A New Delhi court trying a teenager over a fatal gang-rape last December that shocked India deferred announcing the first verdict in the case.
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty on all charges, some of which could carry the death penalty.
Egypt’s new leadership has been seeking to push forward with forming a new government as police sought to arrest the leader of the Islamist movement.
Former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will lose another property when his house in Polokwane goes under the hammer in two weeks’ time.
Self-confessed dagga-smoking AbaThembu king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo says he is not perturbed by being constantly associated with the illegal smoke.
Urgent measures will be taken to turn around the communication sector, especially the SABC, says newly-appointed Communications Minister Yunus Carrim.
No president of the democratic era has been as willing to rearrange the Cabinet deck as Jacob Zuma, who moves ministers around roughly once a year.
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Former president Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment but is still in a critical but stable condition, says President Jacob Zuma.
The United Nations has made former South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka head of the gender equality body UN Women.