More than 20 people were killed in Homs on Saturday, a doctor said, as fighting raged around a road junction on a supply line to government forces.
At least 32 people were killed on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster.
A jail riot in southwestern Venezuela has killed dozens of people local media said, the latest in the ongoing crisis in the coutry’s crowded prisons.
Outplayed, out-thought and out-manoeuvred, Maria Sharapova’s hopes of reaching another Grand Slam final have been undone by China’s Li Na.
Cyril Ramaphosa is quitting the boards of paper-maker Mondi and platinum producer Lonmin to prevent conflicts with his new political role.
Cameroon aims to begin production at its first industrial diamond mine by the end of January as part of plans to develop the long-neglected sector.
The Competition Tribunal has given the green light to the proposed takeover of global miner Xstrata by commodities trader Glencore.
South African platinum producer Wesizwe Platinum says it has received a $650-million loan from the China Development Bank for its Bakubung project.
The biggest questions around the US president’s inaugural celebrations have not been about what Barack Obama would say but what his wife would wear.
A prank note in an Australian library declaring that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s books would be moved to the fiction section has gone viral.