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Thursday, February 14, 2013  Oscar Pistorius has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend after model Reeva Steenkamp was shot inside the Olympic athlete's home in South Africa.

Monday, December 10, 2012  Scientists are tracking two great white sharks off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina as part of an effort to learn more about their migration patterns and raise awareness of the species.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012  Last year, readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine voted Charleston the top tourist town in the United States.

Thursday, September 22, 2011  A former Supreme Court justice from South Africa is speaking on the United States' role in international criminal justice.

Monday, July 19, 2010  For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa.

Friday, May 14, 2010  Relatives broke the news to a Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya that his parents and brother died in the disaster, as authorities said the 9-year-old would return home on Saturday.

Thursday, May 13, 2010  The Dutch Foreign Ministry said the boy's aunt and uncle were in the Libyan capital Tripoli and officials at al-Khadra hospital said a group of Westerners visiting him were his relatives.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010  A Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman says the lone survivor from the plane crash in Libya — a young Dutch boy — is undergoing surgery in Tripoli.

Monday, April 26, 2010  California 16-year-old will stop in South Africa, giving up attempt to sail nonstop around world

Tuesday, December 01, 2009  South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies, president announces on World AIDS Day

Wednesday, March 25, 2009  Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, a revered historian of life in the South and the African-American experience, has died. He was 94.