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What Joe Biden has said in more than a few examples recently gives me – and many others – cause to be concerned about the state of his mind.

During the final round of a surfing event in South Africa, Mick Fanning was attacked by a shark. And the whole thing was caught on live television! Fanning was competing in Jeffreys Bay on Sunday when the shark approached the board. "I was just about to start paddling again and all of a sudden I had this instinct that something was behind me," Fanning told Australian news agency News...

A 21-year-old man is the recipient of the worlds first successful penis transplant. South African doctors performed the nine-hour surgery last December.  The unnamed patient had his organ amputated during a botched circumcision three years ago...

President Barack Obama says he authorized the attempt to rescue American Luke Somers in Yemen because the U.S. had information that the American photojournalist's life was in imminent danger.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The judge in the case said yesterday the state had not proved that Pistorius was guilty of premeditated murder...

The judge in the case of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius says the defendant is not guilty of the premeditated murder his girlfriend. After a six and-a-half month trial, a judge in Pretoria said this morning that the state did not prove Pistoirus deliberately acted to kill Reeva Steenkamp...

The AFP photographer who snapped the photos at the Nelson Mandela memorial of President Obama and the prime ministers of Britain and Denmark taking a selfie, as well as others that appeared to show Michelle Obama annoyed at her husband talking with the attractive female Danish prime minister, has come forward to say the hoopla around the photos has been blown out of proportion. ...

President Barack Obama says Nelson Mandela earned his place in history through struggle, shrewdness, persistence and faith. Obama is eulogizing the former South African president at a memorial service in Johannesburg. He's comparing Mandela to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr...

Maya Angelou, who first met Nelson Mandela in the early 1960s, praised him as a great man worthy of comparison to another icon she knew _ the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.       ``Our planet has lost a friend,'' Angelou said Friday during a telephone interview with The Associated Press. She...

The President and First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to South Africa next week to pay tribute to the late Nelson Mandela.  That will include participation in memorial events for the former South African president and anti-apartheid champion.  M...