SOUTH AFRICA

President Putin ordered massive military drills at 4 a.m. Moscow time in the Black Sea on Thursday, sending a signal to the West that Russia's not going anywhere.

Nelson Mandela, South Africa's former president, has been re-admitted to a military hospital in Pretoria.

China and Brazil agreed to trade in each other's currencies in the amount of $30 billion per year over the next three years.

These five nations trade goods worth $282 billion a year with each other, and they want their own IMF and World Bank.

The leader of Seleka rebels who gained control of Bangui said Tuesday that he is suspending the constitution.

A Canadian vacationer in South Africa captured video of a newly married man almost killed by a shark while diving.

The new president of China's first visit to another continent is to Africa. The country: resource-rich Tanzania.

Egypt and India have little in common, but a closer relationship could propel surprising growth for both countries.

Swaziland has failed to produce enough food to feed itself for the past four decades.

South African Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier apologized for saying that child abusers should not be treated like criminals.

To mark the two-year anniversary of Syria's civil war that began on March 15, 2011, here’s a look at some of the conflict's statistics.

A roundup of front page headlines around the world heralding the announcement that Jorge Bergoglio would be Pope Francis.

Corruption cost Africa hundreds of billions in the last decade, a study shows, depriving the poorest continent of capital sorely needed for development.

At sunset, the sun's low position makes light travel on a longer path, scattering blue and green away from our vision.

An 8-year-old boy marries a 61-year-old woman after his dead ancestors told him to do it.

South Africa's so-called Blade Runner has already incurred legal costs of at least £200,000 ($300,000).

Women in South Africa are regularly abused by a male culture that prizes macho men and weapons. But it's virtually taboo to talk about it.

As the Oscar Pistorius case unfolds in South Africa, another case of a celebrity athlete and a dead girlfriend has concluded in Brazil.

Coetzee ran his squad of killers from a farm called Vlakplaas outside Pretoria during 1980 and 1981.

The yen's slide is an effort to jump-start Japan, but holders of the dollar, won, Euro, yuan and other currencies see it as an act of aggression.

Great white sharks will now be protected under California’s Endangered Species Act starting on Friday. The state Fish and Game Commission approved the designation in February, forbidding the hunting, pursuing, catching, capturing or killing of the animal.