White House candidate Mitt Romney will announce Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate later on Saturday, US media has reported.
Caster Semenya has put Kenya’s defending Olympic champ Pamela Jelimo on notice, with running her season’s best time of 1:57.67sec in the 800m semis.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on television for the first time in more than two weeks as his troops fight rebels in Aleppo.
The South African National Space Agency has revealed that a South African team helped Nasa to land the Curiosity rover on Mars.
Syrian rebels have bombarded an air base used by regime forces to pound Aleppo, while dozens have been reported killed in a raid near Damascus.
Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has swept into the Olympic quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Russia’s Vera Zvonareva on Wednesday.
Michael Phelps may be the most successful athlete in Olympic history but he is "probably not" the greatest, according to Sebastian Coe.
Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr has been hit with an arrest warrant after he allegedly pushed a female bartender during a dispute at a bar.
Eight women badminton players at the Olympics have been charged with "throwing" matches to secure an easier draw in the next round.
Zimbabwe’s central bank has hiked 10-fold statutory capital requirements for merchant banks to $100-million to restore confidence in the sector.