Actress Angelina Jolie says she had undergone a double mastectomy after finding out she had a gene mutation that leads to a higher risk of cancer.
US President Barack Obama has urged Britons to watch whether EU reforms were successful before deciding whether to leave the multi-nation bloc.
Ernie Els has returned to Asia to shoot a strong opening round of four-under-par 68 and lie two shots off lead at the Indonesian Masters in Jakarta.
The rand flirted briefly at its weakest level in more than two weeks after worries that job cuts in the mining sectors could spark violent protests.
Alex Ferguson’s last home match in charge of Manchester United has ended in a 2-1 victory over Swansea City and the Premier League trophy in the bag.
Toppled in a 1999 coup, jailed and exiled, Nawaz Sharif has made an election comeback, heading for a third term as Pakistan’s prime minister.
Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday.
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station have begun a spacewalk to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has expressed outrage over Anglo American Platinum’s announcement that it will cut 6 000 jobs.
Anglo American Platinum has announced that it will cut 6 000 jobs at its SA operations, in a move that risks sparking a resurgence of labour unrest.