NELSON MANDELA

A South African judge on Friday decided not to extradite a son-in-law of former President Nelson Mandela to the United States, saying he doubted the merits of the U.S. rape case.

For Esther Moloto, the 32-year-old owner of a little house on top of the world's biggest platinum reserves, the sound of progress is falling plaster.

Sitting on the dusty steps of his local chief's house, Cyrus Edo is spending his third consecutive day trying to register to vote in Nigeria's upcoming elections.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a respiratory infection that led to his hospitalisation last week but doctors are worried there may be too many people trying to visit him.

South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday that hospitalized former president Nelson Mandela's health was improving and that there was no need to panic over his health, rubbishing speculation that the legendary leader was nearing his end.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela was flown from Cape Town to Milipark Hospital early this week where apparently Routine tests were being conducted but a beeline of his relatives from grandchildren to great-grandchildren raised eye brows about the health of the 92-year-old anti-apartheid hero.

Political and religious leaders dominate the list of men who are most admired in the U.S., according to a random phone survey of more than 1,000 U.S. residents.

Despite mounting international pressure, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe would run in the country’s polls likely to be scheduled for June next year. Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) unanimously endorsed him as a candidate for the elections on Saturday. The party cadres, along with their leader, also pledged for a ‘harmonious’ ballot in 2011.

Some of the names making rounds in Wikileaks' revelations are former South African president Nelson Mandela, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Libya's Colonel Gaddafi and former UK premier Gordon Brown.

The Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson sported a slim look recently. Spotted at a fundraising event of Weight Watcher's at a New York school, the 29-year-old singer-actor also said she couldn't wait to perform again.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will join efforts to improve access to education and the internet as part of pro bono work following Labour's election loss in May, his spokesman said on Thursday.

Yet another problem hit the gold mining business in South Africa with four illegal miners were killed in a shooting at an abandoned gold mine owned by relatives of former president Nelson Mandela and President Jacob Zuma. Mining industry in South Africa has been reeling under safety problems for the past several months and this latest deaths are bound to create hurdles in the mining sector in South Africa.

Renowned model Naomi Campbell has been granted special protection when she testifies at a UN war crimes tribunal on Thursday over claims that she was given a blood diamond by Liberia's former president Charles Taylor. The court ruled that no one may photograph or film the supermodel as she enters or exits the court building, or while she is in it. She will also have a lawyer on hand to make sure she does not say anything incriminating.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has applied for banning media coverage surrounding her as she prepares to give testimony in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Campbell is to appear in a court in The Hague on August 9 to answer questions about whether she was given a blood diamond by former Liberian dictator, Daily Mail online reported.

Once vilified, street art now carries a vast amount of cultural cache. Gone are the days when spray paint on a wall signified blight

JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told Syracuse University graduates on Sunday he was confident the United States would see a recovery in the short term, but the country's condition over the longer term was in the hands of the next generation.

Nelson Mandela celebrates the 20th anniversary of his release from prison on Thursday. Here are key dates in his life.

There was one prerequisite for journalists reporting on Nelson Mandela in the heady and chaotic days after his release from 27 years in South African jails.

Chanting Viva, Nelson Mandela, Viva, thousands of South Africans marked 20 years on Thursday since the anti-apartheid icon walked to freedom after 27 years as a political prisoner.

The harrowing tale of a struggling Harlem teen in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire earned a leading eight nominations for the NAACP Image awards on Wednesday.

The Screen Actors Guild has unveiled its nominees or the 16th annual SAG Awards to be held on January 23, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.