Gen Karake, 54, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, and remanded in custody ahead of a court hearing on Thursday. He is accused of ordering massacres while head of military intelligence in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Louise...
About 10,000 dogs will be slaughtered for their meat at the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin in Guangxi province on Sunday and Monday to mark the summer solstice, state media said. One retired school teacher from Tianjin hit the headlines when...
The survivor was found unconscious in the undercarriage of the plane on Thursday morning having endured freezing temperatures over the 12,875km flight from Johannesburg to London. The body of the dead man was discovered an hour later on the roof of...
The 21-year-old - identified as Dylann Roof of Columbia, South Carolina - was arrested yesterday in North Carolina, a four-hour drive from the scene of the shooting, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. The attack was described...
Attorney General Michael Lauber said the incidents had been reported by Swiss banks. He said his office was analysing a "huge amount" of seized Fifa data in its inquiry. The Swiss investigation is running in parallel to one being carried out by the...
A woman who was banned from selling plots on the Sun on eBay has won the right to take the auction site to court. Maria Duran has been claiming ownership of part of the star since 2010 when she threatened to bill solar power users. The 54-year-old...
The Pretoria High Court was due to decide whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court, which has charged him with the crimes. Mr Bashir was in Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit. A news conference will be held in...
The Pretoria High Court will rule on whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) who have charged him with the crimes. President Bashir is in Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit. He is accused of committing...
His girlfriend has reported that she is about four months' pregnant, and this showed that the "transplant worked", said Andre van der Merwe. The 21-year-old recipient, whose identify is being protected, lost his penis in a botched...
Lufthansa sent the coffins by cargo plane on Tuesday night from Marseille. Elmar Giemulla, a lawyer for some of the families, said the arrival of the remains would give relatives "closure". Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have...
Adou Ouattara was said to be in a "terrible state" when he was found last month in a bag without air vents at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The boy's father was arrested for arranging his son to be smuggled, but is due to be released on...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed that both current and past employees had been affected. The breach could potentially affect every federal agency, officials said. US officials said the hackers were believed to be based in...
That's according to a source close to the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity Tuesday -- one day after a 29-year-old woman from the United States was killed on a safari outside Johannesburg. A family member identified the...
The news came hours after Mr Blatter, 79, announced that he was stepping down from his role. US prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry last week, with seven Fifa officials arrested in Switzerland, part of a group of 14 people indicted. Two...
The ship is floating upside down in a wide stretch of river - state media said rescuers tapping the hull had heard calls for help from inside. The boat, the Eastern Star, reportedly sent no emergency signal. Media reports say the alarm was...
The Sunday Independent quoted Jordaan confirming the payment and making the denial days after US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, described the payment as a bribe which was used to secure Warner vote for the hosting of the 2010 World Cup. “I...
The suspects, who are said to include a Fifa vice-president, have been detained pending extradition to the US. The charges include money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud. Fifa members are gathering in Zurich for their annual meeting on...
"They don't know each other; we ourselves [as a family] don't know that person," Nomalizo Noah told News24. The 88-year-old showed visible signs of frustration as she snapped at the mention of an article published in the Sunday Times, which claimed...
The six, including three university professors, are accused of using the technology to benefit universities and companies controlled by Beijing. One of the group, Tianjin University professor Hao Zhang, has been arrested but the rest are believed to...
His Twitter handle is @POTUS (President Of The United States) and within few hours he had attracted over a million followers. "Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account" is his first tweet. The...
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