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.
Even the president of South Sudan recognizes that true independence has not been achieved, but China and Japan may help change that.
Horrific living conditions in a South Sudan refugee camp have sparked a humanitarian crisis, according to Doctors Without Borders.
In Sudan, the big protest is in progress. Media reports are still scant, but Twitter is chirping with updates.
The Chicago Bulls are shopping All-Star swing man Luol Deng around the league.
Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng said Sunday he sees truth behind rumors he'll be traded this off-season, admitting that if he were in charge of the team, he would be shopping players around as well.
Apple Inc. has become embroiled in controversy after reports that Atlanta-area Apple Store employees refused sale of iPads and other merchandise to Farsi speakers and people of Iranian descent. At the center of the accusations of racial profiling is how the company is interpreting the U.S. embargo on Iran.
Arab racism against black people is deeply-rooted and stretches back centuries.
Children in Syria were tortured, executed and used as human shields by the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime during military raids against rebels, a U.N. report released Monday said.
Israel received about 4,600 asylum applications from Africans last year, according to the U.S. State Department. About 3,700 were rejected, while only one was approved. The others are pending.
Sudan is demanding that July's African Union summit be moved after host nation Malawi said that President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was not welcome at the meeting.
South Sudanese President Silva Kiir is pleading with 75 government officials to return $4 billion in stolen public money.
This Friday marks the debut of the controversial documentary U.N. ME. The film investigates the hidden practices of the United Nations and argues that the 60-year-old organization isn't living up to its principles.
Sudan withdrew its troops from Abyei, the disputed, oil-rich region on the border with South Sudan, handing it over United Nations peacekeepers on Tuesday.
Representatives of Sudan and South Sudan met on Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to begin a new round of peace talks mediated by the African Union.
Researchers at the Russian security firm Karpersky have discovered a new highly sophisticated malicious program that has been used as a cyber weapon to collect private data from thousands of computers in Middle East countries like Iran and Israel and also in North Africa.
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki was in Khartoum on Friday to try and push Sudan and South Sudan back to the negotiation table.
More than four million people in South Sudan -- about half of the country's population -- face hunger and food shortages as clashes with Sudan along the border continue, according to the United Nations.
Ugandan officials have captured Caesar Acellam, a top commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army Saturday, dealing another blow to the increasingly weak militant group.
A total of 164 people arrived in South Sudan's capital city, and some 15,000 more will be moved from the Kosti refugee camp in the White Nile State to Khartoum, where they will board southbound planes by May 20.
South Sudan accused Northern Sudan of conducting new airstrikes and shelling within its territory in direct violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that aims to end hostilities between the two nations wrought from civil war.
Only hours after the alleged raid, Sudan pledged to cease hostilities with the South, warning it retained the right to defend itself against aggression from the south.
