Following news that Elon Musk might be taking SpaceX public at a possible valuation of $1.5-trillion, commentators hauled out their calculators to determine if it was worth it. Yes, when you consider that SpaceX entirely owns almost all space infrastructure. And traditionally, any monopoly on infrastructure (rails, roads, ports) is where the trillions lie.
JSE investors can follow the same consumer story via landlords (Reits) or retailers. Updates from Spear and Dipula show sharply different property strategies delivering similar returns. Woolworths’ local resilience is overshadowed by Australia, while Mr Price leans on standout acquisitions to justify NKD.
Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the owners of Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, where a fire in the early hours of Jan. 1 killed dozens.
Israel said on Sunday it was terminating the humanitarian operations of the international charity Doctors Without Borders in Gaza after the organisation failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway faces backlash over her past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, revealed in newly unsealed documents, including emails and a four-day stay at his Florida home in 2013.
Defining the middle class in South Africa is widely debated, but data from various authorities gives us a good idea of how much it takes to be included.
At 58%, most of the households in the ANC-led Mpofana Local Municipality don’t have access to electricity, and the town is at risk of a “possible grid collapse”.
Clare made it two wins from two in hurling’s Division 1B, powering to an impressive 2-30 to 1-19 win over Antrim in Cushendall, but Down’s fightback against Wexford fell just short.
Prosport International have announced the sad passing of their client Jeandre Gaffoor, the Stellenbosch FC DStv Diski Challenge midfielder-cum-defender.
A stoppage-time penalty from Kylian Mbappe sees Real Madrid over the line against nine-man Rayo Vallecano, narrowing the gap behinf league leaders Barcelona to one point.
Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot box
Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’
“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry...
Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to fraudsters’ bank accounts
Foreign students attending independent schools in the UK are being targeted by fraudsters seeking to intercept their fee payments, according to new research.
Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to the bank account of a criminal, after receiving a fake...
“A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station,” reports ScienceAlert, “and the changes these ‘bugs’ experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections…”Scientists aboard the space station incubated different combinations of bacteria and phages for 25 days, while the research team led by biochemist Vatsan...
Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do
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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, so to speak: thousands of tonnes of cosmic dust bombard the Earth each...
A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.