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President Jacob Zuma says Africa continues to lag behind in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Zuma said this was despite the continent's move to adopt the New

Islamic State extremists released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, who was abducted in Syria last year, and British Prime Minister, David Cameron late on Saturday condemned his slaying as "an act of pure evil

Judgement is expected to continue in the Pretoria High Court today in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius. Masipa adjourned proceedings in the High Court before dealing with the matter of whether Pistorius was guilty of culpable homicide. This

Judge Thokozile Masipa promised on Thursday there would be no exhaustive "rehash" of evidence during her judgment of murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius. "It shall not be possible, nor will it serve any purpose, to rehash

Joan Rivers' daughter, Melissa, released the following statement: "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. She passed peacefully at 1:17pm surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would

 An Indonesian girl swept away in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her parents 10 years after she was given up for dead, her mother said Thursday. Raudhatul Jannah was 4 when she and her brother were swept away by

An Air Algerie airplane traveling from Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers and 6 crew members on board has been reported missing by the Spanish company that operates the aircraft. The plane, a Boeing Co. MD-83 model with flight code

  According to social media reports, at least one South African was killed when the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crashed in strife-torn eastern Ukraine on Thursday. A senior staff member at Beeld newspaper said on Twitter that a

Here's what is known, and what has been claimed, about Thursday's crash of a Malaysian jetliner carrying 298 people in eastern Ukraine: --- THE PLANE A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, which the carrier said was carrying 283 passengers