Technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are offering digital ways to donate to Japan’s recovery efforts after their massive earthquake.
North Korea on Tuesday rejected South Korea’s plea to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul’s military and mobile communications.
Big cities are bursting at the seams, but are set to grow even larger as experts predict about 70% of the world’s population will be urban by 2050.
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Government regulators knew of a heightened risk of explosion in the type of nuclear reactors used at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
The South African Reserve Bank remains concerned about the effects of rising oil and food prices on the outlook for inflation, Gill Marcus says.
Rights activists are speaking out against rapes targeting lesbians in South Africa.
There is little risk the political crisis in North Africa could spread to sub-Sahara Africa, but escalating oil and food prices are the main worry.
There will be a working-class revolt if the planned "looting" of commuters through road toll fees goes ahead, the Young Communist League warned.
The giddy prospect of a third revolution in the Arab world, with Libya following Tunisia and Egypt into a brave new democratic era, is fading.