LONDON — Brent crude edged further above $113 a barrel on Friday, up about $4 since the start of the week, on concerns that an insurgency in Iraq could trigger civil war and eventually hit oil exports. Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric urged his followers to take ...

LONDON — Brent crude edged further above $113 a barrel on Friday, up about $4 since the start of the week, on concerns that an insurgency in Iraq could trigger civil war and eventually hit oil exports. Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric urged his followers to take ...

SWAP: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said Sgt Bergdahl's health was deteriorating. Picture: BLOOMBERG. Related articles. Hope for peace in Afghanistan amid criticism of prisoner swap · Afghan prisoners allowed freedom · US prisoner walks free ...

IT IS not often that Apple's revelations at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) are greeted more enthusiastically by developers than by users of Apple's computers, smartphones and tablets, but that is exactly what has happened with this ...

IT IS not often that Apple's revelations at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) are greeted more enthusiastically by developers than by users of Apple's computers, smartphones and tablets, but that is exactly what has happened with this ...

IT IS not often that Apple's revelations at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) are greeted more enthusiastically by developers than by users of Apple's computers, smartphones and tablets, but that is exactly what has happened with this ...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir (left) and SPLM opposition leader Riek Machar (right) hand over the Cessation of Hostilities treaty in Addis Ababa on Friday. Picture: AFP PHOTO. Related articles. UN chief on peace mission in South Sudan · Kerry sternly ...

President Jacob Zuma greets supporters of the African National Congress during their final election rally at FNB Stadium in Johannesburd, May 4, 2014. Picture: REUTERS. Related articles. SACP rallies behind ANC ahead of elections · Supporters flock to ...

CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi faces another dilemma shortly after his court-directed return to Cosatu House. Like President Jacob Zuma before him, but on a micro level, Vavi appears beholden to ...

CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi faces another dilemma shortly after his court-directed return to Cosatu House. Like President Jacob Zuma before him, but on a micro level, Vavi appears beholden to ...

ON THE video, an old woman in a woolly hat in Crimea is berating Russian soldiers. "Fear is the psychology of the slave," she shouts. Then a man in black says, "You are a provocateur, babushka," and shoves her. The ugly scene, watched 600,000 times on ...

Chad's President Idriss Deby (left) is welcomed by European Council president Herman Van Rompuy during the European Union-Africa summit in Brussels on Wednesday. Picture: REUTERS. Related articles. AU boycott of EU summit not expected ...

HIGHER fuel and Road Accident Fund levies from next month may leave a sour taste, but cash-strapped consumers can breathe a little sigh of relief after Energy Minister Ben Martins scrapped the 3c/l inland transport recovery levy on Friday. With petrol prices ...

HIGHER fuel and Road Accident Fund levies from next month may leave a sour taste, but cash-strapped consumers can breathe a little sigh of relief after Energy Minister Ben Martins scrapped the 3c/l inland transport recovery levy on Friday. With petrol prices ...

African National Congress chief whip Stone Sizani addresses the media on Wednesday regarding President Jacob Zuma's private estate at Nkandla. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON. Related articles. DA to ask SARS to conduct inquiry into Zuma's Nkandla tax ...

VIENNA — Iran and six world powers locked horns on Wednesday about the fate of a planned Iranian nuclear reactor that could yield plutonium for bombs, diplomats said, although Tehran's foreign minister voiced optimism that their July 20 deadline for a ...

A FORENSIC audit conducted by PwC has found evidence of "something fishy" with the tender documents submitted for the lease of the Independent Electoral Commission's (IEC's) head office, and recommended that its chairwoman, Pansy Tlakula, be held ...

THE Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday chose to move part of this year's Indian Premier League (IPL) to the match-fixing badlands of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rather than stage matches in South Africa. After the IPL player ...

LONDON — Brent oil futures rose above $108.50 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by building tension in the Ukrainian crisis as the West threatened sanctions against Russia as early as this week. But concern over demand growth in the world's two biggest oil ...

KANO, Nigeria — An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Thursday ordered four men to be flogged with horsewhips and fined after being convicted of homosexuality, a court clerk said. The four, aged between 22 and 28, were sentenced and received 15 ...