Hospital patients are more likely to die after surgery if they are treated by nurses who don't have a bachelor's degree, a study has found. Researchers followed up more than 420,000 patients from 300 hospitals across Europe and discovered that staff training ...

Sevastopol, the Ukrainian town in Crimea where Russia operates a military base is now a political hot potato between the two countries. Russian links run deep here and many oppose the pro-EU Maidan wave that toppled Viktor Yanukovych. Moscow is ...

A woman speaks on the phone as she walks by a Mobile World Congress entrance in Barcelona. The GSMA Mobile World Congress represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry. (REUTERS). MWC: Samsung, Sony, Nokia and all ...

Some SABC staffers say the Communication Workers' Union's support of its acting COO, as the "Hlaudi Motsoeneng Coalition", would badly affect workers. SABC's acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G).

Antonis Samaras is set to become the new prime minister of Greece. The 62-year-old's New Democracy party achieved the highest percentage of votes in Sundays election, beating the radical left Syriza party into second place. The leader believes it was a ...

FILE PICTURE: South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius (3rd L) stands next to his sister Aimee (L) and his brother Carl (2nd L), as he appears at the Magistrate Court in Pretoria . AFP PHOTO. Yesterday's ruling that the Oscar Pistorius murder trial ...

Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, right, and pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class in a program to educate children about nutrition and health. Researchers found that obesity among children ages 2 to 5 dropped - to 8 percent ...

Olympiakos boss Michel has warned that a 2-0 first-leg lead is "not enough" for his team to ensure a Champions League quarter-final place at the expense of Manchester United. The Greek champions secured a fully deserved win in Athens on Tuesday ...

With the shutdown of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox -- once the world's largest exchange for digital currency transactions -- other companies in the Bitcoin universe worked to defend the nascent industry's reputation. Reports that hackers may have pilfered more than ...

David Moyes offered no defence for Manchester United's woeful defeat against Olympiacos on a night when Roy Keane claimed that the manager will be “shocked at the quality he is working with”. United's hopes of reaching the Champions League ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — THE conventional wisdom about Syria is that nothing can be done. It is said that military action would be either perverse — bringing the jihadists in the opposition to power — or futile, failing to tip the balance against the government of ...

GUNMEN suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday, opened fire on students of Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, in their sleep at their hostel, with over 40 students said to have been killed in the attack. Casualty figures ...

It was a long four days for Mac users waiting for Apple Inc. to issue a fix for a critical security flaw in Macintosh computers. The security bug, dubbed “gotofail,” left users vulnerable to account hijacking and potential eavesdropping, CNET says. The OS X ...