Nelson Mandela

Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace

2013-05-15 06:00:00

Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...

South African ruling party criticized over video of frail Mandela

2013-04-30 09:21:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Tuesday defended a controversial decision to allow the broadcast on television of a video of an unsmiling Nelson Mandela, looking frail, pallid and uncomfortable, as...

Only in death will Margaret Thatcher speak -- in an authorized bio

2013-04-08 12:15:00

Margaret Thatcher signed a contract for an authorized biography more than 16 years ago. For reasons that will soon become clear, she granted writer Charles Moore an exclusive series of interviews and access to her papers on the condition that the book...

Italy nominates youngest prime minister in years

2013-04-24 07:40:00

ROME -- Italy turned the corner on two months of political stalemate Wednesday by nominating center-left leader Enrico Letta as prime minister after inconclusive elections in February left parties struggling to form a government. Letta, 46, is set to...

Margaret Thatcher is lionized and lambasted

2013-04-08 17:19:00

LONDON — Indifference was not an option. In death as in life, at home and abroad, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lionized and lambasted — sometimes both in the same breath — as news of her passing Monday spread...

Nelson Mandela's health improving, South African officials say

2013-04-03 08:30:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The health of former South African President Nelson Mandela has improved, according to South African officials who said he is in much better shape than he was a week ago when he was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia....

Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital

2013-04-06 10:20:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from the hospital after 10 days undergoing treatment for pneumonia,� officials said Saturday. Mandela's discharge was a huge relief for South Africans,...

Nelson Mandela 'in good spirits' after second night in hospital

2013-03-29 06:03:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is showing signs of recovery after his second night in a hospital for treatment of a recurring lung infection, President Jacob Zuma said Friday. Mandela was admitted to the hospital in...

Nelson Mandela suffering from pneumonia, officials say

2013-03-30 09:37:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa’s presidency for the first time Saturday confirmed the seriousness of Nelson Mandela’s illness -- pneumonia -- as the former president prepared to spend a fourth night in the hospital. South...

Interview: Why the world is losing faith in democracy

2013-03-30 02:00:00

In the heady days of 1989, nondemocratic regimes fell like dominoes to the peaceful march of�activists across Eastern Europe. Even China briefly appeared vulnerable to popular demands for a voice in how the country is ruled -- until the crackdown at�...

Nelson Mandela is hospitalized again for lung infection

2013-03-28 10:17:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Nelson Mandela was readmitted to a hospital after a worrying recurrence of the lung infection he suffered in December, the South African presidency announced Thursday. It was the third time Mandela, known affectionately...

Chinua Achebe dies at 82; Nigerian writer

2013-03-23 00:00:00

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time magazine called it "the best novel ever written...

A man walks in front of a transparent window bearing the image of South African former President Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela museum in Qunu, South Africa on April 5.

2013-04-05 00:00:00

A stone painted with a get-well message and left outside former South African President Nelson Mandela's residence in the Houghton area of Johannesburg on Wednesday. Mandela is known as Madiba.

2013-04-03 00:00:00

A worshiper offer prayers for both Easter and for former South African President Nelson Mandela atop a hill overlooking Johannesburg on Saturday.

2013-03-30 00:00:00