Embattled youth leader Julius Malema said Friday he was preparing for life outside the ruling ANC and possibly in prison, but refused to back down from his call to nationalise South Africa's mines.

Whitney Houston died today at just 48 years old. The singer's nearly 30-year career was marked with hundreds of musical hits and awards including two Emmys, six Grammys, and over 20 American Music Awards. She was scheduled to perform at today's pre-Grammys party, which is an annual event thrown by her mentor Clive Davis. Look back at Whitney's life with friends like Mariah Carey, her amazing ...

Company says two sides could not agree on price, while analysts doubt rival Resolution will return to the fray Life insurer Phoenix has fallen back after calling off takeover talks. The company, a closed life fund specialist formerly known as Pearl, pulled out of discussions with private equity group CVC because it could not agree on price. It said it was not in talks with any other parties, and ...

A few years back, longtime New Yorker Douglas Heck was semi-retired and trying to figure out what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. He loved his house in Amityville, Long Island, but was ready to try something new.

Khadija Williams says growing up poor in an east Erie public housing complex, she was supposed to become a statistic. Instead, she's a lawyer who plans one day to be Erie County's first African-American judge.

Bayern Munich are looking to close the two-point gap behind German league leaders Borussia Dortmund and face up to life without Bastian Schweinsteiger when they host Kaiserslautern on Saturday.

Stories That Soar! is back for its second annual collaboration with MAKE , the Bisbee youth arts festival at Central School. Stories that Soar! programs offer children an open invitation to write about anything they choose. The Stories That Soar! Magic Box is currently at the Bisbee Public Library and is “hungry” for children’s stories and wants to magically bring them to life. Children can come ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The oppressive world of Communist East Germany was brought back to life in a haunting new film called "Barbara" at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, the first of three German productions in the main competition. A fictional tale of a young doctor banished to the East German provinces because she requested to move to West Germany, the film set in 1980 is a sedate portrait ...

The actress plays a National Guard soldier back home from deployment overseas in the writer-director's first feature film. In the new film "Return," Linda Cardellini plays Kelli, a National Guard soldier just returned to her small hometown from deployment overseas. As she struggles to fit into the routines her husband and two young daughters have established during her absence, she soon falls ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Kosovo-Albanian man who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport last March was sentenced to life in prison by German court on Friday. Arid Uka, a 22-year-old who was raised in Germany, had confessed to the attack and said he acted after seeing a video apparently showing U.S. soldiers raping Muslim women. Wearing a black hooded ...