A high-ranking North Korean diplomat has defected to South Korea, Seoul has confirmed. The defector, Ri Il Kyu, defected in Cuba in November last year.

Donald Trump named Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate. Vance could help appeal to working-class voters in critical Midwest battleground states. Vance,

Enterprising Chinese retailers were quick off the mark after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, with the first batch of T-shirts bearing an image of

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Rubik’s cube, created by Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik in 1974.  Millions of cubes were sold worldwide until

The FBI named Thomas Matthew Crooks as the person who shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Neighbours were shocked at how

The rot at the Master’s Office is “worse than anyone thought”, says advocate Doctor Mashabane, the director-general of the justice department. In an exclusive interview

A car bomb was detonated on Sunday in Mogadishu in Somalia, killing nine people and injuring at least 20.  The bomb went off outside a

The “extraordinary images of a defiant Donald Trump pumping his fist in the air, with blood on his face, being rushed off the stage by

The City of Johannesburg forensic investigator who was murdered last week was on the verge of exposing a “guns for hire” syndicate within the Johannesburg

Renowned sex therapist and talk show host Dr Ruth Westheimer, who spoke openly about sex and intimate subjects, died on Friday aged 96. Her death