Three workers in a United Nations-backed polio eradication campaign have been shot in Pakistan and two of them have been killed.
A draft policy document shows the ANC has rejected calls to nationalise mines but supports a windfall "resource rent" tax on mining firms.
The schools in Newtown will return to classes, four days after a gunman shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
A blast in a market in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 15 people and more than 20 people have been wounded.
President Barack Obama has demanded changes in the way the US dealt with gun violence, at a memorial held for the massacre of 20 schoolchildren.
The rand retreated from a tough resistance barrier and languished in a recent range as uncertainty about the ANC election has kept investors jittery.
Egyptians have voted in a referendum on a new constitution shaped by Islamist allies of Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi.
A heavily armed gunman has opened fire on school children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school, killing at least 26 people.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify on December 20 before the House of Representatives and Senate foreign affairs committees.
Stephen Hawking, world-famous cosmologist, and the team behind the discovery of the ‘God particle’, have won a $3-million science price each.