SKIERS FILMED TRAPPED IN WILDLY SWINGING CHAIRLIFT AS STORM ELEANOR SWEEPS ACROSS EUROPE

Storm Eleanor has swept across northern Europe, killing at least four people and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes... READ MORE›

FOUR DEAD IN NEW YEAR SHOOTING IN NEW JERSEY

A New York apartment fire killed at least 12 people, including a baby, with four more critically injured... READ MORE›

'PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING': EYEWITNESSES DESCRIBE WORST NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT FIRE IN DECADES

New York Fire latest Witnesses of Bronx apartment block blaze describe hearing residents screaming... READ MORE›

CCTV SHOWS SUSPECTED ST PETERSBURG SUPERMARKET BOMBING SUSPECT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin called the bombing an act of terrorism... READ MORE›

COUPLE AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK BASEMENT WITH THROATS SLASHED IN 'POSSIBLE QUADRUPLE HOMICIDE'

A couple and two young children have been found dead in a basement in Troy, New York State with their throats slashed... READ MORE›

WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER KNIFE PULLED DURING MASS BRAWL AT CHRISTMAS TOY GIVEAWAY

Police in Detroit reportedly made the arrest after the fight broke out the City's Town Centre Mall on Saturday... READ MORE›

ALL SET FOR WEAH - BOAKAI 'BOXING DAY' PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN LIBERIA

Campaigns over, ballot boxes and other electoral materials deployed across Liberia, the National Elections Commission NEC says all is set for today's crucial run off vote... READ MORE›

FIVE KILLED AFTER MOSCOW BUS DRIVES INTO PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS

Moscow bus drives into pedestrian underpass, killing five... READ MORE›

FAMILY 'ASKED TO TAKE 'OFFENSIVE' JESUS SIGN DOWN FROM CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS BY NEIGHBOUR'

Mark and Lynn Wivell said their homeowner's association had made the request after they put up the display outside their home in Adams County, Pennsylvania... READ MORE›

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES: NUCLEAR WAR IS 'ONE TANTRUM AWAY'

An anti-nuclear weapons campaign group accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize during the elaborate awards ceremony on Sunday in Oslo... READ MORE›

WOMEN SCARCE IN NOBEL PRIZE ANNALS

The Nobel Prize statistics are dour reading for women, who've been awarded only one of every 20 prizes... READ MORE›

TRUMP CONFUSES EVERYONE WITH FIRST TWEET AFTER ACCOUNT IS BACK UP

We have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer-support employee who did this on the employee's last day... READ MORE›

FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER SAYS WOULD TRAVEL TO NORTH KOREA

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says would travel to North Korea NYT... READ MORE›

MANDELA BOOK SEQUEL LAUNCHED IN S AFRICA

The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg... READ MORE›

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BOB DYLAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

U.S. folk singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday... READ MORE›

JAPANESE MICROBIOLOGIST YOSHINORI OHSUMI WINS NOBEL IN MEDICINE FOR AUTOPHAGY RESEARCH

Japanese microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on cell autophagy, a process that helps... READ MORE›

JIMMY CARTER GETS MEDICAL ATTENTION AFTER COLLAPSING FROM DEHYDRATION IN WINNIPEG

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter received medical attention for dehydration while in Winnipeg on Thursday, where he is helping build a Habitat for Humanity home... READ MORE›

DESMOND TUTU: I WANT RIGHT TO END MY LIFE THROUGH ASSISTED DYING

Terminally ill people 'should have right to choose a dignified assisted death', he writes in article published on his 85th birthday... READ MORE›

BOB DYLAN WILL 'ABSOLUTELY' TRY TO ATTEND NOBEL CEREMONY

Bob Dylan has finally broken his silence on his Nobel Prize... READ MORE›

SANTOS CALLS FOR 'RETHINK' OF WAR ON DRUGS

The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to call for the world to rethink the war on drugs... READ MORE›

NOBEL PRIZE FOR BRAIN'S GPS DISCOVERY

These grid cells are akin to lines of longitude and latitude, helping the brain to judge distance and navigate... READ MORE›

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD

A group of 50 Nobel Prize winners has spoken out to reveal the 10 greatest threats to mankind... READ MORE›

JIMMY CARTER SEEING RESURGENCE OF RACISM PLANS BAPTIST CONFERENCE FOR UNITY

Mr. Carter founded the New Baptist Covenant by reaching out to black and white Baptist associations, many of which had split many years ago over slavery... READ MORE›

TOP CAMPAIGNERS CALL FOR MASS CLIMATE ACTION AHEAD OF PARIS CONFERENCE

Their statement published in the book Stop Climate Crimes reads We are at a crossroads... READ MORE›

PROTESTS OVER BLACK GIRLS' HAIR REKINDLE DEBATE ABOUT RACISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Outrage over the Pretoria girls' claims is part of a broader debate that has gained traction in South Africa in the past year... READ MORE›

COLOMBIA SIGNS HISTORIC PEACE DEAL WITH FARC

Just days later, voters shocked peace deal promoters and detractors alike by rejecting the agreement... READ MORE›

De Klerk, South Africa's last white president, but neither of them alluded to the Dalai Lama... READ MORE›

REMEMBERING THE ANTI-APARTHEID GIANT AHMED KATHRADA

OPINION The Mandela legacy Jacob Zuma's absence Noticeably absent from the funeral was South African president Jacob Zuma... READ MORE›

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU 'WANTS RIGHT TO ASSISTED DEATH'

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu has revealed that he wants to have the option of an assisted death... READ MORE›

JAPANESE SCIENTIST WINS NOBEL MEDICINE PRIZE FOR WORK ON 'SELF-EATING' CELLS

The prize for physiology or medicine is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year... READ MORE›

15 OF NELSON MANDELA'S MOST INSPIRING QUOTES

Mandela Day 15 of Nelson Mandela's most inspiring quotes... READ MORE›

COLOMBIA SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH FARC

Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his resolute efforts to end the country's civil war... READ MORE›

BEATING PARASITES WINS THREE SCIENTISTS NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE

The 8 million Swedish crowns 960,000 medicine prize is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year... READ MORE›

NOBEL MEDICINE PRIZE GOES TO HALL, ROSBASH AND YOUNG

Even short-term disruptions of the circadian clock can wreak havoc on the human body, such as jetlag... READ MORE›

OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DIDN'T HAVE THE DESIRED EFFECT, FORMER NOBEL OFFICIAL REVEALS

When Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 even the fresh-faced president appeared a little shocked... READ MORE›

WHITE SCHOOLS VS BLACK HAIR

Until we dismantle the continued white domination of post-apartheid South Africa, Mr. Mandela's children will not find freedom in the Rainbow Nation... READ MORE›

LIVE UPDATES: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2017 AWARDED TO INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Updated October 6, 2017 2 45 pm Nobel Peace Prize 2017 An employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal... READ MORE›

STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA PROTEST SLOW PACE OF CHANGE

Mr. Mahapa 23 grew up in a village with only black South Africans and he graduated at the top of his high school class... READ MORE›

HOW A UK POP SONG HELPED FREE ICON

'Free Nelson Mandela' was effective for two reasons, Gambaccini said... READ MORE›

BOB DYLAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Thursday's announcement completed the annual Nobel Prize announcements... READ MORE›

CHINESE COMMUNITY JOINS S. AFRICANS IN MARKING MANDELA DAY BY HELPING THE POOR

The Chinese community in Cape Town joined South Africans on Tuesday in marking the Nelson Mandela International Day by helping the poor... READ MORE›

SOWETO UPRISING 40 YEARS ON: THE IMAGE THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD

But Zongezile Makhubo insists that, despite all the problems facing South Africa and Soweto 40 years after the uprising, he is hopeful... READ MORE›

TRIO WINS NOBEL CHEMISTRY PRIZE FOR 'WORLD'S SMALLEST MACHINES'

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa won the Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for work on molecular machines... READ MORE›

THE LEAFLET BOMBERS: THE BRITISH RECRUITS WHO FOUGHT APARTHEID FROM WITHIN

He would also tell them that they should not socialise with black South Africans so as not to arouse suspicion... READ MORE›