Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova say they want acquittal from Vladimir Putin, not amnesty.
When considering this question, note that Jesus himself was hostile to religiosity – and that fundamentalists suffer from a lack of faith.
Proteas all-rounder Jacques Kallis has announced his retirement from Test and first-class cricket after Thursday’s Test against India in Durban.
Space station astronauts have repaired a crippled cooling system during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk.
SA has had 855 deaths on its roads since the start of Decembe, while Gauteng has had the largest number of motor crashes, followed by KwaZulu-Natal.
Two ministers have resigned in Turkey after their sons were arrested in a graft probe that they have called an "ugly plot" against the government.
The SAPS says it will look into the death of the police inspectorate’s divisional commissioner, who was found dead in his office earlier in the week.
The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of troops to almost double the number of peacekeepers in South Sudan.
The United Nations says a mass grave had been discovered in rebel-held Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State.
Former chief of service corps, retired Lieutenant General Lehlohonolo Moloi has died, says the South African National Defence Force.