South Africa

Kelly Rowland has admitted to being jealous of friend and former band-mate Beyoncé in an explosive new song.

France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the United States air force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, a report says.

The US space agency Nasa has given final approval to the first US mission to fly a spacecraft to an astroid and bring samples of it back to Earth.

Russia's security services openly named the alleged US intelligence agency's Moscow station chief Friday in a rare breach of protocol after arresting a purported CIA agent working undercover.

Any decision on an eventual no-fly zone over Syria would have to be made by the United Nations, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted.

A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, a report says.

Cricket Australia is to investigate a Twitter outburst by batsmen David Warner in which he attacked two cricket journalists.

Athletics SA administrator Zola Majavu says a lack of governance was at the centre of the federation's problems.

Police are probing the cause of a blaze that ripped through the Broadacres Shopping Centre in northern Johannesburg, a report says.

A Nigerian court has sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison, over the sale of an adulterated teething drug that killed 84 babies in 2008.