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Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is not 'doing well' but is continuing to put up a courageous fight from his 'deathbed,' members of his family have told the South African Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Wednesday that one of its commanders has been "assassinated" outside of his home in southern Beirut, blaming Israel for his killing.

East Timor will go before the Permanent Court of Arbitration on Thursday and use the alleged espionage to challenge the validity of a bilateral agreement struck with Australia in 2006 over sharing seabed oil and gas reserves between the countries.

Do you pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd? Do you refer to multiple people as "dey"? Is a jelly doughnut called a "bismark," or is everything that comes out of a soda fountain called a coke, even if it's really 7-Up? Do you root for Da Bears? The way we speak, both the phrases we use and the accents that inflect those phrases, come from our upbringings.

A woman walks past a graffiti of later Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon, on December 3, 2013.

Diplomats vexed over Afghanistan's future applied new pressure on the war-torn nation's leaders Tuesday to agree to allow thousands of foreign troops to remain there beyond next year, or risk being left with no international military force assistance.

Anyone who's ever wanted to look, or dress like a princess will have the opportunity on Tuesday, when one of Princess Diana's most "fairytale" frocks goes under the hammer at Kerry Taylor Auction House in London.

Teens from Asian nations dominated a global exam given to 15-year-olds, while U.S. students showed little improvement and failed to reach the top 20 in math, science or reading, according to test results released Tuesday.

Six decades before he went to North Korea as a curious tourist, Merrill Newman supervised a group of South Korean guerrillas during the Korean War who were perhaps the most hated and feared fighters in the North, former members of the group say.

Top trade officials began talks Tuesday that will either produce an eleventh hour deal that could boost the global economy by $1 trillion or possibly spell the end of the World Trade Organization's relevance as a forum for negotiations.

A power blackout briefly darkened all of Venezuela's capital Monday night, and the government says other parts of the country also lost electricity.

Members of the emergency services prepare to form a guard of honour as the wreckage of the police Eurocopter is taken away They were identified as Robert Jenkins, 61 and Mark O'Prey, 44, both from East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, 33-year-old Colin Gibson of Ayr, South Ayrshire, and John McGarrigle, 57, from Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire.

A policeman closes a window during a demonstration in downtown Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, in 2009.

Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sept.

Hundreds of Islamic militants in trucks and a stolen armored personnel carrier attacked an air force base on the outskirts of a Nigerian city before dawn Monday, officials and witnesses said, possibly leaving scores of people dead in one of the insurgent group's most daring attacks ever.

Already in wide use as a hashtag on Twitter, it's an intriguing invention - linguistically rooted in both East and West, elusive to translate and an insightful glimpse into the country's troubled politics.

Within minutes of opening a Twitter account this past week, the leader of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group received an onslaught of criticism.

In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Chinese director Zhang Yimou poses during a photo call for his film "The Flowers of War" at the 62nd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin.

Two of Saudi Arabia's best-known female advocates for lifting the ban on women driving were detained on Friday after being caught behind the wheel in the country's capital.

A protest by about 300,000 Ukrainians angered by their government's decision to freeze integration with the West turned violent Sunday, when a group of demonstrators besieged the president's office and police drove them back with truncheons, tear gas and flash grenades.