Bitcoin’s biggest rally in more than a week has pushed it to the brink of $12 000, a key level watched by chartists and technicians.

Japan will join forces with the US and Europe to take on any market abuses by the four Big Tech companies, the new head of its antitrust watchdog said on Monday.

Renewables are set to overtake coal this decade as the world’s favourite fuel to generate electricity, the International Energy Agency says.

After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of kilometres away, a Nasa spacecraft will this week attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.

Hedge funds have pulled back from one of the biggest short positions in US tech stocks in over a decade, in a near-record buying spree of Nasdaq futures last week.

China’s economic recovery from the depths plunged during the Covid-19 pandemic has continued, providing support for a world economy suffering its deepest recession since the Great Depression.

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Nyiko Shiburi has been appointed as CEO of MultiChoice South Africa, replacing Mark Rayner, as the pay-television group announces sweeping management changes.