South Africa's high court is to decide whether to uphold a ban on ANC youth league leader Julius Malema singing a song, which has been ruled "hate speech".

Global stock markets in retreat as fresh concerns over a default by Greece sends the euro to a 10-year-low against the yen.

Andy Whitfield, star of US TV drama, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, dies at the age of 39.

Votes are being counted in Guatemala's presidential election, with retired General Otto Perez Molina taking an early lead in a poll dominated by security concerns.

The only member of a Russian ice hockey team to survive a plane crash last week, Alexander Galimov, dies of his severe injuries.

An Australian Navy cadet who filmed himself with a mobile phone raping a female colleague as she slept wanted to be accepted by his peers, a court hears.

The Mexican Navy rescues seven oil workers three days after they abandoned their vessel in a life raft in the Gulf of Mexico during a tropical storm but two other workers died and a third is missing.

Kenyan human rights activist Al-Amin Kimathi is one of five suspects in the 2010 Kampala World Cup bombing freed by a Ugandan court.