What do Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden have in common, except for cold winters? These Nordic countries, of all nations in the world, have the smallest equality gap between men and women.

Information relating to more than 50,000 UK customers of the Swiss insurance firm Zurich has gone missing. The information was lost in South Africa.

The measures being put in place to keep visitors safe at next year’s FIFA Soccer World Cup in South Africa will include the biggest command and control operation yet undertaken by the South African military.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed its satisfaction with the regional grouping’s first military standby force exercise, codenamed Exercise Golfinho.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

A female Angolan giraffe (also known as the 'Smoky Giraffe') has been born at the Selwo Adventure Park in Estepona, in the province of Malaga.

In a recent swine flu-related study. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have concluded that pregnant women who get the dreaded virus are four times more likely to be hospitalized as compared to other swine flu patients.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

Across the globe, flooding is becoming widespread. Software that can predict flooding can be helpful in the planning for people and property. With advanced warning lives can be saved and property protected.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and South Africa’s National Health Department have confirmed two suspected cases of Swine Flu, both in people who have recently travelled and been to Mexico.