The Group of Eight (G8) members agreed at their summit to grant an extra one billion dollars in debt relief to 42 of the world’s poorest countries, a German government source said.
A stinging movie satire of America’s gun culture is cleaning up at the US box office just as an army of law enforcement officials battles to halt a sniper in the country’s capital in his tracks.
A UN panel has recommended freezing the assets of former Zimbabwean and UK millionaire John Bredenkamp, who was named by a UN report as a key arms trader who has made millions from illegally exploiting natural resources in the DRC and supplying Zimbabwe with military equipment.
Scores of African National Congress supporters converged on the University of the North stadium in Mankweng outside Polokwane on Saturday morning to pay their last respects to the late ANC MP Peter Mokaba.
A court in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Saturday sentenced a young Muslim to death for making derogatory statements about the Prophet Mohammed and Islam as a whole, police and court officials said.
A tribal council ordered an 18-year-old girl gang-raped by four men to punish her family after her brother was seen walking with a woman from a higher class tribe.
Thousands of people were left homeless when 600 shacks were destroyed by fire at the Grabouw informal settlement in the Boland on Sunday.
A top official at the Grootvlei Prison boasted to a prisoner that he was masterminding a plot to take charge of the facility.
Rights watchdog Amnesty International has accused Zimbabwe’s government of systematically shielding people responsible for torture, abductions and political killings from justice.