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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma  / AFP PHOTO / Greg BAKER
South African President Jacob Zuma looked on Tuesday to have survived an attempted ousting after days of fierce debate within the ruling ANC party as several ministers called on him to resign.
7 hours ago  News
Rescuers search for survivors from the wreckage of the LAMIA airlines charter plane carrying members of the Chapecoense Real football team that crashed in the mountains of Cerro Gordo, municipality of La Union, on November 29, 2016.
A charter plane carrying the Brazilian football team crashed in the mountains in Colombia late Monday, killing as many as 75 people, officials said.  / AFP PHOTO / Raul ARBOLEDA
A plane carrying 81 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, crashed late Monday near the Colombian city of Medellin, after reporting "electrical failures," officials said.
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Ahead of the World AIDS Day 2016, scientists have launched the first Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) vaccine efficacy study anywhere, for over seven years, in South Africa.
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The South African women’s national team, Banyana Banyana, who are standing between the Super Falcons and a final ticket at the Eighth African Women’s Nations Cup holding in Cameroun. PHOTO: CAF
Things are not looking smooth for the Banyana Banyana of South Africa ahead of their semifinal clash with the Super Falcons of Nigeria at the on-going 10th African Women’s Nations Cup in Cameroun.
11 hours ago  Sport
This handout picture released on November 22, 2016 by the ESA/NASA shows French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the International Space Station ’s Cupola observatory, one of ESA’s contributions to the orbital outpost. This picture is the first picture Thomas Pesquet posted on social media, with the comment: “The International Space Station is amazing: better than in my best dreams. I wish everybody could get the chance to come up here!”. Russia's Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on November 19, 2016, carrying a European, a Russian and an American astronaut for a six-month mission at the orbiting outpost.
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Astronauts may experience blurry vision and impaired eyesight after long space flights due to changes in spinal fluid that occur while in microgravity, researchers said Monday.
12 hours ago  Technology