Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to London, while the women sat in the cheap seats.
Egypt’s former spy chief Omar Suleiman, one of the top figures in the regime ousted by last year’s uprising, has died. He was 76.
Mitt Romney, stung by persistent attacks on his record as a businessman, has mounted a blistering counterattack against President Barack Obama.
Despite hopes to keep his private and public lives separate, French President Hollande’s image is facing attack following a family twitter feud.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been cleared of racially abusing an opponent during a Premier League match last year.
Officials say rioting prisoners in Malawi have briefly stalled the release of convicts who had been granted presidential pardons.
A single party dominated Mexico for most of the past century, and its loss 12 years ago proved to many that the country was finally a democracy.
Google is racing ahead with its new way to search for information, read messages, watch video and post photos without having to use a handheld device.
Two Russian navy ships are completing preparations to sail to Syria with a unit of marines on a mission to protect Russian interest.
Israel has forced 120 South Sudanese to leave the country, starting what is to be a mass deportation of thousands of unauthorised African migrants.
A rare video shot by a soldier in a unit nicknamed the "match battalion" has shown Sudanese troops burning a village in South Sudan last year.
A vehicle carrying Britain’s ambassador to Libya has been attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in Benghazi.
Millions of North Korean children are not getting the food, and health care they need to develop physically or mentally accoring to a new UN report.
A coroner’s report has put to rest a decades-long dispute about whether a baby had been dragged away by a dingo or murdered by her mother in 1980.
Hosni Mubarak has been slipping in and out of consciousness a week after Egypt’s ousted leader was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence.
Swiss bank UBS AG may have lost as much as $350 million due to technical glitches on the Nasdaq stock exchange the day Facebook went public.
The Chiefs have beaten the Blues 41-34 to consolidate their place atop the overall standings in rugby’s Super 15.
The suddenly dismal news on American jobs is a blow to President Barack Obama’s re-election argument that he has been a steward of recovery.
Facebook is letting its nearly 1-billion users vote on changes to its privacy policy.
In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs away from her burning Vietnamese village.
An appeals court has upheld the convictions of a disgraced cricketer and an agent who were jailed for separate incidents of match fixing.
US President Barack Obama is going to welcome his predecessor and proudly preside as George W Bush’s image is enshrined at the White House forever.
The United States’s FBI has joined the investigation into this week’s Nairobi blast, which officials say was likely caused by a fertiliser bomb.
Former England defender Sol Campbell is warning fans against travelling to Poland and Ukraine, claiming authorities are failing to tackle racism.
Three top candidates in Egypt’s presidential race filed appeals to the election commission, alleging violations in the first round.
Described as "a sensitive man" by Nelson Mandela’s lawyer, Gcina Malindi is the anti-apartheid activist now best known for his tearful breakdown.
The UN’s nuclear agency chief says Iran has agreed to restart the IAEA’s probe into suspicions it has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms.
The world’s tallest tower and Japan’s biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, has been opened to the public.
SA’s Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has arrived in Zimbabwe on her first mission to the troubled Southern African nation.
Dale Steyn took three wickets for eight runs and led the Deccan Chargers to a nine-run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.
Zimbabwe’s justice minister has rejected allegations that the country has state-sponsored violence, and vowed not to recognise gay rights.
The chief negotiator for Ecowas says Mali’s junta has accepted that the current interim president will stay in office until new elections can be held.