Local mafia cartel the United Sacred Crown are alleged to be behind the bombing of a girls’ school in Italy which killed one and injured seven others.
Donna Summer, whose music dominated the 1970s disco era, died on Thursday at the age of 63.
Facebook shares have fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18% at close to their IPO price.
SA stocks have fallen 1.3%, booking their worst weekly performance in six months as investors continued to hit shares of resource firms and banks.
The United Nations has plans to collect a monitoring team from a Syrian town after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack.
In a bid to pressure France and Spain into agreeing to direct negotiations, the Basque separatist group ETA says it has set up a delegation for talks.
Carlos Fuentes was Mexico’s most celebrated novelist and among Latin America’s most prominent authors, and an outspoken critic of US foreign policy.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested after a police raid on his premises found 10 rhino horns, one elephant tusk and nearly R25-million in cash.
Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has accused UN prosecutors of paying witnesses to testify against him as he addressed a war crimes court in The Hague.
Rebekah Brooks has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers.