South Africa’s ailing icon Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital for 10 days suffering a lung infection, is “doing very well”, one of his daughters said on Monday. “He is doing very well,” Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina, told reporters gathered outside the Pretoria hospital treating the 94-year-old Mandela. ...

A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press. Michael Karkoc, 94, told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, con ...

Khan committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at around 11:45pm in a bedroom of her Juhu residence in Mumbai on the Monday, June 3, 2013. Her body was taken to the casualty morgue of the Dr R.N. Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle. Police later sent the body to the JJ Hospital in Byculla, for a forensic examination and autopsy. Her body was brought back to her residence around 7am on Wednesday, Jun ...

South Africans on Saturday said their thoughts were with former President Nelson Mandela, who was in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection. Mandela, who is 94 years old, was treated in a hospital several times in recent months, with the last discharge coming on April 6 after doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and drained fluid from his ...

48 people have been killed in a bus fire in southeastern China, and is being investigated as a “serious criminal case”, state media said on Saturday, just days after 120 people died in a fire at a poultry plant. The bus caught fire during rush hour on Friday as it was operating on elevated tracks in the coastal city of Xiamen, the official Xinhua news agency reported, without elaborating on the cause. The c ...

Michael Adebolajo has been charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death in Woolwich, southeast London, last month. Sky News says Adebolajo, 28, is also accused of the attempted murder of two police officers and possessing a firearm. Another man, Michael Adebowale, 22, has already been charged with murdering the young soldier and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Monday. Meanwhil ...

The findings of China’s first major study on the lives of the nation’s 185 million elderly make for gloomy reading. The results of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study show 22.9% of Chinese over 60 live in poverty, 38.1% have difficulty completing daily activities on their own, and 40% show high symptoms of depression. But speaking at the launch in Beijing on Friday, the leaders of the study — ...

Nick and Wendy Lowe were married at the Wellington Naturist Club on Saturday in a “clothing optional” wedding, reported local newspaper The Dominion Post. About half of the 120 guests were nude. Both clothed and naked photos were taken, and though guests were asked to dress for dinner, the dancing portion of the event was clothing optional. Nick encouraged Wendy to embrace the “naturism,” or nudist, lifesty ...

When a pregnant teacher in Texas collapsed, her coworkers rushed to help. The woman technically died, gave birth and then was brought back to life. Erica Nigrelli, an English teacher at Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, collapsed in a co-worker's classroom when she was 36 weeks pregnant. "Apparently I told her, 'I feel very faint,' and I put my head down and I essentially just passed out," Erica N ...

An 87-year-old World War II veteran has parachuted from a plane in an Ohio to support his ailing great-grandson. Clarence Turner of Fairfield made the jump Saturday with an instructor. He says he wanted to generate attention for the plight of 10-month-old Julian Couch, who suffers from a lung disease that could require a transplant. WLWT of Cincinnati reports that Julian is hospitalized in Columbus. A fundr ...

Evidence emerged last night that one of the suspects involved in the killing of the British soldier Lee Rigby was well known to anti-terror police and the security services for at least three years before the brutal Woolwich attack. Michael Adebolajo was arrested in Kenya under suspicion of being at the centre of an al-Qa’ida-inspired plot in 2010, The Independent on Sunday yesterday revealed. He was one of ...

Pakistani police say a gas cylinder blast on a school bus has killed at least 17 children in eastern Pakistan. Police officer Mohammed Rasheed says seven children were also injured Saturday when the faulty gas cylinder exploded on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat. He says the dead and injured children were going to school at the time. Gujrat is located about 200 kilometers (120 miles) southeast of the ca ...

McDonald's and the Parma-based pasta maker Barilla have joined forces to bring a touch of the Mediterranean to a Big Mac and fries. In a partnership that reflects the conflicting currents of the globalised food market, branches of McDonald's in Italy will from Friday offer a €4.90 pasta salad described as pennette pasta with "a balanced and skilful mix of tuna, tomatoes, peppers, capers and olives, seasoned ...

Johannesburg – An Alberton guesthouse manager says she was assaulted by a group of drunk guests when she told them not to make a noise over the weekend, but they accused her of using a racial slur against them. Leslie Rabie told The Star that she had heard a commotion just after midnight on Sunday morning and went to investigate. She found a group of around 20 people at the pool of the Michelle Corporate Gu ...

A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina is expected to survive after shooting himself with his father’s gun over the weekend. Randolph County deputies said that the toddler found the handgun in his parents’ room at their home just outside Asheboro around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The boy put the gun in his mouth and fired it. According to WGHP, the boy was listed in critical condition Brenner Children’s Hospital in Wi ...

In an unfortunate turn of events in a Malaysian rape case, a 40-year-old man accused of rape has married the teenage victim. Riduan Masmud was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl last February. On Monday, his counsel Loretto Padua revealed to the court that Masmud is now married to the young girl he was accused of assaulting. As The Daily Express notes, Padua had previously told the court that Masmud was ...

Forbes magazine on Wednesday released its annual list of 100 most powerful women in the world. German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped the list for the seventh time in eight years, outranking President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, who came in second. Third and fourth were Melinda Gates and Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton in fifth. The magazine selected 100 most influential women from seven categories or pow ...

Two men wielding a machete and a cleaver hacked a man believed to be a soldier to death on a busy London street Wednesday while yelling "Allahu Akbar," in an attack that was caught on video and left the nation shocked and horrified. The victim, who some reports said may have been a soldier, was killed at the scene, and the attackers waited at the scene until police arrived and shot both. One attacker, his h ...

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest -- although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week. Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 29,035-foot peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, according to a Nepalese mountai ...

A 48-year-old man claims to be Jesus and that he came back to save the world. Phetole Selepe, from Dan village, South Africa, claims he is Jesus Christ and was sent by his ancestors to save the world. Selepe has been living on the banks of the Letaba River which is located in the Eastern Limpopo Province of South Africa, since 2004, where he performed his rituals. Although he was arrested more than eight ti ...