The Gaza Strip’s Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, on Saturday denied reports that his group has been involved in fighting outside of Palestine.
The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as it sank is set to fetch a world record fee for memorabilia when it goes on sale on Saturday.
French authorities on Saturday found that police could have acted with more caution when detaining the school girl.
The Proteas could be without Hashim Amla for next week’s second Test against Pakistan as he returned to SA for the birth of his second child.
The EU’s Jose Manuel Barroso has pledged to rebuild Italian refugee centres after the migrant shipwreck on Italy’s shores that claimed 302 people.
There are far more African billionaires than previously thought, and most of them are Nigerian, says "Ventures" magazine.
Russia has installed an all-encompassing surveillance system called Sorm at the site of next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
More than 300 African asylum seekers are feared dead after a boat carrying them to the Italian island of Lampedusa capsized on Thursday.
Mining giant Anglo American Platinum said it was losing an average of 3 100 ounces of production a day since the beginning of a strike.
Following a chemical attack in Damascus, disarmament experts will begin cataloguing Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons in order to destroy it.
Store owners and many Kenyans are angry that goods appeared to have been looted during a shooting at Westgate mall in Nairobi where 67 people died.
Actor-director Angelina Jolie is set to direct her second film "Unbroken", based on the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand.
Al-Shabab’s insistence that no woman joined them in the Nairobi mall attack may dismiss speculation that ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite took part.
Ruling Congress party scion Rahul Gandhi’s rejection of a government decree to protect convicted lawmakers has "dropped a bomb" on India’s premier.
Media say the "White Widow", suspected of being linked to the Nairobi mall attack, took out loans and rented property in Johannesburg under an alias.
A British zoo said it has banned visitors from wearing leopard or zebra-print clothes because they were confusing the animals.
Workers of Anglo American Platinum, the world’s top platinum producer, will down tools after the company handed out 3 300 dismissal notices.
Jailed Pussy Riot musician Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been moved to an isolated cell, which Russia’s prison service says is "a so-called safe place".
Despite Kenyan government assurances of success on Twitter, another explosion and more gunfire has been heard coming from the mall.
African leaders have called on the Democratic Republic of Congo government and opposition rebels to quickly make an accord to end renewed conflict.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has captured a landslide victory in German elections for guiding Europe’s top economy unharmed through the debt crisis.
A highly anticipated Apple event will look to extend the reach of the iPhone to new markets as the tech giant moves to regain momentum.
The Springboks are prepared for what they call the "ultimate challenge" against the All Blacks after their historic win over Australia.
As the threat of US-led strikes on Syria looms large, Italy is preparing for a dramatic rise in refugee landings on its shores.
Justice Minister Sidiki Kaba has ruled out legalising homosexuality in Senegal despite being a former leading activist for gay rights, say reports.
The UN has called the M23 rebels’ move of enforcing a curfew in areas in the DRC under their control "completely unacceptable".
World number one Novak Djokovic has leaped to the defense of Roger Federer, telling critics to give the 17-time major winner a break.
The NUM says reports that it dropped its demands are not true, adding that its strike in the gold sector has had an "overwhelming" response.
Kenya’s Parliament has been recalled to debate ending membership of the ICC, ahead of a crimes against humanity trial of the vice-president.
Zimbabwe’s legislators have been sworn in for five-year terms following disputed elections won by President Robert Mugabe.
Syria awaits a military attack "at any moment", an official has said just hours after UN experts probing a suspected gas attack left the country.
Irish writer and poet Seamus Heaney, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, has died.