A Namibian court has once again postponed the case of an Israeli businessman seeking to block his extradition to the United States.

A southern African regional court ruled Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government’s land grab policy was racially motivated.

White farmers asked a regional court Thursday to hold the Zimbabwean government in contempt, saying government supporters were beating and harassing plaintiffs in a suit challenging Zimbabwe’s farm evictions.Lawyers for Zimbabwe’s government walked out...

A Namibian prosecutor says a new judge will be appointed to hear the extradition case of businessman Jacob “Kobi” Alexander.Deputy State Attorney Nixon Marcus says a Sept. 17 hearing can now go ahead as planned to decide whether the former CEO of...

Seal hunters plan to club 86,000 seals in an annual hunt set to begin next week, as animal rights activists brace for a showdown with the government over a practice they regard as inhumane.During this year’s season _ from July 1 to Nov. 15 _ seal...

Businessman Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, accompanied by his wife, appeared in a Namibian court Tuesday as part of his nearly two-year battle to stop his extradition to the United States.High Court judge Alexander Parker reserved judgment at the end of a...

The world’s largest land-based census of wildlife began Wednesday across a huge swath of northwestern Namibia, World Wildlife Fund officials said.The annual animal census, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, came as the American...

The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins _ and cannons to fend off pirates.But it had nothing to protect it from the fierce weather off a particularly bleak stretch of inhospitable African coast, and it sank 500 years...

Suppose Exxon Mobil decided to return the favor and buy you a tank of gas. Then again, why stop there? The oil giant turned a profit last year fat enough to buy a fill-up for every car, truck and SUV in America _ four times.Beating its own record to rack.

Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He’s written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged..