While rallies in Caracas may be drawing the world’s attention ahead of the election, the significance of the vote can be found in the Orinoco Belt.
For eight seasons Idols has provided smash hits, screaming fans and unease about a racially divided society – but now SA has its first black winner.
Gaffe-prone Mitt Romney will try to lure Barack Obama into a rare display of mean-spiritedness in a looming confrontation in the race for presidency.
With Bill lauded by his opponents and Hillary enjoying success as secretary of state, there’s a groundswell to back a Clinton run for the White House.
A ban on shark finning and the adoption of a global shark conservation plan is being sought at a meeting of more than 50 countries in Bonn this week.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has issued a strong rebuke over security council inaction, saying world leaders "should not look the other way".
A report has found the economic impact of global warming is costing the world more than $1.2-trillion a year, wiping 1.6% annually from global GDP.
In the bleak, windswept landscape of the swelling Za’atari camp in Jordan, child refugees are struggling to cope with the horrors of Syria’s war.
Jihadi veterans of Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan have joined up with foreign idealists on the frontline of Aleppo against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.
Gaffes have left the Republican candidate looking disgraced and dishevelled