Human Rights Watch has highlighted the plight of thousands of child labourers as young as eight who are mining gold in grim conditions in Tanzania.
US President Barack Obama has made the case for a limited military strike against Syria while China’s state media warned the West against an attack.
Rumours that SA soldiers have been killed or seriously injured in DRC should not be taken seriously, says the South African National Defence Force.
Israel is bolstering its defence systems ahead of a possible US attack on Syria that could spill across the Jewish state’s northern border.
US President Barack Obama is edging the US closer to a war in Syria, raising echoes of George W Bush’s moves before invading Iraq, says a lawmaker.
Mumbai police have arrested the final member of a gang suspected of raping a photographer, a crime that reignited anger about women’s safety in India.
Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in a fierce army bombardment of areas near Damascus, a Syrian NGO has said.
Zim’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a disputed election which put Robert Mugabe in power was fair, dismissing allegations of vote-rigging.
An electoral court in Madagascar has removed the names of three high-profile presidential contenders, including strongman Andry Rajoelina.
US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says neither his father nor his father’s attorney speak for him "in any way".
Marion Bartoli has made a shock retirement announcement, ending her tennis career at the top of her game just six weeks after winning Wimbledon.
Fifa says it has asked 2018 World Cup hosts Russia to explain in more detail its controversial new law banning "homosexual propaganda."
Zimbabwe’s defeated presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has prepared to mount a legal and political challenge against the "sham" election.
African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has flown into Harare to assess Zimbabwe’s preparedness for next week’s elections.
After 10 hours in labour, the Duchess of Cambridge has spent the first night together with her new son and her husband, Prince William.
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo will lead a team of 60 African Union monitors to Zimbabwe for the July 31 election, says the organisation.
South Sudan is guilty of human rights abuses and awash with corruption, warn campaigners on the second anniversary of the country’s independence.
Morgan Tsvangirai has unveiled a coalition with former allies of Robert Mugabe, in a bid to unseat Zimbabwe’s president at elections later this month.
A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson.
The movement behind nationwide anti-Morsi protests has given him until Tuesday to resign, threatening a campaign of civil disobedience if he stays.
India’s priests are planning to cremate hundreds of flood victims as heavy rains halted the search for thousands of stranded tourists, say officials.
Unions in Greece have gone on a strike in protest over the government’s decision to shut down its public broadcaster as part of cost-cutting measures.
A lecturer at a university in Zimbabwe has been jailed for three months for calling President Robert Mugabe "a rotten old donkey," say lawyers.
Syrian troops bombarded rebel bastions near the capital on Sunday a day after at least 32 civilians, including 11 children, were killed.
Rebels in the Central African Republic have seized another town in their advance on the capital, forcing an army retreat.
The death of a Indian woman after being gang raped reverberated beyond Asia to SA, a country battling its own levels of sexual violence.
Egypt’s electoral commission has confirmed that a new Constitution was passed by 64% of voters, rejecting opposition allegations of polling fraud.
Egyptians have voted in the final round of a referendum on a divisive, Islamist-backed constitution championed by President Mohamed Morsi.
The pope has pardoned his former butler, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for leaking secret papal memos, but banished him from the Vatican.
Road accidents in South Africa have killed 765 people so far this month as the holiday season gets under way, traffic authorities have said.
Australia will formally apologise for the forced adoption of tens of thousands of babies born mostly to unmarried mothers between the 1950s and 1970s.
A car bomb has exploded at a compound owned by a US-based construction company, killing at least one person and wounding 15.