South Africa's Soweto township used to be synonymous with poverty, overcrowding, unemployment and political violence, but these days it has become the site of massive development with the opening of a new shopping centre called Maponya Mall. Its target customers are "Black Diamonds", local lingo for the country's new black middle class. An AFPTV report.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed the Newspaper Association of America and the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington on Monday, a day after her rival Barack Obama spoke to the same forum.

Farming practices must change to confront soaring food prices that threaten to drive millions of poor people around the world into even deeper poverty, a UNESCO study released Tuesday said.

The raft of reforms that have swept Cuba in recent weeks include a provision to allow mobile phones. It's a first for most ordinary Cubans, who are now allowed to make calls to the United States -- an unprecedented direct connection from the island to its northern neighbour. An AFPTV report.

Tibetans in Nepal have stepped up their anti-Chinese protests, taking their support for Tibetan rights to the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu.

Poland commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising on Tuesday in the presence of Israeli President Shimon Peres. On April 19, 1943 some 1,000 ghetto dwellers took up arms in a last stand against the Nazis.

Italy has welcomed billionaire Silvio Berlusconi back into office for the third time as prime minister, marking a shift to the right after two years of left-wing rule. Having dispatched rival Walter Veltroni, he now faces lingering foes -- a stagnating economy and widespread political disillusion.

Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change opposition party has called for an indefinite stay-at-home protest to force the release of long-delayed results of the March 29 presidential poll results. But the general strike has got off to a slow start.

When Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air mass on Thursday at the Washington Nationals baseball stadium he will be serenaded by choirs made up of Catholics from across the Washington area. AFPTV attended one of the final rehearsals of the choirs at a local high school.

On Tuesday Poland commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in the presence of Israeli President Shimon Peres. On April 19, 1943 some 1,000 ghetto dwellers took up arms in a last stand against the Nazis. Interview with Marek Edelman, the last survivor.