SOUTH AFRICA

Nigeria's super rich are no strangers to conspicuous consumption, and there's no better way to flaunt your wealth than by buying a brand new European sports car.

On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.

On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.

Known as “Warriors” for their active involvement in social campaigns, the African ethnic people took up cricket as a tool to spread awareness about healthier lifestyles and HIV/AIDS amongst youth.

The current, unprecedented level of global youth unemployment has raised the risk of creating a lost generation, Nemat Shafik, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, wrote in a blog post Thursday.

Compiling a top five list from Sachin Tendulkar's 100 centuries is not easy. People will highly debate the ones you have missed when compiling the list, but everybody is entitled to their own choices and perspectives.

The whole of India is united in celebrating Sachin Tendulkar's hundredth century.

Sachin Tendulkar scored 100 international centuries during one-day of the India vs. Bangladesh Asia Cup cricket match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Friday. View the video and photos in the slideshow of Tendulkar reaching the hundred.

Former Welsh rugby union player Mervyn Davies died Thursday afternoon aged 65 after losing a long battle with cancer.

Greg Smith was a principled and competitive student, the kind of person whose strong sense of right and wrong probably pushed him to resign from Goldman Sachs in a scathing letter to an international newspaper, his former teacher and coach said.

Clint Eastwood has managed to keep his personal life out of Hollywood's hawk eye for decades, but all that is about to change after his wife and children have agreed to star in a reality show for E! Entertainment.

Charlize Theron can now add a new title to her resume, new mother. The upcoming Snow White and The Huntsman actress has just adopted a baby boy. A statement from the Oscar winners rep read, She is the proud mom of a healthy baby boy named Jackson.

Belgian doomsday survival author Patrick Geryl has made enough money to spend on preparing for a global catastrophe in 2012 by writing books about it and what other people can do to prepare.

Greg Smith, a.k.a. the modern-day Jerry Maguire, quit his job on Wednesday. This wouldn't be news if Smith weren't an executive director for Goldman Sachs, and nobody would have batted an eyelash if didn't publicly blast his company in a New York Times op-ed. But he was. And he did.

Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest internet company by revenue, plans to step up its expansion in social networking, search and e-commerce to attract more online advertisers as it looks to diversify from its competitive core gaming market.

Harmony Gold, South Africa's third-largest bullion miner, said on Tuesday it would consider a Hong Kong listing once its massive Wafi-Golpu project in Papua New Guinea is up and running in around 5 years time.

South Africa's Impala Platinum said on Wednesday that the Zimbabwean government would have to find the money to buy the 31 percent stake it wanted in its local unit Zimplats or the stake would not be transferred.

Black economic empowerment laws call for the transfer of about 25 percent of mining equity to black South Africans

Ghana's full-year gold production declined by a few percentage points last year but is expected to rise in 2012, the head of its Chamber of Mines said on Friday.

Global investors in search of high-dividend equity plays are heading to emerging markets, abandoning their view of these stocks as a predominantly growth-based investment.

A South African court on Friday largely dismissed an appeal from government and unions to roll back approval for Wal-Mart's $2.4 billion acquisition of Massmart , ending months of uncertainty about the status of the deal.