The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has seen a 7% increase in weekly sales for the final quarter of 2010, taking circulation figures to 50 225.
Bahrain arrested at least six opposition leaders on Thursday for communicating with foreign countries and inciting murder and destruction of property.
Haiti’s exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to return to his home country before elections on Sunday.
Japan may build robots to run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors.
A US drone missile strike on Thursday killed at least 38 suspected militants in a Pakistani region known as a haven for Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.
Egyptians will vote on proposed constitutional changes on Saturday in the first election in decades in which they will not know the result in advance.
Dance act Faithless are splitting up, according to a message posted on their Facebook page. The statement said it was "time to close to the book".
Business conditions in the retail sector in the first quarter of 2011 improved for the first time since 2007, a survey showed on Thursday.
Japan’s ambassador to South Africa, Toshiro Ozawa, on Wednesday thanked South Africans for their condolences.
A section of the legislation that paved the way for the disbanding of the Scorpions and the creation of the Hawks was on Thursday declared invalid.