An attacker has stabbed three Eritrean men in a Tel Aviv video store in what police said they were initially treating as a racist attack.
The new Batman flick "The Dark Knight Rises" has remained number one at North American box offices, despite the mass shooting in Colorado.
Versatile swimmer Chad le Clos provided South Africa’s only shining light on the third day of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran’s biggest-ever banking scandal.
The US wasted about $206-million on building facilities for a now-downsized Iraqi police training programme which a top official termed "useless".
Iran is thinking of boycotting next month’s Venice International Film Festival because of EU sanctions hitting its oil-dependent economy.
Indian police have concluded that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards carried out an attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February.
Russia has vetoed UN action against Syria, but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says he’s unsure what role Assad will have in the nation’s future.
A court has ruled that three HIV-positive women were sterilised without informed consent but dismissed claims it was done because of their HIV status.
Cameron van der Burgh has won the men’s 100m breaststroke final, finishing in 58.46 seconds and securing SA’s first medal at the London Olympic Games.