 | Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla wanted to be a disc jockey but his illustrious grandfather had other ideas for him — passing down a lesson on the responsibility that South Africa’s most famous surname carries. |
 | Bernard “Bernie” Sahlins, who co-founded Chicago’s Second City theater and who nurtured the early careers of many of “Saturday Night Live’s” biggest stars over the years, has died. |
 | Long before Nelson Mandela’s persistent ill health, Kekana Mangqwambi would drop in on his famous neighbour and rib the revered icon about his love life. |
 | “Everest and K2 are like chalk and cheese,” says the UAE-based British adventurer who recently announced he would attempt to summit the “savage mountain” K2, the second highest on Earth. |
 | On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space in a scientific feat that was a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union. |
 | With an olive green head scarf poking out from her helmet, Ayesha Farooq flashes a cheeky grin when asked if it is lonely being the only war-ready female fighter pilot in Pakistan. |
 | So revered is Nelson Mandela today that it is easy to forget that for decades he was considered a terrorist by many foreign governments, and some of his now supporters. |
 | The wife of Japan’s pro-business Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not like nuclear power and would rather her husband’s government did not try to export it, she said in a speech. |
 | Vadym Kholodenko of the Ukraine has won the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, just four months after the death of the contest’s namesake. |
 | Nelson Mandela, who was readmitted to hospital on Saturday for the second time in as many months, spent 27 years as a prisoner of apartheid before embarking on a “long walk to freedom” which saw him crowned South Africa’s first black president and a Nobel peace laureate. |
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