Though domestic concerns and the country’s future in Iraq will most likely decide the 2008 US election, something greater rests on the outcome.
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for his poetic adventure and ”sensual ecstasy”.
Crew members aboard a Ukrainian ship hijacked off the coast of Somalia are living in fear of the pirates, says the United States Navy.
Police in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria have arrested the owner of a building that collapsed on Wednesday, killing 11 residents.
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber attacked a convoy ferrying a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister outside the capital, Colombo, on Thursday.
More than half of the colonies of Antarctica’s penguins face decline or being wiped out if the world warms by two degrees Celsius, says a new report.
Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday backed the beatification of his controversial World War II predecessor Pius XII.
There is no cause for panic over an outbreak of suspected haemorrhagic fever in Gauteng that has claimed three lives, says the government.
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) pays beneficiaries about R14-million a day, it has revealed in its 2008 annual report.
The ANC’s Mosiuoa Lekota, who has announced the possibility of a breakaway party, did not show up for a meeting with ANC leaders on Thursday.