Huge crowds of thrill-seekers got a scare as they fled fighting bulls charging through the city in the opening run of Spain’s San Fermin festival.
Mining company Lonmin has filed court papers proposing that a secret ballot be held to establish the union membership of its workers.
Graça Machel, the wife of former president Nelson Mandela, has provided emotional stability during her husband’s lengthy hospital stay.
From his home in Leicester, former business administrator Elliot Higgins trawls through sometimes hundreds of videos a day from Syria’s civil war.
A tribal king on Saturday removed a grandson of Nelson Mandela from his post of traditional authority.
Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 27 students and a teacher in a boarding school in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum on Saturday.
Bolivia offered asylum on Saturday to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, joining Venezuela and Nicaragua in defiance of Washington.
Egypt’s transition has stumbled after the choice of Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister was thrown into doubt by Islamist objections.
An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 with 307 people on board crashed and burst into flames as it landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
Allegations of inmates being force-fed in Guantánamo reveal Obama and Cameron have been talking a lot and doing very little to close the facility.