Serena Williams has come back from a slow start to reach the second round at the Eastbourne grasscourt event after not playing for nearly year.
The police union wants an investigation into how R24-million was spent on "wasteful" police day festivities, and called for the event to be cancelled.
Google is investing $280-million to help private United States homeowners put solar panels on their rooftops, its largest investment in clean energy.
A pair of SA astronomers have found "really strange" planets orbiting a binary star system, just like the system where Luke Skywalker grew up.
Khartoum stepped up air strikes in South Kordofan state on the south Sudan border on Tuesday, causing "huge suffering" to civilians, the UN says.
Sri Lanka Cricket is seeking government grants and a soft loan to meet part of the $69-million it spent on co-hosting the 2011 World Cup.
The security chiefs who led a coup in Madagascar say they will not humour SADC leaders’ desire for exiled ex-leader Marc Ravalomanana to return.
South Korean animator Choi Jong-Il knew he had a hit on his hands when Pororo the penguin hopped on to TV screens back in 2003.
Nepal has cleared the country’s last remaining minefield, nearly five years after the end of its decade-long civil war with Maoist insurgents.
New Zealand on Tuesday said the latest Christchurch earthquake had confirmed fears that thousands of homes in the city would have to be abandoned.