Russian forces on Wednesday abandoned military positions deep inside Georgia in a major pull-back the Kremlin vowed to complete by midnight.
Two Americans and a Japanese researcher won the 2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for the discovery of a glowing protein in jellyfish.
Former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Wednesday served “divorce papers” on the African National Congress.
SA stocks were in positive territory at noon on Thursday, moving in line with global markets which earlier in the day found some stable ground.
Britain will inject up to £50-billion of government money into the country’s banks as part of a multibillion-pound package.
Police could one day predict the surname of male suspects or victims of crime from DNA alone, British researchers said on Wednesday.
Iceland’s biggest bank received an emergency loan from Sweden on Wednesday as the country’s financial crisis showed no sign of abating.
A passenger plane crashed on landing at a remote airfield in Nepal’s Everest region Wednesday, killing 18 people most of whom were German tourists.
Susan Coyne had her heart set on a pair of earrings at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, a purchase she would not have thought twice about.
The road that snakes past stalls piled with bananas, charcoal and dried fish through Fengolo village in western Côte d’Ivoire looks peaceful.