When Zimbabweans go to the polls to choose between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, it is young and rural voters who may decide the victor.
The death toll from mudslides that have ravaged an earthquake-shattered region of northwestern China has risen to 21.
Iraqis condemned authorities on Sunday for failing to stop a wave of deadly unrest including attacks that killed dozens of people the day before.
The UN has voiced fears about a new media law in Somalia only days after experts sounded the alarm over corruption in the country’s new government.
Newspapers have ripped into the team’s feeble batting in the second Test against England, fearing the Ashes campaign might have unravelled.
An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3-million.
School children have been dumping the meals they get as part of a school feeding scheme in fear of poisoning after 22 children died on Tuesday.
Twenty children have now been confirmed dead after eating a free lunch at a primary school in eastern India, say officials.
Golf superstar Tiger Woods has remembered how his first meeting with Nelson Mandela 15 years ago was an experience like no other.
Barcelona’s leaders have denied Pep Guardiola’s charge that the club used his successor’s cancer illness to criticise him.