https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/municipal-bill-explained-where-your-money-goes/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T13:00:00+00:00We took apart a real municipal bill line by line. Here is where your money goes https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/armenia-largest-jesus-statue/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T11:53:00+00:00Armenia's giant Jesus statue: How tall it is, who is paying, and why its own church says no https://thebigfuss.com/en/food/david-sinclair-never-does/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T11:38:00+00:00A Harvard aging scientist says he never does these 8 things. We checked the science https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/texas-senate-poll-talarico-paxton/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T11:23:00+00:00Texas has not elected a Democrat senator since 1988. A new poll says it is now a coin toss https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/karl-bushby-waste-of-a-life/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T11:08:00+00:00Karl Bushby gave 28 years to a walk around the world. Was it a waste of a life? https://thebigfuss.com/en/explained/bbc-white-staff-paid-less-fact-check/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T10:53:00+00:00Does the BBC really pay white staff less? Here is what its own figures show https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/israel-oct-7-survivors-election/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T10:38:00+00:00Three years after 7 October, the families who lost the most cannot agree on who should lead Israel https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/idac-andrea-johnson-ramsamy-recording/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T10:23:00+00:00Who investigates the investigators? What the Madlanga commission found inside IDAC https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/taxi-fares-after-r30-petrol/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T10:08:00+00:00Taxi fares after R30 petrol: What your daily ride could cost now https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/fnb-item-paid-no-funds-fee/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T09:53:00+00:00FNB calls paying from an empty account a "value-added service". Customers say it costs them R200 a time https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/why-government-wont-cut-the-fuel-levy/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T09:23:00+00:00Why government won't cut the fuel levy again, and what a R1 or R2 cut would cost you and Treasury https://thebigfuss.com/en/explained/sassa-gold-card-stopped-working/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T08:53:00+00:00Your SASSA gold card stopped working. Here is what to do now https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/sibiya-matlala-usb-timeline/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T08:23:00+00:00Sibiya, Matlala and the USB: A timeline of what we know and what we don't https://thebigfuss.com/en/explained/sa-passport-ranking-2026/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T07:51:19+00:00The SA passport fell to 86th. Here is every country you can still visit without a visa https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/trump-russia-plague-china-covid/The Big Fussen2026-10-08T05:47:24+00:00Trump compares Russia's plague silence to China in the first days of COVID https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/sa-petrol-price-r30-where-the-money-goes/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T17:58:01+00:00R12.81 of every R30.25 litre you buy isn't petrol at all. Here is who gets it https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/western-cape-independence-capexit/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T14:48:38+00:00Ramaphosa says no part of South Africa can leave. A majority in the Western Cape still want a vote on it https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/super-el-nino-south-africa/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T14:38:28+00:00Orcas and rare sharks are turning up off Mozambique as a super El Niño builds https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/japan-30-minute-sleeper-daisuke-hori/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00He says he has slept 30 minutes a night for 17 years. Then the cameras stayed on https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/beatriz-flamini-500-days-cave/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00She spent 500 days alone in a cave and came out sure only 160 had passed https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/flydubai-copilot-cockpit-attack/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00A co-pilot attacked his captain with an axe at 34,000 feet. The captain's last move saved 174 passengers https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/fnb-negative-balance-customers/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00He did everything right and FNB still has him at minus R7,000. Now a flood of customers say it happened to them too https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/karl-bushby-walk-around-the-world/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00He left Hull in 1998 to walk around the world. Now he is 400 km from his mum's front door https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/karoline-leavitt-unfiltered/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00Karoline Leavitt quit the White House to be a mom. Now she's unloading on Democrats https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/michael-burry-crash-warning/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00The man who saw 2008 coming says the stock market is in denial, and he gave it 9 months https://thebigfuss.com/en/food/ohsumi-autophagy-fasting/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00Stop eating and your body starts eating itself. One man won a Nobel Prize for proving it https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/rand-paul-irkutsk-not-plague/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00Not plague at all? The chilling theory about what really killed the Irkutsk lab worker https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/unclaimed-40-million-lotto-max/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00Somebody in Ontario is sitting on a $40 million lottery ticket, and it dies on 28 October https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/us-embassy-leave-russia-plague/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00America just told its citizens in Russia to get out, and this time the warning names the plague https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/warner-bros-paramount-merger-skydance/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:10:00+00:00SpongeBob, Batman, Harry Potter and CNN now have the same boss. Meet Skydance https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/christa-pike-survived-execution/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Tennessee gave her two lethal doses. A week later, Christa Pike is awake and talking https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/cia-gold-bars-200-million-fraud/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00A CIA officer invented secret missions and walked away with nearly $200 million https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/inside-irkutsk-plague-institute/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Inside the Siberian plague lab where a 28-year-old technician died https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/kenya-first-ebola-case/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Ebola reaches Kenya as a sick man flies home to Nairobi and dies two days later https://thebigfuss.com/en/sport/man-city-guilty-punishment/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Man City's rivals want their titles wiped and a ban that lasts years https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/megan-fox-unrecognizable/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Is that really Megan Fox? The "unrecognizable" clip that has fans crying surgery https://thebigfuss.com/en/sport/messi-last-game-argentina/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Messi cried on the bus, then scored his last goal for Argentina https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/plague-should-you-worry/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Should you be worried about the plague in Russia? Straight answers to what everyone is asking https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/russia-outbreak-cover-ups/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00In 1979 Moscow blamed bad meat for a deadly anthrax leak. That is why nobody believes "pneumonia" now https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/russia-plague-scare/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00A young lab worker died inside a Siberian plague institute, and Russia won't call it plague https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/trump-putin-plague-call/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Trump says he will call Putin about plague, and Russia says there is no plague https://thebigfuss.com/en/politics/south-africa-farm-attacks-leon-lotz/The Big Fussen2026-10-07T07:00:00+00:00His father-in-law was shot in front of his family. Now this farmer says the world is ignoring South Africa's farmers https://thebigfuss.com/en/viral/john-mcafee-life-true-story/The Big Fussen2026-10-06T17:00:00+00:00The wildest parts of John McAfee's life were real. A few weren't https://thebigfuss.com/en/food/coffee-slows-aging/The Big Fussen2026-10-06T15:30:00+00:00Your daily coffee may be slowing down how fast you age https://thebigfuss.com/en/world/mediterranean-climate-land-after-ai/The Big Fussen2026-10-06T13:00:00+00:00Five strips of coastline could become the most valuable land on Earth after AI