Second swimmer dies after Hong Kong harbour race
A second swimmer who participated in the Hong Kong harbour race died after she was pulled out of the water unconscious during the event...
Mystery swirls around Assange's status at Ecuadorean Embassy
Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about US presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian...
UN seeks to shore up Colombia ceasefire
The UN Security Council agreed on Tuesday that a new UN mission for Colombia could continue to monitor a ceasefire despite a referendum...
UN beefs up peacekeeping force in DRC capital
The United Nations is moving hundreds of peacekeepers from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to Kinshasa to help deal with a possible...
Matricide convict to be sentenced in November
Judge Christi Liebenberg on Monday said he will be ready to sentence the man recently convicted of killing his own mother with an axe in...
Anthony Foley fluid build-up in lungs, French autopsy confirms
An autopsy has revealed that Irish rugby great Anthony Foley died of an "acute pulmonary edema". The 42-year-old Munster head coach was...
4 shot outside US schools
Four teenage students were shot in the shared parking lot of two San Francisco high schools on Tuesday, and one of the students is in...
More than 350 000 Afghan refugees return from Pakistan
More than 350 000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn homeland from Pakistan this year, UN data shows, with the torrent of...
Shabaab assault on key Somali town leaves 10 dead
Fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group launched a major attack on a strategic town near Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing at least...
Spate of robberies targeting tourists in Swakopmund
The Swakopmund Neighbourhood Watch is appealing to the tourist industry to be vigilant and educate guests from other countries on safety...
