Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January.
South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. De Klerk, left the hospital Monday after recovering from complications following surgery for colon cancer.
One commuter train rear-ended another, killing one passenger and injuring 42 others, rescue officials said Saturday.
The ashes of executed Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams were spread in a lake in South Africa in accordance with his will, a friend said.
The European Union proposed a radical overhaul of the continent's cherished wine industry Thursday, a move meant to ensure the survival of vintners hit hard in recent years by growing competition from Chile, the U.S., South Africa and others.
President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a march Friday in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end apartheid.
Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist regime whose legacy still haunts the nation.
A one-day national strike organized by the main trade union movement to protest poverty and unemployment hit production in South Africa's mining and car-manufacturing industries Thursday and had a patchy response in other sectors.
Scientists have found a chemical that might one day prove critical in the ongoing fight against germs that have developed resistance to existing antibiotics.
Former Deputy President Jacob Zuma will resume his duties as the deputy leader of the ruling African National Congress following his acquittal on rape charges, the party said Monday.
A day after he was acquitted of rape, former Deputy President Jacob Zuma apologized Tuesday for having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman but denied he had harmed South Africa's AIDS prevention efforts.
A man who once seemed in line to be South Africa's next president was acquitted of rape Monday in the country's most politically charged trial since the end of apartheid.
A judge began reading his verdict Monday in the rape trial of former Deputy President Jacob Zuma, following testimony that has sent mixed messages on AIDS and sexual violence in South Africa.
A bulk carrier sank off the South African coast and rescuers were searching for 27 crewmen who remained missing Thursday, officials said.
South Africa proposed new laws Tuesday that would end the "canned hunting" of wildlife bred in captivity to be shot in closed reserves by wealthy tourists.
The most sensational trial since the end of apartheid closed Tuesday with defense demands for former Deputy President Jacob Zuma to be acquitted of charges he raped an HIV-positive family friend.
Strini Moodley, one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement during South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle, died Thursday after a brief illness, his family said. He was 60.
South Africa's most politically explosive trial since the end of apartheid neared a conclusion Wednesday, with the prosecution describing as "fanciful" an assertion by former Deputy President Jacob Zuma that he had consensual sex with the woman who has accused him of rape.
An international AIDS conference ended Wednesday with impassioned appeals to political and pharmaceutical industry leaders to fund development of a virus-killing gel to protect women from the disease and so save millions of lives.
Australia's Paul Gow won his third career Nationwide Tour title Sunday, closing with a bogey-free 3-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over South Africa's Craig Lile in the inaugural Athens Regional Foundation Classic.
An appeals court ruled that a woman ordered deported to South Africa after her husband of 11 months was killed in a car crash has the right to apply to live in the United States.
Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma testified Tuesday at his rape trial that his accuser led him to believe she wanted sex by lamenting she had no boyfriend and wearing a skirt when she visited his house.
A senior South African policeman went on a shooting rampage, killing eight people — including a 2-year-old baby — before being shot dead by colleagues Tuesday, police said. A pedestrian was killed during a police chase of the suspect.
The man once groomed to be South Africa's next president defended himself Monday against charges that he raped an HIV-positive family friend, arguing that they had consensual sex.
The day the trial opened, the woman who accuses a former South African deputy president of rape was hustled in under heavy guard, her face hidden under a cloth. The politician's supporters have burned photographs of her outside the courtroom — even though her identity was meant to be a secret — and depicted her as a traitor and a tramp.