The wealthy Gupta family resorted to using diplomatic channels when it failed to get landing rights from ministers and the Airports Company SA, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe says.

A top al-Qaeda leader has urged Tunisian Salafists to avoid falling to government provocations in order to retain public support, as clashes erupted between them and police.

A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle has confessed that he had killed his two young children by slitting their throats in the central French city of Lille.

A collated wrap of all the results and match reports from the final day's action in the English Premiership.

The intention of the National Union of Mineworkers to seek pay hikes of between 15% and 60%, has reignited fears of last year's deadly mine strikes.

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Most of the 45 mice sent into space to find out how well organisms can withstand extended flights, have died, Russian researchers say.

Although she lost no money in the Fidentia scandal, Susan Erasmus feels deeply distressed by Brown's lenient sentence.