With a number of recent Hollywood hit films featuring arrow slingers in lead roles, archery has received a much needed boost at the London Olympics.
A sobering World Bank report has found that poor South African kids are unlikely to escape poverty due to persistent social and economic inequalities.
Russia has made no agreement to grant Bashar al-Assad asylum and is "not even thinking about" doing so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Egypt’s new prime minister will announce a cabinet on Thursday almost a month after Mohamed Morsi took office amid a power struggle with the military.
Opera star Yevgeny Nikitin, who was forced to pull out of the Bayreuth Festival over swastika tattoos, insists the images are not Nazi.
Zanu-PF has dismissed as "nonsense" the EU decision to link the lifting of most sanctions to a peaceful vote on a new Constitution.
Resistance to Aids drugs is growing in parts of Africa but should not hamper the life-saving drug rollout, researchers have reported.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked al-Shebab insurgents have executed three members for "spying" for Western intelligence agencies.
Bradley Wiggins virtually secured his maiden Tour de France victory after winning the penultimate stage-time trial of the race on Saturday.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has secured his second consecutive pole position when he outpaced his rivals in qualifying for the German Grand Prix.