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Disgraced U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong will discuss the doping scandal that dramatically brought down his stellar career during an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week. The famed talk show host said a 90-minute special episode would address

Reporters Without Borders says 2012 has been the deadliest year for journalists. It says 88 journalists have been killed so for this year while on duty, along with 47 community journalists and 6 media assistant colleagues. Reporters Without

  Hundreds of people attended a mass at a church in Newtown, Connecticut last night, to pay tribute to the victims of the elementary school massacre in which at least 27 people died. Twenty of them were children, between five and ten years

 Twelve South African Christian leaders have returned home after a visit to the occupied state of Palestine. In a statement issued by the delegation, led by the presiding Bishop of the South African Methodist Church, the group said it was

 A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 hit Japan today, triggering a tsunami alert on the northeast coast. Early reports said buildings in the capital, Tokyo, also swayed violently. The tsunami was forecast to be around one-metre

A Johannesburg karate coach who sexually assaulted his students was sentenced to three years of correctional supervision by the Alexandra Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. Sixty-nine-year-old Peter Foyn of Douglasdale has been sentenced to house

 A British judge heard on Monday that Shrien Dewani is now a "husk" of a man who suffers flashbacks of the night his bride was killed on honeymoon in South Africa. The judge then set the murder suspect's extradition hearing for

US actor Larry Hagman, who became famous for his role of J.R. Ewing in the US television show "Dallas," has died at the age of 81, after losing a battle with cancer, his family said. "When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones

 The Palestinian civilian death toll mounted on Monday morning, as Israeli aircraft struck densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip in its campaign to quell rocket fire menacing nearly half of Israel's population. Eighty-four Palestinians