SA stocks have fallen 1.3%, booking their worst weekly performance in six months as investors continued to hit shares of resource firms and banks.
Facebook shares have fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18% at close to their IPO price.
The United Nations has plans to collect a monitoring team from a Syrian town after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack.
In a bid to pressure France and Spain into agreeing to direct negotiations, the Basque separatist group ETA says it has set up a delegation for talks.
Carlos Fuentes was Mexico’s most celebrated novelist and among Latin America’s most prominent authors, and an outspoken critic of US foreign policy.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested after a police raid on his premises found 10 rhino horns, one elephant tusk and nearly R25-million in cash.
Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has accused UN prosecutors of paying witnesses to testify against him as he addressed a war crimes court in The Hague.
Rebekah Brooks has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers.
One of the Lord’s Resistance Army’s top five rebels has been captured by Uganda, bringing the country a step closer to catching Joseph Kony.
A suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead in the Kruger National Park, while two others have been arrested for killing a mother and her calf.
Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the iconic children’s book, has died at the age of 83.
The ICC has charged ex-Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo with four counts of crimes against humanity, adding that his opponents may be similarly charged.
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UN talks to save the Kyoto Protocol begin today in Durban, aimed at cutting emissions blamed for rising sea levels, intense storms and crop failures.
Protesters worldwide geared up for a cry of rage against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of condemning millions to poverty.
South Africa has joined the AU in recognising the National Transitional Council as Libya’s government, saying the NTC had addressed its main concerns.
President Jacob Zuma’s second wife Nompumelelo Ntuli has a 13-year-old son with South African actor Joe Mafela.
SA police fired rubber bullets and water cannons on Tuesday to quell protests in Orange Farm near Johannesburg in which one policeman was shot.