Considering her South African roots and the many serious challenges facing the African Union today, Dlamini-Zuma will be under intense scrutiny in the coming weeks.
Up until now, Obama has generally enjoyed broad popularity in India – a country he has long been linked to, both personally and professionally.
Not much is clear about Tony Blair's new role in South Sudan: Is it humanitarian or an investment? Can he change negative policies or will be grow Juba's stalled economy?
65 years after independence from Great Britain, cricket (a foreign import and a remnant of colonialism) is more popular in India and Pakistan than ever.
A compelling question concerning the nation's current political culture is: what has happened to the Republican Party? President Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party's first president, elected in 1860. But do the values of today's Tea Party faction-dominated Republican Party match the values of Lincoln?
China's aging and diminishing population is not a surprise, but experts lament that little is being done to prepare society for its effects.
As Thai citizens become increasingly involved in their country's political processes, the very presence of a dynastically appointed king begins to look more and more anachronistic.
Luxury homeowners are panicking at the prospect of paying millions of dollars more in capital gains taxes from next year. Their soaring desperation could eventually cripple housing prices.
The practice of arranged marriage remains widespread in India, across all religions, ethnic groups and social classes.
This summer, both Greece and Europe are between a rock and a hard place. Greece faces the possible prospect of domestic coalition collapse, or ouster from the euro zone; Europe’s leaders, an elongated repayment for their loans to Greece, or a Greece default.
Assam has witnessed other public assaults on women that sparked outrage.
Reported incidents of discrimination by Apple Store employees against people of Iranian descent are increasing, raising the likelihood that what appeared to be a few cases of prejudice may turn into a legal and diplomatic scandal. Further, the company's virtual non-response to the reports exposes it to being played by Tehran, which has already become involved.
Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, elected 11 directors at its annual meeting Thursday, including three nominated by former dissident shareholder Third Point Capital.
Namibia is sending 148 wild animals overseas to Cuba, where they will become residents of the National Zoological Park outside of Havana.
The swastika is considered a harbinger of good luck and well being in India.
A new base for Al Qaeda has emerged in the heart of the African Sahel, where no state army has yet been able to contest its presence.
The story of U.S. involvement in Laos is much more complex than it seems -- the poor Asian country once played a vital role in one of the most regrettable U.S. military interventions of the 20th century.
Francois Hollande, was mocked by his own French media for looking like a ?dwarf? while standing amongst Her Majesty?s Coldstream Guards regiment during his first official visit to London.
The Nigerian Supreme Court ruled that the sale of a Nigerian aluminum enterprise to Russian conglomerate RUSAL was in fact illegal. Instead, Nigeria's ALSCON should have gone to the original highest bidder: a U.S. firm called BFI.
It isn?t every day that Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), the No. 1 chipmaker, buys into one of its top suppliers, ASML Holding (Nasdaq: ASML), the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker.
In another triumph of digital medial over legacy media, Buzzmedia said Tuesday that it would buy Spin Media LLC, the 27-year-old music magazine that chronicled the rise of alternative rock in the 1990s.
Years before leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales was elected to office in 2006, he chaired the country's coca growers union, a post which he was recently re-elected to and has held since 1996.
The late King Hussein of Jordan titled his autobiography ?Uneasy Lies the Head.? That could be the title Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), the ailing BlackBerry developer, could use for his book, too.
The Mughal empire, which at its peak ruled a vast expanse of territory from Bengal in the east to Baluchistan in the west, was deeply influenced by Persian culture and especially its poetry.
North Korea's now got its own version of the loveable Disney pantheon, but the phenomenon is revealing of much more than Americanization across the globe.
Libya?s new ?liberal? government may distance itself from the West and from NATO, which helped rebels free the country from Moammar Gadhafi.
Widespread poverty, an under-educated populace, underpaid police, extensive criminal gangs, vigilante justice, lynchings and corrupt politicians all conspire to make rural Bihar a dangerous place.
Russia isn't the first place that comes to mind when thinking of free speech, but that's exactly where the second World Media Summit was held. Attendees including BBC and CNN heard about a free press from Vladimir Putin, and about world harmony from the North Koreans.
The Beatles and Rolling Stones were inadvertently stepping into a vacuum ? the biggest rock star in the world, Elvis Presley, was inducted into the army in 1962.
Many small businesses have been paying nearly twice the amount for half the health care benefits that they are entitled to provide their employees. However, under the new health care mandate, health insurance will be more affordable for small companies.
