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Lesotho Police clamped down on early election victory celebrations in Maseru for a few hours on Sunday night, closing streets in the CBD and near the palace, and guarding banks, shops and restaurants. Opposition party supporters started

A Taiwanese commercial flight with 53 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in Taipei    

 The Department of International Relations says it will be providing consular services to a South African man sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug trafficking. Deon Cornelius of Johannesburg was sentenced on Thursday, on his 29th birthday

 Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris, and still people are lining up at kiosks in case of a spare copy of the paper fronting the Prophet Muhammad. The core of the satire publication's staff perished a week

The United States has issued a global travel warning after the terror attack in France, and earlier attacks in Australia and Canada. The alert comes hours after French police killed three hostage-takers in a pair of incidents. Two of the men

A relentless man hunt for the two brothers who killed 12 people at the headquarters of French Satire Magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday is over. Load explosions and gunfire erupted from a printing works near the Charles de Gaulle

The Cape Town Press Club says the best way to honour those killed in the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo's Paris office, is to campaign for freedom of expression around the world. It says the brazen attack has very correctly been

 Two people, including a female traffic police officer, have been shot on the southern edge of the French capital, Paris. According to the latest reports, the woman died a short while ago. Thursday's shooting follows a day after masked