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Until now it was believed that our earliest identifiable ancestors were Homo Habilis fossils found in East Africa. But ever the discovery of Australopithecus Sediba(the ancient human ancestor) , in a South African cave in 2009, the scientists are claiming that they have found the missing link between humans and apes.The species – dubbed Australopithecus Sediba – had ape arms but human-like hands, which could have been used to make tools and climb trees, a small but human-shaped brain and a ...

Muammar Gaddafi is still on the run despite being hunted down by the National Transitional Council and NATO forces. Taking over from Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden, the colonel is now the most wanted man on the planet.

Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas netted twice as world champions Spain battled back from 2-0 down to defeat Chile in a pulsating friendly in Switzerland on Friday.

More than a week after the rebels first entered Tripoli, the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi is still on-going.

As the quest for Gaddafi intensifies, world powers are already planning their next strategic move to optimise their relationship with Libya, strategizing their next moves for relations with Libya, proving that the race for the best deals has now truly started.

Gaddafi's compound might now be in the hands of the rebels, but the leader is not yet ready to relinquish power.

While the world asks what will happen to Moammar Gadhafi in the coming hours or days, rumors about his whereabouts and his next move are rampant.

Sounds of intense fighting echoed Monday morning around Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi's compound in central Tripoli as his forces continued to fight rebels who swept into the capital Sunday night.

The international charity Oxfam has launched an initiative to get Africans and their governments to donate more towards the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa as it complained the donations given by African countries so far are too small.

District judge Howard Riddle has ruled that Shrien Dewani can be extradited to South Africa to face trial for organising the murder of his wife Anni on their honeymoon in November last year.

If goal-line technology was in place in South Africa last year, England would have won the World Cup. Ok, probably not but at least we would have been prevented the tedious debate about the merits, or lack thereof, of introducing a system that is already widely used in other sports, including cricket and rugby.

Thousands of Africans are taking to Twitter to vent grief and anger over another famine in Somalia, raising money and comforting each other showing that once again social network are increasingly used to highlight international issues.

Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will continue to work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.

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Tottenham are linked with Emanuel Adebayor, Juan Mata and Marco Vucinic and there is the latest of Luka Modric's future at White Hart Lane

Prime Minister David Cameron avoided any direct response to questions of his tenure amid further resignations over the hacking scandal.

The appearance of key figures involved in the hacking scandal at parliamentary committee meetings on Tuesday could delay MP's summer recess.

South African President Jacob Zuma will visit anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela in the Eastern Cape on Monday to wish him happy birthday, officials have confirmed.

Tensions between the world's two giants are mounting after China's People's Daily newspaper launched an attack on U.S. President Barack Obama as it described his weekend meeting with the Dalai Lama as an "unscrupulous trick of pragmatism," adding that the move has undermined the U.S.'s status as a major world power.

Millions of South Africans are celebrating the 93rd birthday of the former president Nelson Mandela.Mandela Day, was inaugurated in 2009 on Nelson Mandela's birthday, 18 July, and declared an international day by the United Nations in November 2009. Mandela Day was inspired by a call made by this world icon for the next generation to take on the burden of leadership in addressing the world's social injustices. Mandela turns 93 years of age on 18 July.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has pledged his support to South Sudan, which gains its independence from the north on Saturday.

On July 5 the South African media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), unequivocally dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert on 5fm that called for the boycott of Israel and compared Israel to Apartheid South Africa.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Colonel Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and his intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi for crimes against humanity. The court says there is evidences he ordered attacks on civilians during the recent uprising, in which more than 20,000 Libyans are thought to have died so far.

A spokesman says the opposition insists that the strongman cannot be involved in any future government, but it may allow him to live out his last years in Libya at an isolated location.

First Lady Michelle Obama urged young Africans on Wednesday to fight for women's rights and battle the stigma of AIDS while using her husband's "yes, we can" campaign slogan to try and motivate youth across the continent.

Four months into the conflict and while the battle for Libya is still going strong, various conspiracy theories have by now emerged. After Gaddafi's own theory of Al-Qaeda putting drugs in the people's Nescafe flopped, the idea that Libya could in fact be the theatre for a new cold war attracted quite a lot of attention.

Ed Miliband and what passes for his leadership of the Labour Party have come under increasing scrutiny in the last few days. This scrutiny has lead to an increase in commentators on both the left and the right buying into a strange delusion, that David Miliband would have been a great leader of the current opposition.

As the fight to force Gaddafi out of power continues, Western and Arab governments have pledged more than £800m to support Libya's rebel administration as they seek to keep the pressure on Muammar Gaddafi's regime and insist they want to start preparing for a transitional phase.

With strict sanctions imposed against the country, most of his assets frozen and many of his top government officials defecting, how does Gaddafi still manage to hang on to power?

England will take a substantial step towards qualifying for the Euro 2012 finals should they beat Switzerland at Wembley on Saturday