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Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last summer in attacks he saw as punishing "traitors" who favoured immigration, a psychiatric team said on Tuesday, in a report contradicting an earlier one that found him

Zimbabwe has dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was battling for life in a Singapore hospital as "a lot of hogwash", after his absence forced cabinet to postpone this week's meeting. Zimbabwe's information minister, Webster

DNA taken from a coffin found in a mass grave in Libya may match that of Saturday Star photographer Anton Hammerl. The DNA sample wil be sent to the International Commission on Missing Persons in Bosnia for verification as Libya does not have the

Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi's first female president in a ceremony in the capital Lilongwe on Saturday, two days after the death of her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika. President Jacob Zuma has congratulated Banda for assuming the

A former student opened fire at a Christian college in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three after telling former classmates: "Get in line and I'm going to kill you all." Police said the suspect, a 43

The activist group behind the Kony 2012 viral video says it will launch a sequel on today (Tuesday 4th April). The California-based group Invisible Children promised that its new film would give more details and context than the first, which

A senior British parliamentary figure has claimed that he had kinky gay sex sessions with honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani. These claims were published this weekend in the British newspaper, Daily Star. According to the report, the un

Britain's High Court has temporarily halted the extradition of businessman Shrien Dewani to South Africa, where he is wanted in connection with the murder of his wife Anni. The ruling was made on mental health grounds, after Dewani's lawyers said

A spate of racist comments directed at English Premier League footballers and broadcast on Twitter has prompted concerns about use of the social media network. In the past week, two cases have come to court involving students who sent out