Police say they have completed their murder investigation into global track and field star Oscar Pistorius, who will appear in court next week.
Matt Damon’s sci-fi thriller Elysium has won a tight box-office race among four new films at US and Canadian cinemas.
Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez and Wayne Rooney have kept speculation rife ahead of the start of the new English Premier League football season.
Banks cut 5 500 branches across the European Union last year, 2.5% of the total, leaving the region with 20 000 fewer outlets since 2008.
A series of car bombs in mainly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad has killed 60 people and wounded 140.
Nelson Mandela’s health is improving daily and he is now able to sit up for minutes at a time, his youngest daughter Zindzi has told the SABC.
Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in the flare-up in violence stoked by tensions between Protestant and Catholic communities.
Japan’s prime minister has spoken out about the need for action to deal with the build up of radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger has been flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan.
New pastel portraits by American singer Bob Dylan will go on show for the first time at London’s National Portrait Gallery next month.