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Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater freedom offered by Facebook and other forums. CEO and co-founder Jack

An influential Muslim family from Port Elizabeth has asked President Jacob Zuma to help them get their four children, who are being detained in Saudi Arabia, released. Sunday newspaper, Rapport reports that according to the father of the children

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were each banned for eight years by the FIFA ethics committee on Monday in a stunning take-down of world soccer’s most powerful leaders. FIFA President Blatter and his one-time protege Platini were kicked out

Television viewers in the Philippines were dismayed when Miss Colombia was named Miss Universe on Sunday, but a few moments later, the announcer corrected his error and declared Filipina Pia Alonso Wurtzbach the winner.    

HARARE, February 11 (ANA) ? More than three million Zimbabweans, double the population of neighbouring Botswana, have fled direct and structural violence in their country, a member of the National Transitional Justice Working Group in Zimbabwe

Accused of killing four people in the US in 2011, South African Muziwokuthula “Muzi” Madondo finally faced the music for two of the crimes on Monday when he was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. Madondo, who had pleaded guilty last

PARIS - (ANA) – The “Paris Agreement” – adopted in a plenary session at the COP21 climate talks on Saturday – represents the first time the world has united on a deal to combat climate change and its effects

ANC Women's League President Bathabile Dlamini will pay a courtesy call to June Steenkamp today. This, after an ANC Women's League member blundered during a television interview on the Oscar Pistorius Appeals Court judgement, saying

SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) — At least two heavily armed attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services center for the disabled Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault