Oil has surged to $118 a barrel, and South Africans may soon feel it where it hurts most. In this episode of Number of the Day, Gareth Edwards and Francis Herd unpack the fuel-price risk, the diesel ...

Long before Hollywood reshaped Los Angeles, the region was famous for something far less glamorous: oil. California was once the world’s largest producer and exporter of crude, and L.A. sat at the ...

Ronnie Screwvala changed the viewing habits of the world’s most populous country, India - but he started out selling toothbrushes. BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng chart his ...

When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. For example, most people will associate a sharp-sounding word with a jagged, pointed shape, while a soft, rolling word is ...

When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the ...

Most players play it safe when asked about Jeeno Thitikul, but Angel Yin chose to go no-holds-barred while talking about the current world No. 1. The defending Honda LPGA Thailand champion appeared in ...

Google has announced that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking. The ...