The South African President explained that the proposal to offer higher education free of charge for less fortunate students would be realised in a ‘fiscally sustainable manner'.
Austria's new coalition said on Saturday that the government would be a trustworthy partner to the European Union; however, it sought to introduce some reforms to the block.
The South African leading party The African National Congress is set to vote on its next party leader this weekend with final results being announced on Sunday.
The US-based insurance company MetLife Inc did not pay pensions to more than tens of thousands of people and thus is required to increase reserves to repay them.
Tens of thousands of Romanians joined European royals today to pay their respects to late King Michael as a state funeral got underway in Bucharest.
Libya reported on Saturday that its coastal guard had rescued over 250 migrants who tried to leave North Africa in small boats bound for Italy.
Procter & Gamble reported that it had appointed activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board of directors, even though he did not win election to a seat in the biggest proxy battle.
The US reported that did everything to help in an investigation of a heavy data breach in the Italian cyber-security firm.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with France's Foreign Minister on the situation in Syria and the upcoming bilateral contacts.
Sebastian Kurz, conservative leader stated on Saturday that Hartwig Loeger, an insurance executive, would be Austria's next Finance Minister.
Conservative and nationalist parties in Austria reached a deal on Friday to form a new coalition government that will shift the country to the right.
Uber should return the US Federal judge an ex-employee's latter about the company's theft and fraud and mentioned evidence of the stolen trade secrets in Waymo case, court officials said.
According to South Koreas spy agency, North Korea's hackers were involved in cryptocurrency exchange attacks this year, when $6.99M worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen.
Oil companies will pay hundreds of millions of Dollars to Alaska in an official settlement over the North Slope crude oil's value that was shipped through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
A powerful earthquake, magnitude 6.5, struck Java island in Indonesia, killing at least three people, while hundreds of buildings were damaged.
South Africa is looking forward to increase spendings on local universities to 1% of GDP over the next few years, as the higher education funding commission has recommended.
According to the UK government, Britain and China have vowed to strengthen and continue cooperation on a wide range of trade, financial and economic issues.
According to South African Finance Minister Gigaba, the government would take the necessary tough decisions in order to stabilise economy growth and public debt.
According to British Finance Minister Hammond, the country was looking forward to negotiate a bespoke trade agreement with the EU that would differ from a Canada model deal.
NAFTA talks made some progress over less controversial issues, but left the subject of autos, an expiry clause and dispute settlement to be discussed in January in Montreal.
Unilever announced its decision to sell spreads and margarine business to the US private equity company KKR for $8.04B to focus on rapidly growing products.
The US Justice Department and AT&T held unsuccessful settlement negotiations over the pay-TV and wireless company's bid to purchase TV show and movie maker Time Warner.
The Bank of Canada retained the option of further interest rate increases in early 2018, despite unclarities, such as NAFTA talks, which could derail the country's economy.
According to survey prepared by the Export Development Canada, nearly six percent of Canadian companies could relocate part of their operations to the US because of ambiguity over the future of the NAFTA trade deal.