Oscar Pistorius will be committed to the hospital wing of one of South Africa's toughest prisons if the double-amputee Olympic track star is sentenced to jail time for killing his girlfriend, the head of the prison service said on Thursday. Read More...
Lesotho's parliament is due to reconvene Friday, the first step of a peace deal aimed at resolving weeks of crisis sparked by an attempted military coup. Read More...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius should be given "sufficient punishment" for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, her cousin has told the sentencing hearing in Pretoria. Read More...
African National Congress stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is to undergo surgery again, her daughter Zindzi Mandela wrote on social networking site Twitter on Monday. Read More...
They may have made the court benches squeak and provoked nervous mutterings from those in the gallery, but it wasn't the appearance of former murder-accused bouncers Mikey Schultz and Guil Yahav in court alongside Oscar Pistorius’s… Read More...
The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius case has scrutinised the athlete's charity work, on a second day of his sentencing hearing.
Pistorius's main motive was to further his career, the prosecutor said, in an attempt to show he… Read More...
A UN employee infected with Ebola has died at a hospital in Germany. Doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man, 56, died despite receiving experimental drugs to treat the virus. Read More...
An emergency medical crew in protective gear was dispatched to a plane after a passenger sneezed and shouted: 'I have Ebola' in an apparent prank. Read More...
ZAMBIA - In an unprecedented move, the First Lady of Zambia Dr. Christine Kaseba Sata has temporarily taken over Presidential duties at State House, according to an impeccable source at State House. Read More...