Now that Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has released her long-awaited report on the spending of taxpayers' money to upgrade President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead, the country waits with bated breath for Zuma's response, writes Legalbrief. The DA ...

U.S. scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of a birdlike species of dinosaur with no teeth, a beak, claws and a bony crest atop its head. Scientists from Carnegie and Smithsonian museums and the University of Utah have officially labeled the new ...

Video; Video. 'Promising' lead in plane search 5:30. Play video. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/. The AMSA says RAAF aircraft are investigating objects 'as large as 24 metres' in the search for MH370. Sky News; 20 Mar 2014; News. Two objects ...

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp., headed to a record profit, can afford the $1.2 billion fine levied by the U.S. government for hiding information about defects in its cars. If anything, the settlement may even deliver relief for Toyota shareholders and customers as a ...

A demonstration in Taiwan over the trade-in-services agreement signed with China took a dramatic twist Tuesday after a group of protesters comprising mostly students stormed through police lines and occupied the Legislative Yuan. As the standoff continues ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Four military search planes were dispatched Thursday to determine whether two large objects bobbing in a remote part of the Indian Ocean are debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. One of the objects spotted by ...

Google Corporation has recently introduced Android Wear. This is a new platform designed for portable gadgets like smart watches. Apparently, the company's experts are sure that this is a promising direction since the amount of portable gadgets powered by ...

For the past decade, dinosaur scientists have been puzzling over a set of fossil bones they variously describe as weird and bizarre. Now they've figured out what animal they belonged to: a bird-like creature they're calling "the chicken from Hell." There are two ...

(CNN) -- Ukraine's navy commander, detained when pro-Russian supporters took over the naval headquarters in Crimea, has been released, the presidential website said Thursday. Amid signs the uneasy standoff between pro-Russian and Ukrainian forces ...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Four men were found guilty on Thursday of the gang-rape of a photojournalist last year in Mumbai, an attack that sparked street protests in the city and raised fresh questions about attitudes to women in the world's largest ...

"We have over the past two decades of democracy laid the foundation for South Africa to be a better place to live in and do business," President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. The president made the statement will attending the Premier Business Awards in ...

Scientists have dubbed it "the chicken from hell" - and you would not want one loose in your hen coop. Also in this section. Breeder snaps up £1.7m mastiffs · Dame Vera to release new album · 'Chicken-like' dinosaur revealed. The long-legged, 10ft (3 metre) ...

New Delhi: Flappy Bird maker Nguyen Ha Dong, in a reply to a tweet, has confirmed that he will bring the game back, but that is not going to happen anytime soon. Dong earlier talked about its plans to bring the game back in an interview with Rolling Stone.

INDIAN OCEAN - In this handout Satellite image made available by the AMSA (Australian Maritime Safety Authority) on March 20, 2014, objects that may be possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are shown in a revised area 185 km to ...

A bird-like dinosaur nicknamed 'chicken from hell' that roamed the earth with deadly T. Rex 66 million years ago has been unearthed. Scientists from Carnegie and Smithsonian museums and the University of Utah have named the sharp-clawed, 500-pound ...

The plane of United Nation's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has touched down in Moscow, his spokesperson said a few moments ago. The UN chief is due to meet Thursday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a tweet ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and world powers locked horns on Wednesday over the future of a planned Iranian nuclear reactor that could yield plutonium for bombs as the United States warned "hard work" will be needed to overcome differences when the sides ...

With the third anniversary of the start of Syria's civil war having just passed, there is a race against time to deliver a groundbreaking education project to the conflict's hardest-hit victims – hundreds of thousands of child refugees. A shocking 3 million Syrian ...

The Department of Justice announced a record $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota in a criminal probe of its handling of sudden acceleration complaints. The criminal charge claims Toyota defrauded consumers via misleading safety statements. Toyota Motor ...

WASHINGTON — Toyota, making an unusual admission of wrongdoing involving defects that caused vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly and resulted in deaths, agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle an investigation by the US government. Attorney General Eric ...