Britain should brace for a rise in cyberattacks linked to hostile states, the head of the country’s cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday, as the government urged tech firms to help build defences powered by artificial intelligence.

U.S. President Donald Trump called off attacks on Iran indefinitely, though the Strait of Hormuz remained blocked on Wednesday with three ships reportedly hit by gunfire, and neither side showed up for peace talks in Pakistan.

Measuring success by pledged capital misses the point, because what South Africa needs most is not money but the skills, technology and intellectual property that come with foreign direct investment. Without a deliberate push to attract FDI, the country risks prolonging low growth, weak productivity and declining competitiveness despite having deep domestic capital markets.

Germany has been informed that Russia will stop the supply of Kazakh crude oil via the Druzhba pipeline, the economy ministry said on Wednesday, forcing one of its biggest refineries to make up for that gap from elsewhere.

Virginians voted to back a new electoral map that could hand Democrats four more seats in the US House of Representatives, turning US President Donald Trump’s redistricting push into a potential liability for Republicans in upcoming midterm elections.

The Indian Premier League has almost reached halfway of the group stages, and the South Africa players have experienced a mixed run with a few standout performances.

Cuts in US funding for global health research over the past year dealt a heavy blow to South Africa’s health research ecosystem, which has historically relied heavily on American financial support. Spotlight looks at what the South African Medical Research Council has done to weather the storm and what it has planned for the next few years.