Yahoo! and CNBC have agreed on a content sharing deal in which CNBC will provide stories and videos that will be featured on Yahoo! Finance pages.
Sudanese authorities have suspended an independent newspaper and confiscated the entire Tuesday edition of another, editors have said.
South Africa is to become the first African government bond market to be included in the World Government Bond Index.
Spain earned a 1-1 draw with Italy in their opening Euro 2012 Group C match as the decision to start without a recognised striker backfired.
Kenya’s minister for internal security George Saitoti and his deputy have been killed when a police helicopter crashed into a forest on Sunday.
Finance ministers have agreed to lend Spain up to 100-billion to shore up its teetering banks.
Speaking to reporters, Obama admitted that while corporate profits were strong small businesses were having a tough time getting financing.
Ray Bradbury, a giant of American literature who helped popularise science fiction died on Tuesday, his publisher said.
The Hawks have opened an investigation into allegations of corruption at MTN relating to its purchase of a mobile licence in Iran.
The Group of Seven is to hold emergency talks on the eurozone in a sign of heightened alarm about the threat posed by strain in the monetary union.
A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a church in north Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, witnesses say.
One person has been killed and six others wounded, two critically, in a shooting at Toronto’s main downtown mall.
Kofi Annan has warned that an all-out war looms in Syria, holding President Bashar al-Assad as the first responsible to act to end the conflict.
The majority of households are forced, or choose, to spend most of their income and just keep their fingers crossed about the proverbial rainy day.
Nelson Mandela, making his first appearance on television since a hospital stay in February, has received a flame marking the ANC’s centenary.
A British aid worker, abducted by armed men in Sudan’s Darfur region, has been released after almost three months in captivity
China has reiterated its opposition to military intervention or regime change in Syria, and called again for all sides to support mediation efforts.
The reserve bank says South Africa’s outlook remains modest, with a recovery in domestic demand and supply expected barring further global turmoil.
Kofi Annan has told President Bashar al-Assad that a halt to violence will be required for his six-point peace plan to succeed.
Fewer than 20 of the 108 people killed in Syria’s Houla massacre died from artillery and tank fire, with most others shot in their homes, the UN says.
Two South Africans, including a toddler, were among the 19 foreign nationals who had died in a fire that ripped through shopping mall in Qatar.
Africa’s robust 4.5% economic growth forecast for 2012 should not prompt premature celebration, the African Development Bank has cautioned.
China has condemned the "cruel killings" of civilians in the Syrian town of Houla, while Kofi Annan’s efforts remain the most viable solution.
The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday, with Austrian director Michael Haneke’s "Love" claiming the prestigious Palme d’Or.
Seven members of an Afghan family were killed in a Nato airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Sunday.
The West must realise South Africa does not need its money since it can turn to India and China to fund its economic development, says Gwede Mantashe.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has rallied support with campaign events throughout the nation in a final push ahead of Wednesday’s presidential elections.
A summit of the G8 nations on Saturday came down in favour of a push to balance European austerity with a new dose of US-style stimulus.
Pakistan has blocked access to Twitter in response to "blasphemous" material posted by users on the website, a senior government official says.
Joining a list of record breakers, including a blind person and a 13-year-old boy, a 73-year-old woman has become the oldest woman to climb Everest.
Local mafia cartel the United Sacred Crown are alleged to be behind the bombing of a girls’ school in Italy which killed one and injured seven others.
Donna Summer, whose music dominated the 1970s disco era, died on Thursday at the age of 63.