Bad weather has forced authorities to temporarily call off the search for more than 100 bodies from a capsized South Korean ferry. More than 100 people are still missing a week after the Sewol capsized off South Korea's coast. (AFP). Concerns are growing ...

The "Vote No" campaign, co-headed by Ronnie Kasrils, is meant to encourage disheartened voters to go to the polls on May 7, not a "no vote" campaign. Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils. (Madelene Cronje, M&G). Former deputy health minister ...

Before ending his cross-examination, prosecutor Gerrie Nel questioned Oscar Pistorius over what he heard and did before he shot Reeva Steenkamp. Murder-accused athlete Oscar Pistorius. (Gallo). Prosecutor Gerrie Nel on Tuesday concluded his ...

Nigeria has become Africa's biggest economy, leapfrogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country's GDP. Global investors have been eyeing Nigeria as a potential boom market, along the lines of the BRIC ...

Despite cold weather and the Taliban rejecting Afghanistan's election as a foreign plot, voters turned out in large numbers to choose a new president. Long queues formed outside polling stations in cities across the country, despite cold, wet weather, as voters ...

In an unexpected move, the presidency has thrown open the doors of Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead to the M&G, inviting us for a tour of the property. Driving towards President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home in rural KwaZulu-Natal. (Madelene Cronje, M&G).

The US president tells his Russian counterpart his political strategy is a generation out of date. US President Barack Obama has told the Euro elite in Brussels that Russia's actions in Crimea cannot be ignored as they set an anarchic precedent. (Reuters).

Liberia suspects numerous infections and five deaths are from the Ebola virus spreading from neighbouring Guinea, with one suspected case in Canada. Workers from Doctors Without Borders unload emergency medical supplies to deal with the Ebola ...

Liberia suspects numerous infections and five deaths are from the Ebola virus spreading from neighbouring Guinea, with one suspected case in Canada. Workers from Doctors Without Borders unload emergency medical supplies to deal with the Ebola ...

The court has heard Oscar Pistorius's phone history, which focused particularly on the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed. Pistorius said at his bail application he was woken up on February 14 by what he thought was an intruder in his house. (AFP). A phone ...

In the weeks before Reeva Staankamp died she had several Whatsapp exchanges with her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius that indicated fights. On Monday, the Oscar Pistorius trial centered around their Whatsapp exchanges. (AFP). A few weeks before Oscar ...

Elite Russian troops have stormed a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea as Russia's defiant march rolled on despite sanctions and growing global isolation. A pro-Russian protesters takes down a Ukrainian flag as they storm a Ukrainian air force base in the small ...

Hardliners in the party meet to strategise how to rubbish public protector Thuli Madonsela's report on Nkandla. Ministers in the security cluster – Siyabonga Cwele, Thulas Nxesi, Nathi Mthethwa and Jeff Radebe – are said to be planning a strategy to counter ...

A former police officer has testified that evidence was mishandled on the scene were Oscar Pistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar Pistorius contends that he shot Steenkamp through a locked door in the belief that there was an intruder hiding behind it. (AFP).

Nine residents from two collapsed buildings in Manhattan were unaccounted for by nightfall following a deadly explosion, says mayor Bill de Blasio. Firefighters battled throughout the afternoon to extinguish the heavy fire in East Harlem. (Reuters).

Whether live or delayed, the testimony of expert witnesses is prone to misinterpretation, over-interpretation, and even under-interpretation. Oscar Pistorius. (AFP). Forensic pathologist Gert Saayman is an excellent witness even measured against his expert ...

Russia says any US sanctions imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine will boomerang and that Crimea has the right to self-determination. The most serious East-West confrontation since the end of the Cold War escalated on Thursday when Crimea's ...

On the third day of the Oscar Pistorius trial, testimony was heard that he passed the blame when a gun went off in his hand in a busy restaurant. Oscar Pistorius confers with his instructing attorney Brian Webber. (AFP). Day three of the Oscar Pistorius trial saw ...

Some media have published a photo of an Oscar Pistorius trial witness, which, while not in contravention of the court order, has caused ruptions. Oscar Pistorius in court on the second day of trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp (AFP). It was a dramatic ...

Some SABC staffers say the Communication Workers' Union's support of its acting COO, as the "Hlaudi Motsoeneng Coalition", would badly affect workers. SABC's acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G).