South African actress Daphney Hlomuka-Ngubane, popularly known as Sis May in the TV show S’gudi S’naysi, died on Wednesday.
Parliament has started winding down the Directorate of Special Operations — better known as the Scorpions.
The death toll from a deadly stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan has risen to 194, officials said on Wednesday.
The US Navy on Wednesday piled pressure on Somali pirates holding out for a -million ransom for a Ukrainian cargo ship.
Renowned Afrikaans writer Audrey Blignault died in a Cape Town clinic on Wednesday at the age of 92, SABC news reported.
Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF has rejected a call for former SA president Thabo Mbeki to intervene in power-sharing talks.
The US Senate prepared to vote on Wednesday on a revised -billion plan aimed at halting the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Somalia welcomes Russian help in fighting piracy off its coast, the country’s ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday.
Two South African soldiers have drowned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Defence Minister Charles Nqakula announced on Wednesday.
Beatrice Marshoff remains Free State premier for now, but has been advised that she must leave her post, provincial party officials said on Wednesday.