Suspected Janjaweed militia have ambushed the beleaguered United Nations mission in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.
Police were on Wednesday searching for body parts that were sliced off three corpses at a Pietermaritzburg mortuary.
Large numbers of awaiting-trial prisoners appear to be the reason for South Africa’s grossly overcrowded prisons, some by more than 300% of capacity.
Three gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed on Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint outside the US consulate in Istanbul.
Even by the standards of international trade and diplomacy, the Group of Eight’s language can be unusual, and sometimes downright weird.
Times are tougher than Vernon Koekemoer’s biceps for South Africans at the moment, yet many of us are slipping further into debt.
A German cargo freighter hijacked off the Somali coast in May has been released and its crew freed unharmed, its owner said on Wednesday.
Russian warned on Wednesday it would consider countermeasures if the US goes ahead with a plan to build a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe.
New Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal arrived to a hero’s welcome in his home town of Manacor on the Spanish island of Majorca on Tuesday.
Injured Springbok captain John Smit returned home to SA on Wednesday angered over the one-match suspension handed to All Black lock Brad Thorn.