Batman comic book sells for over $1m

A 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut sold at auction Thursday for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said. The Dallas-based auction house said…

South Africa says can't meet land reform target

South Africa's land reform minister said on Friday it would be impossible for the government to meet its own target of acquiring farm land to restore to blacks after it was taken from them during apartheid. After the fall of apartheid in…

Oil holds at $78 per barrel

Oil held around $78 a barrel on Friday after sliding more than 2 percent the day before, as worries over the U.S. economy and demand recovery weighed on the market. Focus is now on a series of U.S. economic data including fourth-quarter…