Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Talks resume Monday on a United Nations treaty to regulate the sale of conventional arms -- amid roadblocks put up by some of the world's key players.

Washington signaled Friday a looming showdown at the United Nations when 193 countries will try again to hammer out the first international treaty on the $70 billion global arms trade.

China's incoming president Xi Jinping will visit regional economic powerhouse South Africa this month, the foreign ministry said Thursday, a highly symbolic trip that will come soon after he takes up the post.

More than 140 Nobel laureates led by archbishop Desmond Tutu urged China on Wednesday to release Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a rights activist jailed for subversion since 2009.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Tuesday he hoped to see a "truly free" Myanmar as he met fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the former junta-ruled nation.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Tuesday he hoped to see a "truly free" Myanmar as he met fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the former junta-ruled nation.

An appeals court in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday delayed the execution of a mentally disabled man with just minutes to spare, his lawyer said.

More than twenty thousand people streamed through the streets of southeast London on Saturday to protest against the proposed closure of services at a major hospital.

Australian Simon Taufel will this year become the first umpire to give the prestigious MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Friday.

Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs was officially crowned the star of the mobile-centric tech industry, offering a glimpse of the power of new devices to transform people's lives.

Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs was officially crowned the star of the mobile-centric tech industry, offering a glimpse of the power of new devices to transform people's lives.

President Jacob Zuma has called for a "national cleansing ceremony" led by archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu to help reset South Africa's moral compass, local media reported Friday.

Beneath the undying loyalty of poor blacks to the African National Congress, there is a growing resentment towards the movement that delivered South Africa from apartheid 18 years ago.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has compared elements of Uganda's proposed anti-gay bill to apartheid. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has compared elements of Uganda's proposed anti-gay bill to apartheid. The 81-year-old retired Anglican bishop who gained notoriety speaking out against apartheid penned an op-ed arguing against passage of the measure which would increase the penalties for being gay and having gay sex in a nation where it is already punishable by up to life in prison. ?One thing that Ugandan legislators should know is that God does not discriminate among members of our family,? Tutu wrote in the Daily Monitor. ?God does not say black is better than white, or tall is better than short, or football players are better than basketball players, or Christians are better than Muslims ? or gay is better than straight. No. God says love one another; love your neighbour. God is for freedom, equality and love.? ?People have over many centuries devised all kinds of terrible instruments to oppress

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was Monday awarded the UNESCO/Bilbao human rights prize for "his exceptional contribution to building a universal culture of human rights at the national, regional and international levels."

China cast a cold eye Wednesday on demands from 134 Nobel laureates for the immediate release of dissident 2010 Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, reiterating that he was a convicted criminal.

A battalion of Nobel laureates from across six disciplines urged China's incoming president in an open letter Tuesday to release Chinese dissident and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel Peace laureates have written to the foundation in protest at the decision to award the 2012 prize to the European Union.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Thursday used its parliamentary majority to pass a reworked secrecy bill through the upper house, brushing aside fears that it will muzzle whistleblowers and the media.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Thursday used its parliamentary majority to pass a reworked secrecy bill through the upper house, brushing aside fears that it will muzzle whistleblowers and the media.