As Homer noted, the Trojans love nothing better than a good braai after fending off Achilles and his horde of assegai-wielding Greek impi.
Baboons in Cape Town are being paintballed to drive them out of residential suburbs and stop them from pillaging homes and cars on brazen food raids.
Israeli troops fired tank shells into Syria on Monday, confirming "direct hits" on the source of a mortar round that struck the Golan Heights.
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe is selling its diamonds to few takers at give-away prices as most foreign buyers shun the isolated country.
A lone shooter could not have committed the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers blamed on a US soldier, a witness has testified.
A West African summit has agreed on a military force of 3 300 troops to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist extremists.
US President Barack Obama marked Veterans Day by celebrating the fact that America’s decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming to an end.
Argentina became the first team to beat Six Nations Grand Slam winners Wales at home this year as they recorded a come from behind 26-12 win.
Ahead of a Communist Party congress in China where a transition of power will occur, an 18-year-old Tibetan protestor has burnt himself to death.
British broadcaster the BBC has had to backtrack and apologise for airing a film implicating a senior politician in a child sex scandal.