Three Swedes behind the so-called "teddy bear" stunt in Belarus have been called to appear before the Belarus KGB.
White House candidate Mitt Romney will announce Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate later on Saturday, US media has reported.
Caster Semenya has put Kenya’s defending Olympic champ Pamela Jelimo on notice, with running her season’s best time of 1:57.67sec in the 800m semis.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on television for the first time in more than two weeks as his troops fight rebels in Aleppo.
The South African National Space Agency has revealed that a South African team helped Nasa to land the Curiosity rover on Mars.
Syrian rebels have bombarded an air base used by regime forces to pound Aleppo, while dozens have been reported killed in a raid near Damascus.
Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has swept into the Olympic quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Russia’s Vera Zvonareva on Wednesday.
Michael Phelps may be the most successful athlete in Olympic history but he is "probably not" the greatest, according to Sebastian Coe.
Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr has been hit with an arrest warrant after he allegedly pushed a female bartender during a dispute at a bar.
Eight women badminton players at the Olympics have been charged with "throwing" matches to secure an easier draw in the next round.
Zimbabwe’s central bank has hiked 10-fold statutory capital requirements for merchant banks to $100-million to restore confidence in the sector.
An attacker has stabbed three Eritrean men in a Tel Aviv video store in what police said they were initially treating as a racist attack.
The new Batman flick "The Dark Knight Rises" has remained number one at North American box offices, despite the mass shooting in Colorado.
Versatile swimmer Chad le Clos provided South Africa’s only shining light on the third day of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran’s biggest-ever banking scandal.
The US wasted about $206-million on building facilities for a now-downsized Iraqi police training programme which a top official termed "useless".
Iran is thinking of boycotting next month’s Venice International Film Festival because of EU sanctions hitting its oil-dependent economy.
Indian police have concluded that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards carried out an attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February.
Russia has vetoed UN action against Syria, but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says he’s unsure what role Assad will have in the nation’s future.
A court has ruled that three HIV-positive women were sterilised without informed consent but dismissed claims it was done because of their HIV status.
Cameron van der Burgh has won the men’s 100m breaststroke final, finishing in 58.46 seconds and securing SA’s first medal at the London Olympic Games.
With a number of recent Hollywood hit films featuring arrow slingers in lead roles, archery has received a much needed boost at the London Olympics.
Russia has made no agreement to grant Bashar al-Assad asylum and is "not even thinking about" doing so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Egypt’s new prime minister will announce a cabinet on Thursday almost a month after Mohamed Morsi took office amid a power struggle with the military.
Opera star Yevgeny Nikitin, who was forced to pull out of the Bayreuth Festival over swastika tattoos, insists the images are not Nazi.
Zanu-PF has dismissed as "nonsense" the EU decision to link the lifting of most sanctions to a peaceful vote on a new Constitution.
Resistance to Aids drugs is growing in parts of Africa but should not hamper the life-saving drug rollout, researchers have reported.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked al-Shebab insurgents have executed three members for "spying" for Western intelligence agencies.
Bradley Wiggins virtually secured his maiden Tour de France victory after winning the penultimate stage-time trial of the race on Saturday.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has secured his second consecutive pole position when he outpaced his rivals in qualifying for the German Grand Prix.
Graeme Smith has hit a century in his 100th Test as South Africa dominated the third morning of the first Test match against England at the Oval.
Hundreds of sex workers who said they were denied visas to attend an international Aids conference in the US have begun their own meeting in protest.