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.
A silicon ring, currently being tested in trials across Africa, could be the new way to prevent HIV infection in women.
Russian women punk band Pussy Riot’s trial – which began on Monday – seems certain to become a defining moment in Vladimir Putin’s political career.
Indian police have concluded that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards carried out an attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February.
Russia has vetoed UN action against Syria, but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says he’s unsure what role Assad will have in the nation’s future.
Businessman Robert Gumede has been awarded R53-million in damages and costs by a UK court against his former business partner, John Sterenborg.
Men who rape look and act like everyone else, almost right up until they start raping, as confessions on Reddit reveal, writes Megan Carpentier.
President Jacob Zuma is facing growing calls from within ANC structures to hold Angie Motshekga to account for the Limpopo textbook debacle.