Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, will not compete in any events this year.

More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq.

South Africa's power system remains under pressure as Eskom continues with its planned maintenance programme.

A Sars tax auditor was unhappy over having to reverse her tax assessment of businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane, the court heard.

A teaser poster for a film adaptation of Nelson Mandela's autobiography has been unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival.

John Williamson called himself the ‘Messiah of Sex’ and sold Hollywood stars and ordinary people alike his message of free love.

A gunman shot dead four people in a bank in Israel after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada was denied bail to prevent him absconding to escape deportation from Britain.

Bashar al-Assad must realise that “no option is off table” if Syria fails to negotiate seriously at peace talks in Geneva, Britain's Foreign Secretary said.

Somalia's new government is pursuing talks to resolve rival claims for control in the south that have stoked fears of a return to clan wars.

A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent Afghan provincial council chief.

Black-clad students wielding branches and bamboo sticks mimed the abuse and murder of Khmer Rouge victims on Cambodia's annual "Day of Anger".

Myanmar's President Thein Sein will become the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century.

A man arrested for allegedly raping an 80-year-old pensioner appeared in the Mankweng Magistrate's Court.

South African consular officials have visited a South African woman arrested in Mumbai with 26 kilograms of drugs.

Police are investigating how 27 young initiates died at licensed initiation schools in Mpumalanga.

The Anglican Archbishop and colleagues in the media joined the chorus of condolences for the family of presenter Vuyo Mbuli.

The Constitutional Court will hand down judgment relating to the costs of an application to the Supreme Court of Appeal over the Firearms Control Act.

Murder accused Harvey Isha had to take the blame for an apparent satanic ritual in which teenager Kirsty Theologo died, the court heard.

Two men accused of killing Cape Town schoolboy Enrico Martin appeared in the Athlone Magistrate's Court.