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Prominent South African musician Sipho Mabuse has decided to go to school again at the age of 60, media reports said on Monday.
A popular rock, funk, soul and jazz performer, Mabuse currently shows up five days a week at a school in the suburbs of Johannesburg.
Speaking to journalists last week, Mabuse expressed hope that his example will prompt his neighbors to get education and tackle poverty.
(TASS)
Two orphaned Russian siblings Kelly and Cloe, known in Russia as Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov, have been temporarily placed with a new US foster family, after years of abuse by their adoptive American parents.
Red tape led to the lack of adequate infrastructure which significantly increased Oklahoma tornado death toll.
US President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing greater congressional oversight on the use of drones.
"It is a meeting of Syria's enemies, or friends of Israel," the Syrian ambassador to Jordan, Bahjat Suleiman, said in a rare news conference hours before the "Friends of Syria" group meets in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks.
Despite the three arguably worst scandals to hit President Obama during his presidency, most Americans say the president is still an honest and trustworthy guy, according to a recently released CNN/ORC International poll. A majority, 58 percent, of Americans polled say Obama is honest and 52 percent say he can manage the government efficiently. So how has Obama seemingly dodged a PR bullet?
After decades of international pressure Japanese politicians finally reached a unanimous decision to join the Hague Convention, which abides prompt return of kidnapped children to the countries where they normally reside in cross-border custody disputes.
Iran denied on Wednesday any link to members of a spying ring detained by its Sunni Muslim regional rival Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media.
A European Union summit scheduled to set a year-end deadline to clamp down on tax evasion opened Wednesday with leaders seeking to recoup a trillion euros lost each year in tax fraud, while revamping the bloc's energy policy.
The FBI confirmed that a special agent was conducting “official duties” when he shot and killed a man whom FBI interviewed in recent weeks about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
The world's largest ever installation featuring 48 portraits of Russian women is on display as part of the “Face and Soul” exhibition at the Historical Museum in Moscow.
Analysts are racking their brains about the intrigue behind an international defense conference slated to begin in Moscow on Thursday. Entitled “Military and Political Aspects of European Security”, the meeting will bring together defense chiefs from the CIS, CSTO and NATO member states for two days of debates which, according to some experts, may have to do with the planned Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad-2013 and NATO’s Steadfast Jazz army drills in Eastern Europe.
Сitizens of the former Soviet republics will have to use their foreign travel passports to enter Russia as of January 1st 2015, the Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, told a news briefing in Moscow earlier today. The official opposed the introduction of a visa regime or entering Russia by invitation.
The Islamic Development Bank has temporarily suspended Syria’s membership, IDB President Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al Madani announced Wednesday.
Russia's joining the World Trade Organization should teach it how to manage production costs, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will go on trial from July 9 for manslaughter over the January 2012 disaster in which 32 people lost their lives, an Italian judge ruled on Wednesday.
In just two years UK police collected DNA samples of more than 120.000 children in just two years, at least a thousand of whom were 10 year-olds. The sampled youngsters have not committed any crime, but now that their DNA is UK police’s database their genetic data will be stored for years.
Unknown gunmen shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad, security and medical officials said.
Turkey locks down border with Syria
