Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer says Argentina’s defence withheld his side from landing a decisive knockout blow in their Rugby Championship match.
A Sudanese Cabinet minister is among 31 people killed when an airplane crashed carrying a delegation to war-torn South Kordofan for Eid celebrations.
Policymakers have finally woken up to the plight of British postgraduates, with decisions on funding and fees on the horizon.
Even elite, research-intensive universities may find themselves touting for candidates, but this won’t help applicants whose grades fell short.
Ayattollah Ali Khamenei says the issue of Israel and its control over the Palestinian people was the main problem for Islamic countries.
Dropped star batsman Kevin Pietersen is facing showdown talks with England skipper Andrew Strauss next week as he tries to rescue his career.
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have resorted increasingly to air power to hold back lightly armed insurgents in the capital Damascus and Aleppo.
Southern African leaders on Saturday slammed Rwanda for supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a threat to regional stability.
Mail & Guardian Online editor Chris Roper battles to find significance in socialite Khanyi Mbau’s tell-all biography.
The marriage of the Kremlin and the church in the Pussy Riot affair shows how sinister matters are in Russia.