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(CNN) -- South Africa -- it's the part of the continent most of us know at least a little about.

Now almost two decades removed from apartheid, the country at the bottom of the continent has taken up the place it deserves as one of Africa's top tourist destinations.

The country of approximately 52 million people is already well known for Cape Town, Table Mountain, the wine route and game viewing in the Kruger National Park.

But there's much more to discover.
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Escaped Killers Captured in Florida

Authorities on Saturday captured two men who escaped from prison using forged release papers—apparently tipped off by a friend. Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker, both 34, were serving life sentences at the Franklin Correctional Facility in northern Florida when they walked out (Jenkins on September 27, Walker on October with the forged paperwork—which shaved 15 years off their sentences. Within days of leaving prison, they both registered as felons without anyone realizing the paperwork was bogus—until one of the murder victim’s families contacted prosecutors. A "close associate" infomed authorities that Walker and Jenkins were in the area, hours after their families pleaded in a press conference that they turn themselves in.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Overseers of Abu Dhabi's Grand Mosque say they asked pop star Rihanna to leave the compound after she posed for photographs considered to be at odds with the "sanctity" of the site.
Rihanna hasn't publicly responded to the actions by staff at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Her show took place on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.

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U.S. debt jumped a record $328 billion on Thursday, the first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal President Obama and Congress sealed this week.

The debt now equals $17.075 trillion, according to figures the Treasury Department posted online on Friday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday.

That's almost 15 percent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to The Opportunity Nation coalition, which wrote the report.