The 34-year-old was brought to Western Cape High Court in Cape Town in a police convoy on Tuesday after he was extradited from the UK at the end of a long legal battle. His wife Anni Dewani, 28, died when she was shot in the neck as the couple travelled ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday accused Russian agents of stirring unrest in eastern Ukraine that could be used as a pretext for military intervention. "What we see from Russia is an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and ...

Microsoft retires its 12-year-old Windows XP operating system on Tuesday. Here's what to do if you own a computer that uses it: — XP machines will still work, and you can install past security updates. But you won't get new ones to address new security flaws.

Hope you like big pictures on Twitter, because they are about to get a lot more important. Twitter unveiled its new profile page on Tuesday, with photos taking a more prominent role in the header (it spreads across the page), profile picture (it's larger), and the ...

Oscar Pistorius, leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. June Steenkamp, center, mother of the late Reeva ...

"All men must die" may be the tagline for the just-started fourth season of "Game of Thrones," but the show itself is in no danger of croaking any time soon. HBO announced on Tuesday that the hit fantasy drama would return for a fifth and sixth season. "'Game ...

A map provided by Comcast showing the service areas for Time Warner Cable and Comcast. Lauren Hertzler: Staff Writer- Philadelphia Business Journal: Email | Twitter. Two months after the cable giants announced their $45 billion deal to merge, Comcast ...

Global growth will remain "uneven" and risks being hampered by financial turbulence in emerging markets, according to the International Monetary Fund. While the IMF said economies faced fewer headwinds this year and next, the fund downgraded its ...

The father of murdered bride Anni Dewani said he has "not been able to sleep at night" since his daughter was killed on a honeymoon in South Africa. Vinod Hindocha told ITV News: "It's been very difficult for us to go ahead with our lives." ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Pop stars, actors and mechanics - these are just some of the people hoping to become MPs when the world's third largest democracy heads to the polls on Wednesday in a vote that will heavily influence who becomes Indonesia's next ...

Windows XP's day of reckoning is finally here -- it will no longer receive security updates after Tuesday -- which means users should upgrade their computers to a more recent operating system or purchase a new machine. Not all PCs can upgrade to ...

... Quotes. * Deadline for Ukraine gas payment expired at midnight. * EU officials say gas storage around half-full. * Questions raised over legality of reverse flow. * Ukraine major gas transit nation for EU supplies (Updates throughout with detail, end of talks).

Oscar Pistorius' emotional meltdown in court today - along with his crying and vomiting earlier in the trial - will likely have no effect on the judge's verdict, but could help Pistorius at his sentencing if he is found guilty, South African law experts said today.

South Africa yesterday charged extradited British businessman Shrien Dewani with ordering his wife's murder during their 2010 honeymoon in Cape Town and remanded him to a psychiatric hospital. After losing a three-year extradition fight, Dewani, 34, ...

Twitter has unveiled a redesign of its user interface that appears to be based heavily on Facebook's profile pages. The new web profile lets users upload a larger profile photo, customise their header (in a similar way to Facebook's 'cover photo'), and show off ...

Washington: The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for the global economy Tuesday, pointing to the threat from the Ukraine crisis and the slowdown in major emerging economies. The IMF said the world`s two largest economies, the United ...

Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia is creating a contrived crisis in Ukraine to destabilize the country. Kerry is expected to meet soon with top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in a new push to ease tensions. (April 8). Loading…

Twitter began the rollout Tuesday of a new look for its profile pages that is meant to highlight each user's best tweets. The redesign, which Twitter described in a blog post, is immediately available to new users and will be gradually rolled out to the rest of the ...

Primeval howls reverberated around a harrowed and transfixed court room as Oscar Pistorius tried but ultimately failed to describe the panic stricken moments that ended the life of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and changed his life forever. “She wasn't ...

Rose Komono poses for a picture at a health clinic after overcoming the Ebola virus in Gueckedou. Picture: Misha Hussain. Related Stories. Ghana tests blood samples from dead girl · Mali reports 3 suspected Ebola cases · Mali reports three possible Ebola ...