Spector settled in Johannesburg after a career as a US diplomat in Africa and East Asia. He has taught at the U. of the Witwatersrand, been a consultant for an international NGO, run a theatre, and been a commentator for South African and international ...

Pro-Russian leaders in eastern Ukraine have said that voters in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions turned out en masse and overwhelmingly supported independence. Authorities in Kyiv, the EU and US do not recognize the vote. Members of a local election ...

Paris (AFP) - Scientists on Sunday said they had used a harmless electrical current to modify sleep so that an individual has "lucid dreams," a particularly powerful form of dreaming. The discovery provides insights into the mechanism of dreaming -- an area ...

Milan coach Clarence Seedorf praised his players for continuing with their Serie A match after a banana was thrown on to the pitch during their 2-1 defeat at Atalanta on Sunday. The banana landed near Milan's Guinean defender Kevin Constant who picked it ...

Humanity has known about lucid dreams for as long as we've been dreaming. But not until this weekend have scientists even come close to describing how to make them happen. Unless, of course, all this is just a dream. According to a study published this ...

The United Nations is leading a high-level effort this week to improve the way aircraft are tracked to address public concerns over the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet. But the official response to missing Flight MH370 and a similar event in ...

Israel on Sunday joined the international effort to trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria but Washington said US troops would stay out of any rescue mission. A child shows a placard during a demonstration in Geneva on ...

LOS ANGELES: It is a long way from the rough streets of south Los Angeles to becoming the world's richest hip-hop star. But that is the path likely set to be taken by Andre Young – better known as Dr. Dre – helped by some very cool headphones.

The chairman of the Samsung business empire was reportedly in stable condition at a Seoul hospital Sunday after suffering a heart attack. The Wall Street Journal reported that hospital staff said the 72-year-old Lee Kun-hee was sent to the Samsung Medical ...

Apple is in negotiations to buy Beats Electronics, the audio company that's known for its pricey Beats By Dre headphones, for an astounding $3.2 billion. Although you've undoubtedly seen the large, trendy headphones a time or two, you may never have ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president said Sunday his country would not surrender what it considers its right to nuclear development in upcoming talks with world powers, but that it would be "transparent" in negotiations over the contested program. The talks ...

The new Google logo today, or the so-called Google Doodles, is celebrating what would have been the 104th birthday of British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin. Born 1910, Hodgkin was credited with the development of X-ray crystallography, the tool used to ...

One city has just eight polling stations for half a million people in the controversial vote branded illegal by Kiev and the West. 3:59pm UK, Sunday 11 May 2014. People stand in a line to cast ballots into a portable ballot box during the referendum.

yemen A soldier stands next to a military vehicle blocking Al-Sabeen street. Photograph: Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters. One of the two officers at the US embassy in Yemen who shot and killed a pair of suspected al-Qaida gunmen was getting a haircut at a ...

Washington (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a closed-door fundraiser in South Carolina Friday and delivered what one attendee called “an Elizabeth Warren-type speech” about the struggles of America's middle class, remarks that were ...

Washington: Chris Brown did not confess to Washington DC assault by admitting that he violated the probation in Rihanna case, it has been revealed. The singer`s attorney Mark Geragos told a website that when the `Run It` singer admitted to a probation ...

Washington: Chris Brown did not confess to Washington DC assault by admitting that he violated the probation in Rihanna case, it has been revealed. The singer`s attorney Mark Geragos told a website that when the `Run It` singer admitted to a probation ...

Samsung's chairman has had an emergency operation after suffering a heart attack. Lee Kun-Hee, 72, was admitted to a hospital near his home in Seoul on Saturday night after experiencing respiratory problems which were later diagnosed as "acute cardiac ...

This book enriches the understanding of the nuclear program that Iran claims is meant for peaceful... Now R577.00 buy now. Tehran - Iran will not accept "nuclear apartheid" but is willing to offer more transparency over its atomic activities, President Hassan ...

Nintendo has apologised and pledged to be more inclusive after being criticised for not recognising same-sex relationships in English editions of a life-simulator video game. Also in this Section. 'Risk of civil war' in Thailand · Jackson has cancer growth ...