Michael Phelps suffered a scare before booking his place in a 400m medley showdown with Ryan Lochte as Japan’s Kosuke Hagino led the way.
The TV giant has consolidated its impregnable position in terrestial and satellite broadcasting in Africa. Lloyd Gedye reports.
New details from the Libor scandal inquiry suggest traders working at three major European banks were heavily involved in rigging interest rates.
Stage performances in Italy, Spain and France have suffered from funding cuts, but ticket sales are high.
Google faces a fresh privacy blunder after it admitted it had not deleted all the private data, including emails and passwords, it secretly collected.
Court documents show the suspected Batman massacre gunman was seeing a psychiatrist specialising in schizophrenia before the attack in Colorado.
The UK has followed measures by the US and Netherlands after a UN report accused Rwanda of arming rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Syrian gunships pound rebels and troops clash with insurgents in Aleppo as world powers voice calls for "maximum pressure" to prevent a massacre.
Filmmaker Danny Boyle turned the Olympic Stadium into a jukebox, turning up world-beating rock to send the planet a message: Britain is ready to roll.
The festival aims to survey what is being written in and about South Africa, its society and people.