Analysts have warned the DA’s goal of 8% growth is not possible – at least, not in terms of the opposition party’s proposed economic growth plan.
Switzerland footballer Michel Morganella has been sent home from the Olympics after racially abusing South Korea’s players on Twitter.
Jacob Zuma’s popularity wanes in Gauteng, while the Limpopo textbook debacle may become a ugly blemish on the president’s record.
The ANC’s national executive committee has acknowledged that the late delivery of textbooks in Limpopo has been a "serious failure" by government.
A massive power cut has blacked out northern India, leaving more than 300-million people without power in the worst outage in a decade.
Palestinians have accused US presidential candidate Mitt Romney of undermining peace prospects by calling Jerusalem "the capital of Israel".
A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran’s biggest-ever banking scandal.
The US wasted about $206-million on building facilities for a now-downsized Iraqi police training programme which a top official termed "useless".
Iran is thinking of boycotting next month’s Venice International Film Festival because of EU sanctions hitting its oil-dependent economy.
Britain’s much-maligned public transport system coped with an unusually quiet early rush hour on the first full working day of the Olympics.