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/ 1 December 2010
Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the Aids epidemic in the United States and European nations a top United Nations expert said.
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/ 1 December 2010
For the John F Kennedy-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included.
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/ 1 December 2010
To many fans of The Simpsons, it seemed that the long-running cartoon might at last have overstepped the line.
After the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the US government is reversing almost a decade of post-September 11 efforts into sharing sensitive documents.
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/ 30 November 2010
A Somali man, who admitted his role in an attack on a United States Navy ship off the coast of Africa, was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison.
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/ 30 November 2010
A 15-year-old boy took 23 of his classmates and a teacher hostage in a classroom at a Wisconsin high school, shooting himself as police broke in.
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/ 29 November 2010
A woman is going to prison for breaking into her neighbor’s house wearing nothing but a bridal skirt and veil.
Canadian comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of a string of madcap spoof movies died of complications from pneumonia in Florida on Sunday.
We have gathered together some of Leslie Nielsen’s most classic movie moments.The actor passed away this morning at the age of 85.
The set of US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks this weekend, which sent shockwaves through the world, has a South African twist.
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/ 27 November 2010
A Somali-born teenager was arrested on Friday for attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
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/ 25 November 2010
Millions of Americans took to the skies on Wednesday for the start of the Thanksgiving holiday but air travel flowed smoothly.
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/ 25 November 2010
Five men from Somalia were convicted in a federal court in Virginia on piracy and other criminal charges over an April attack on a US Navy ship.
DeLay may face a prison sentence after being found guilty of illegally transferring corporate money to party campaign funds.
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/ 24 November 2010
Wafaa Bilal, an assistant arts professor at New York University, that a small camera had been put into his head as part of an art project.
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/ 23 November 2010
China acknowledged on Tuesday it is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, confirming what scientists have said for years.
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/ 23 November 2010
A year after Tiger Woods’ great embarrassment, he’s still no closer to recovering his game and his reputation.
Pity George Bush. Scanning eight years of calamity for the lowest point in his presidency could not have been easy.
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/ 20 November 2010
United States man who refused a groin pat-down inspires campaign to stop intimate searches and full body scans.
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/ 19 November 2010
General Motors made a triumphant return to Wall Street but its shares lost momentum after an early bounce.
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/ 19 November 2010
Google plans to hire more than 2 000 people around the globe, bumping up its workforce as it expands into new markets.
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/ 18 November 2010
A study by the Pew Research Centre reported more people are accepting the view that wedding bells aren’t needed to have a family.
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/ 18 November 2010
Officials from oil and construction firms gathered at an air force base in Port Harcourt on Thursday for the handover of 19 hostages.
A sneaky 85th-minute goal earned the US a 1-0 win over Bafana in the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge at the Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 18 November 2010
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said the company was not running low on capital, amid media reports that it was considering raising funds.
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/ 17 November 2010
US’ investigators interviewed French anti-doping officials as part of a probe into allegations of drug use by cyclists, including Lance Armstrong.
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/ 16 November 2010
New body scanners and intensified pat-downs at US airports leaves a sour taste in pilots’ and travellers’ mouths.
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/ 16 November 2010
A US drone strike on an insurgent training centre in militant-riddled North Waziristan killed 15 militants amid a recent surge in the covert attacks.
The US football team, in Cape Town preparing for Wednesday night’s Nelson Mandela Challenge clash, seem to know very little about their opponents.
Hundreds of people, sporting broomsticks and capes, invaded New York this weekend to reenact Harry Potter’s magical game of quidditch.
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/ 13 November 2010
Facebook is set to launch its latest Google-taunting product on Monday: the long-anticipated Facebook email system.
<i>Sarah Palin’s Alaska</i> couldn’t be further from the pampered pooches and designer divas seen in much of the popular reality TV fare.