Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.

Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday...

Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman. The...

A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76. Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...

A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking. Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing...

Saudi Arabia has evacuated 240 villages because of fighting with Yemeni rebels, the UN children’s fund has reported. The Unicef statement said more than 50...

Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...

U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite...

Algeria’s team bus was attacked by stone-throwing fans in Cairo on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s highly-charged World Cup qualifier against Egypt, police officials...

In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...

A circus lion went on a night-time odyssey in Germany when thieves stole the van carrying him and then abandoned it after crashing into a road sign.

Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of...

Girls’ expectations that they can “have it all” may be overly ambitious and they should not feel guilty for taking time out of future careers to raise...

Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa...

Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would...

The document calls for a “combination of carrot and stick” to encourage Taliban commanders and foot soldiers to lay down their arms and rejoin Afghan...

People hurled stones and eggs at the Kosovan prime minister’s convoy this week, a spurt of violence just days before the one-time Serbian province holds its first...

The bulletproof jacket worn on 26/11 by Hemant Karkare, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief gunned down by terrorists, was among a lot of 110 rejected first as...

Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...

Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday. The ministry did not detail the...