A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40 others.
Cement maker Pretoria Portland Cement is to sell a 6.5% stake to its staff and black investors in a deal worth about $133.4-million.
The crime-fighting crusader could fly but if he did, he would smash into the ground and probably die, a group of physics students have calculated.
The end of the five-year marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has been settled quickly, but no word on what happens to six-year-old Suri.
UN peace envoy Kofi Annan says he and President Bashar al-Assad have agreed on an approach to Syria’s conflict that he would take to the opposition.
The Afghan central bank says at least $6-billion a year in new investment will be needed to foster economic growth.
Charges being brought against US Air Force sergeants include attempting to have a sexual relationship with a recruit, adultery and sexual assault.
Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not a goal has been scored has been approved by the International Football Association Board.
Black ownership of fuel companies operating in South Africa is far below state-mandated targets agreed in 2000, says Energy Minister Dipuo Peters.
Vodacom has announced that chief executive Pieter Uys will leave the company in March next year and be replaced by Shameel Joosub.
South African stocks have gained 1% as a surge in new vehicle sales drove prices of automobile retailers such as Imperial Holdings higher.
MTN has asked a US court to dismiss a $4.2-billion suit brought by rival Turkcell after alleged underhand tactics to obtain an Iranian mobile license.
Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has quit over an interest rate-rigging scandal, the latest in a probe spanning a dozen major banks.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has flown to Singapore for what an aide called a routine medical check-up, reviving speculation about his health.
Ross Taylor is also expected to miss the early part of the following five-match one-day series due to a shoulder injury
Merkel’s acceptance of the crisis-fighting measures at the euro summit is being heralded as a victory for French, Italian and Spanish presidents.
Construction of SA’s largest liquefied petroleum gas storage facility will start early in 2013 and the plant will be operational in late 2014.
Logistics group Transnet plans to issue a foreign currency bond of at least $500-million this financial year to help fund its expansion programme.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has won an incident-packed European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday to take the overall championship lead.
A South African man and woman taken hostage by Somali pirates in October 2010 have been released.
South Sudan’s 2012/13 budget aims to make up for the loss of almost all its revenues after its shutdown of oil production in January.
Consumer inflation has slowed to within the reserve bank’s 3% to 6% target range in May, raising expectations of an interest-rate cut this year.
Employment in South Africa’s formal sector has edged up 0.1% in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, says Stats SA.
Mark Bowman, Africa boss for global brewer SABMiller, is building new breweries in Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia this year.
Egyptians must decide between Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister of Hosni Mubarak, or Mohamed Morsy, a United States-educated engineer.
Uefa’s disciplinary panel has decided to action against Croatia’s Football Federation for racist chants by their fans against Italy.
Iran never misses a chance to parade internationally and has been buoyed by suggestions that it may join global powers reviving Syrian peace efforts.
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti says its army is suffering food shortages after recruiting thousands of new soldiers without authority.
Thousands of displaced Muslim Rohingyas and Rakhine Buddhists need food and water in Burma after fleeing the country’s worst clashes in years.
The government has lost patience with state worker unions, breaking off wage talks with Cosatu, which has been seeking above-inflation pay increases.
Portugal’s Silvestre Varela scored a dramatic 87th-winner to give his side a 3-2 win over Denmark in a pulsating Euro 2012 Group B match.
Eastern Platinum could cut jobs at its Crocodile River Mine in South Africa as costs rise and platinum prices fall.