The partner of murdered gay student Ahmet Yildiz has been forced to flee Turkey in fear of his life. Yildiz, a 26-year-old physics student, was shot leaving a cafe on the Bosphorus strait during the weekend. His body was found in his car. He was...

Cape Town - The Department of Home Affairs has already issued 6 000 exemption certificates to people displaced by the recent “xenophobic attacks”, it said on Monday.

Iran has a lot of fascinating architecture, and many of these unique buildings are overlooked by the rest of the world. Iran has a lot to offer in terms of design, as we pointed out in an earlier article about Iran’s fashion scene

Johannesburg - Mobile operator MTN Group may target Mexico’s America Movil and other operators in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan in its bid to become a global player, analysts said on Monday. On Friday MTN called off talks with India’s...

One year after regaining their freedom, five Bulgarian nurses and a doctor who spent eight years of their lives in a Libyan jail, much of it on death row, are still haunted by their torture and feel abandoned.

Senegal’s main radio stations and newspapers held a “news blackout” day on Monday to push for action against police officers who allegedly beat up two reporters at a football match last month.

In a corner of Istanbul today, the man who might be described as Turkey’s gay poster boy will be buried – a victim, his friends believe, of the country’s deepening friction between an increasingly liberal society and its entrenched...

Zimbabwe will transfer ownership of all foreign-owned firms that support Western sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s government to locals and investors from “friendly” countries, a state newspaper reported on Sunday.

Precedent-setting Cape ruling allows widows to claim part of estate A plucky grandmother’s court victory has brought hope to thousands of South African Muslim women left destitute and desperate when their husbands die

Ethnic minorities, migrant workers, petitioners and social activists are among the key targets of the Chinese security crackdown that has swept through Beijing in recent months. Now, with the Olympics just three weeks away, many of the targeted groups...