old, and she has been surprisingly open about what she has done.
Read the storyChrista Pike was strapped to the gurney, given two doses of a lethal drug and left snoring behind a curtain. Six days later her lawyers say she is conscious and speaking.
Read the storySix weeks after leaving the White House to spend time with her children, Karoline Leavitt is on Fox News calling Democrats "liberal lunatics". On 1 November she joins the network for real.
Read the storyBeatriz Flamini lived 70 metres under the ground in Spain with no clock, no sunlight and no people. When they came to bring her up, she thought about 160 days had gone by.
Read the storyDaisuke Hori says he has slept about 30 minutes a day since his twenties. He streamed his life around the clock for a week to prove it, and the internet is still arguing about what it saw.
Read the storyWhen food runs out, your cells start breaking down their own worn-out parts and recycling them. A Japanese scientist won the 2016 Nobel Prize for showing how it works.
Read the storyRussia says there is no plague, yet a Siberian hospital is handing out plague checklists. Here is how pneumonic plague spreads, how it is cured, and how worried you actually need to be.
Read the storyTrump says a call with Putin about the suspected plague case in Siberia is coming "very soon". Washington wants data, the WHO wants answers, and the Kremlin says thanks but there is nothing to see.
Read the storyManchester City were found guilty of breaking Premier League money rules for nine seasons. Now rival clubs are pushing for punishments that could keep them out of the league for years.
Read the storyA plague lab worker in Siberia died of what Russia calls pneumonia. The world is sceptical because Moscow has hidden deadly lab outbreaks before, once for 13 years.
Read the storyThe Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has hunted plague across half of Russia since 1934. Here is what it does, where the disease still lives, and what the latest reporting says about the young technician's death.
Read the storyA Kenyan man who lived in DR Congo flew home sick and died in Nairobi. Congo's outbreak has passed 8,600 cases and is surging in a new province.
Read the storyDavid Rush made up classified programs, signed off on them himself, and turned taxpayer money into gold bars and Florida mansions. This week he admitted it in court.
Read the storyIn front of more than 85,000 people in Buenos Aires, Lionel Messi set up two goals and scored a penalty in his final game for Argentina. Then he picked up the microphone.
Read the storyA South African farmer survived three attacks and lost his father-in-law to a fourth. His story has reignited the fight over farm violence, and over who is counting.
Read the storyA murder investigation, a jungle escape, a faked heart attack and two runs for president. Most of the legend is true. Some of it he made up himself.
Read the storyScientists pooled more than 50 studies and found coffee drinkers stayed healthier for longer. When you drink it may matter even more than how much.
Read the storyCalifornia, central Chile, the Mediterranean, the Western Cape and southern Australia share one rare climate. If AI makes work optional, money may flood there.
Read the storyA British psychologist spent ten years studying lucky and unlucky people. The difference wasn't fate. It was a handful of habits anyone can copy.
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