Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search will break Google’s domination as the world’s most widely used internet search engine.
Indian Kashmir was tense on Thursday after thousands of anti-India protestors poured on to the streets during the night in defiance of a curfew.
The fragile truce between Georgia and Russia faced a new test on Thursday as Moscow pledged to begin handing over a key Georgian town.
Perhaps in a world in which men are going bald in their twenties, someone flaunting his mane may just be too much.
Security specialists say hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity.
Young Iraqis in Baghdad are surfing the internet to search for life partners as violence takes its toll on traditional forms of socialising.
Around the world Women’s Day is celebrated as a reminder of the contribution made by women to society. Women have become a force to be reckoned with.
Professor Brenda Wingfield has always pushed the boundaries of science. She was the first person to start DNA sequencing of filamentous fungi in SA.
KwaZulu-Natal-born Bridgette Gasa’s passion for architecture and the built environment was ignited during her matric year.
Tebello Nyokong has come a long way — from herding sheep in Lesotho as a young girl to becoming a professor of medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology
As a young learner growing up in Zimbabwe, Dionne Shepherd was fascinated by molecular/physical science and astronomy.
With rabies and related viruses in Africa as the focus of her research, Dr Wanda Markotter has an interest in the viruses found in African bats.
Christiané Heiligers says that physics may not seem like an obvious career for a woman. What attracted her to it was its clear-cut laws.
Since 1984 Dr Nosisa Matsiliza, student of medical biochemistry and dietician, has been working to ensure that SA’s youth receive an education.
‘The death of a child has a devastating impact on a woman," says Grace Chitima Mugumbate, a PhD researcher at the University of Cape Town.
If plays stay on stage, never making their way on to the page, South Africans could lose an important aspect of their culture. But not if Robin Malan’
Tracey Farren’s debut novel <i>Whiplash</i> is the redemptive story of Tess, a Muizenberg sex worker. This is an extract from the book.
The planned closure of Nedbank’s Go Banking is a "missed opportunity" for consumers, says <i>Justmoney.co.za</i>.
The prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, on Monday briefed the Senegalese president about the ICC investigation in Darfur.
From the Cape Flats to the president’s residence, chef Hilton Little has taken great strides in his culinary career, writes Brent Meersman.
Intel on Monday revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video-game lovers and multitaskers.
A South African woman has been charged with smuggling almost two kilogrammes of heroin into Australia in her suitcase.
In Senegal, villagers have always known about the health benefits of baobab fruit, which only now have been discovered by Europe.
Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalise home pages.
The unbundling of British American Tobacco to shareholders — and its secondary listing on the JSE — has been heralded as "a fantastic deal".
The African National Congress has defended its stance on the disbanding of the Scorpions.
ON CIRCUIT: <i>The Big Nothing</i>, a comedy about good-guys-turned-bad-blackmailers. It stars Mimi Rogers.
Strijdom Square shooter Barend Strydom told the Boeremag treason trial on Thursday that he still believed black people were not human.
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Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an internet flaw.