An alleged senior member of al-Qaeda has been captured in Libya after US forces launched raids in the country and Somalia over the weekend.
On Saturday Kenya’s military spokesman named four men who are alleged to have been involved in the attack, which killed at least 67 people.
More than 100 people drowned and over 200 were unaccounted for after a boat packed caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
The US and South Korea have signed a new agreement to prevent North Korea from using nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction.
Due to radar guns, which measure service speeds, not being deployed, Venus Williams won’t be able to better her fastest serve world record.
Kenya has asked the US to lift an advisory warning US citizens over travelling there after the September 21 Nairobi mall attack.
Golden Dawn is under investigation for the murder of rapper Pavlos Fissas, who bled to death after being stabbed by a party sympathiser last week.
Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two women kidnapped by a gang for sale.
Dozens have been killed after gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in an attack claimed by al-Shabab.
Germany has rejected a suggestion it might have contributed to the sarin attack in Damascus after it was revealed the country sold chemicals to Syria.
UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom has found in his report that nerve agent sarin was used in the August 21 attack on Damascus.
In reaching a deal on Syria after what a US official described as three days of "hard-fought" debate, Moscow and Washington can each count benefits.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Syria is holding thousands of tonnes of unmixed "binary components".
The Brics group have agreed to chip $100-billion into a currency reserve pool that could help counter a possible balance-of-payments crisis.
Countrywide strikes by mining, transport and metalworkers has weakened the rand and eroded investor confidence.
Union leaders have warned that mine owners’ handling of pay talks could provoke violence in Tuesday’s strikes in the gold sector.
Egypt’s state television says its ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, is to stand trial in a criminal court for "incitement to murder".
Barack Obama decides force is necessary Syria, while seeking congressional approval to authorise it.
Seven Nigerian ruling party governors and a former presidential candidate formed a splinter group opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday.
Anglo American Platinum, the world’s top platinum producer, has said it will shed around 4 800 jobs through its restructuring process.
SA has criticised "the possibility of a military intervention" in Syria by the West, calling on all sides to negotiate a better solution.
Britain’s David Cameron and US President Barack Obama have no doubt Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has laid the groundwork for potential military action against the Syrian government over a chemical weapons attack.
Acsa will not permit demonstrations on airport premises during a strike by Satawu members at airline SAA’s technical department.
Chelsea manager José Mourinho says his Man United counterpart David Moyes should shoulder the blame for Wayne Rooney’s desire to leave Old Trafford.
Bashar al-Assad has denied that his forces used chemical weapons on civilians, warning the US that a military intervention in Syria would fail.
Civil rights drama "The Butler" by director Lee Daniels has taken home its second US and Canadian box office title.
The UN is being dragged into a mission in Mali likely to involve state-building as much as peacekeeping.
Actor Wentworth Miller has come out as a gay man in a letter declining an invitation to attend a Russian festival in light of Moscow’s anti-gay laws.
Best-selling American author Elmore Leonard has died aged 87, having suffered a stroke last month, the writer’s website has announced.
An Italian sporting court has ordered Lazio to shut the notorious Curva Nord section of the ground for one game following racist chants.
Lindsay Lohan has told Oprah Winfrey that she just needs to "shut up and listen" as her ideas of what works have not helped her in the past.