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                    [Title] => South Africa's power blackouts generate frustration, humor
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Driving home through dead traffic lights to a half-cooked dinner is the new normal in South Africa, where rolling power blackouts have become a common drudgery. The government warns that forced outages will continue for years.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-17 04:29:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479889 [AuthorName] => Lynsey Chutel [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1422907 [Title] => South Africans mark 25th anniversary of Mandela's release [Summary] =>

Nelson Mandela insisted that he wanted to walk out of prison, when then President F. W. de Klerk told him he would finally be freed 25 years ago.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-12 08:00:06 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479889 [AuthorName] => Lynsey Chutel [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1347995 [Title] => South Africans remember Mandela on his birthday [Summary] =>

South Africans marked Nelson Mandela's birthday on Friday with charitable acts in honor of the former president, whose death in December prompted a global outpouring of tributes.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-19 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1231969 [AuthorName] => Christopher Torchia [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1327424 [Title] => 73% of Pinoys are unbanked [Summary] =>

An estimated 2.5 billion people of the world’s population are excluded from this financial system, 50 percent of which comprised of mostly women while the young people make up 40 percent, according to an international payments industry.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1213316 [AuthorName] => Carlo S. Lorenciana [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1321529 [Title] => South Africa ruling party headed for win [Summary] =>

South Africa's ruling African National Congress was headed for a comfortable win as vote-counting in South Africa's elections drew to a close Friday while key opposition rivals strengthened their support after promising change after 20 years of leadership by the party that led the fight against apartheid.

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South Africans on yesterday celebrated 20 years of democracy with song, prayer and praise for those who guided their country into a more peaceful, tolerant era, although some noted that economic inequality and other problems have undermined the nation's promise since the first all-race elections ended white rule on April 27, 1994.

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Surveillance video from a Metro bus in Seattle shows the dramatic takedown of an armed man who was robbing passengers of their phones last month. 

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-20 10:42:36 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Video Features [SectionUrl] => video-features [URL] => http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7595/j03z.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1270316 [Title] => WATCH: Pastor defrocked for officiating gay wedding [Summary] =>

A United Methodist Church pastor who was defrocked for officiating at the gay wedding of his son says he intends to appeal and is shocked by church officials' decision. 

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-20 10:37:15 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Video Features [SectionUrl] => video-features [URL] => http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6816/96qn.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1269987 [Title] => WATCH: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford caught dancing at work [Summary] =>

Toronto mayor Rob Ford caught on tape again, this time, during a council session Tuesday, dancing vigorously to a band playing "One Love" on the chamber floor. 

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-19 18:11:35 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Video Features [SectionUrl] => video-features [URL] => http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9827/ozcy.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1269933 [Title] => WATCH: Obama selects gay athletes for Sochi delegation [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians with who he is _ and isn't _ sending to represent the United States at the Sochi Olympics.

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