Angela Merkel faces the biggest challenge to her leadership with traditionally loyal allies openly criticising her approach to the euro zone crisis.
British crooner Tom Jones was admitted to hospital in Monaco but his website denied suggestions that he was suffering from heart troubles.
Free State ANCYL members have been called up for a solidarity gathering at Luthuli House in support of league president Julius Malema and others.
Former Springbok flyhalf Naas Botha says the history books show that Australia’s victory in the Tri-Nations series should count in favour of SA.
Typhoon Nanmadol has killed at least eight people and left flattened bridges and blocked roads in its wake as it moved away from the Philippines .
Revellers have packed London streets for one of Europe’s biggest street parties with record numbers of police on duty to curb any further riots.
Spain’s ruling and opposition parties bridged bitter rivalry and struck a deal to cap the long-term public deficit and fend off fears of a state debt.
Jose Mourinho believes he should have lived 100 years ago at a time when people were less hypocritical.
Libyan forces closed in on Muammar Gaddafi’s home town, vowing to seize it by force if negotiations fail.
Police say a racial connection should not be made to the Facebook picture showing a man posing with a rifle over an apparently lifeless body of child.