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President Barack Obama announces new power initiative for Africa By Julie Pace Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Challenging African youth to seize a “moment of great promise,” President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela’s vision for equality […]

Three habitable planets found orbiting nearby star Gliese 667C 22 light years away By Eric Brown International Business Times According to the European Southern Observatory’s announcement, the three planets exist inside Gliese 667C’s habitable zone, the region that is neither too hot nor too cold to sustain liquid water, meaning that the planets may be […]

European Union to open membership talks with Serbia European leaders agree on opening accession talks with Serbia by January, as bloc continues to enlarge to the east. Al Jazeera European Union leaders have agreed to open EU membership talks with Serbia by January as the bloc continued to enlarge to the east. The EU president, […]

South Africa: R56bn (US $5.55 billion) train deal gets the green light By Anna Cox The Star The R56 billion ($5.55 billion US), 10-year project to replace and transform South Africa’s passenger rail industry into a world-class service is going ahead. A recent visit by The Star to Alstom, the company that forms part of […]

China’s Shenzhou-10 astronauts return to Earth BBC News A capsule carrying three Chinese astronauts has landed safely after a 15-day mission in space. The astronauts travelled on the Shenzhou-10 craft to China’s space laboratory, the Tiangong-1. They completed manual docking exercises and astronaut Wang Yaping gave a video lecture to students back on Earth. The […]

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act of 1965 By Adam Liptak The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, ruling that Congress had not provided adequate justification for subjecting nine states, […]

ONGC, Oil India to Pay $2.5 Billion for Mozambique Field Stake By Rakteem Katakey Bloomberg Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd. (OINL), India’s biggest state-run explorers, will pay $2.5 billion to buy a stake in a Mozambique natural gas field from Videocon Industries Ltd. (VCLF) The two Indian companies will buy […]

Orania, a town white with fear Sapa-AFP Welcome to Orania, South Africa: a whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid. The town in the sparsely populated Karoo region is inhabited only by Afrikaners. These descendants of Dutch-speaking migrants who arrived in South Africa in 1652 with Jan van Riebeeck, now make […]

Sydney’s most expensive hotel room could be at the Star at Pyrmont Lucy Carroll The Sydney Morning Herald SYDNEY- Personal butlers, an infinity pool, a private sauna and massage room – that’s what $25,000 ($23,007 US) A a night will buy you in the Star casino’s proposed luxury villas for high rollers. Five of the […]

Top U.S universities for federal R&D grants  By Monica Vendituoli OpenSecrets.org Federal research and development funds benefit a disproportionately small number of universities which in turn spend disproportionately on lobbying and campaign contributions. A study by the National Science Foundation found that about 20 percent of the more than $40 billion in federal funds given […]