Israeli courts wade into the process of selecting who to include on the list of righteous gentiles at a Jerusalem Holocaust memorial amid a campaign to add two Germans and to strike off a Ukrainian who Jewish survivors say has no place among heroes.
The northern Nigerian city of Kaduna was peaceful overnight, officials and residents said on Monday, as riots fuelled by opposition to the Miss World pageant came to an end.
An Australian banker had his testicles examined more than 300 times by mostly female doctors to help him deal with severe depression, a court in Brisbane was told Friday.
Angola’s civil war may have ended, but the behaviour and attitudes of its people are still dominated by violence, with women often on the receiving end.
In a year-long experiment called LaughLab, a British psychology professor asked thousands of people around the world to rate the humour value of a list of jokes. The online search has produced a winner.
A young Pretoria waiter told the Pretoria High Court that he had decided to shoot his brother because he was furious about being framed for the murder of their parents.
An 8-year-old boy who became a media sensation in Thailand after cycling some 100 kilometres in search of his mother has been reunited with her.
The United States has dismissed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s recent reshuffling of his cabinet and repeated its opposition to his leadership of the country.
The wreckage of the aircraft in which former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje died will form part of a memorial for Cronje, businessman Leon Dorfling said in George on Tuesday.
As the HIV/Aids scourge sweeps through tiny, impoverished Swaziland, its absolute monarch, King Mswati III, is expected to take his 10th wife on Saturday.