German Chancellor Angela Merkel has added her voice to calls to bolster the European Investment Bank and to use EU infrastructure funds more flexibly.
The remission of sentences announced by Jacob Zuma is a slap in the face for crime victims and their families, the DA has said in a statement.
Sierra Leone was in festive mood for the 51st anniversary of independence, a day after Liberian warlord Charles Taylor was convicted of aiding rebels.
Tens of thousands have protested across Syria as a suicide bombing rocked the capital, killing 11 people fuelling scepticism over a UN peace plan.
Bill Clinton has appeared in an election campaign video in which he hails Barack Obama for ordering the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
Sprinter Simon Magakwe has equalled the 24-year-old national men’s 100 metres record at the SA Student Athletics Championships in Johannesburg.
South Africa has agreed to loan Malawi nearly R270-million to ease crippling fuel shortages, in a show of confidence in the new government.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has voiced alarm over the fourth murder of a journalist in Brazil this year.
A Soyuz capsule with two Russians and an American on board has touched down safely in mild weather on the sweeping steppes of central Kazakhstan.
Spain’s economic woes has deepened alarmingly as the government revealed that unemployment rose to nearly 25%.