Born on November 20, 1923, Gordimer grew up in an affluent suburb of the gold-mining town of Springs, east of Johannesburg. Her mother believed she had a weak heart … when she died, the family said. A private memorial service will be announced later.

Sousa pointedly ducked media questions on whether public-service jobs could be cut — even though the Liberals won the election by campaigning against former Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak's controversial plan to cut 100,000 positions over …

Dhaka had been spruced up with great care for the Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference: newly-metalled roads, wide and spacious, were lined with bright glow-lamps. Thousands of buntings and festoons overhung them, rather like New Delhi during the …

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South African Nobel Prize-winning writer and anti-apartheid activist Nadine Gordimer, who became an icon through her unique insights into the country's social agonies, has died at the age of 90, reports AFP. Through 15 novels, several volumes of short …

AmREIT, Inc (NASDAQ:AMRE) is a full service, vertically integrated and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, operates, acquires and selectively develops and redevelops primarily neighborhood and community shopping centers …

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A delegation from Bank of China which was due to visit Frankfurt this week to discuss issues including a planned yuan clearing service in the city has canceled the trip amid the controversy over the CCTV report, the newspaper Handelsblatt reported …