The ex-head of communications for South Africa's ruling ANC party resigns to join a breakaway movement.

Andy Murray wins a late night epic on fourth round day after Roger Federer and the Williams sisters win but Jelena Jankovic goes out.

It's 2008 and sex seems to be everywhere. So who holds the line between permissiveness and obscenity? What is obscene these days? And how do those people entrusted to make these calls cope with the harrowing work?

Close aides of Thabo Mbeki bid for an influential South African newspaper that has criticised the government.

Thousands flock to Parliament Square to see former South African President Nelson Mandela unveil his own statue.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomes Nelson Mandela to Downing Street, ahead of the unveiling of his statue.

Nelson Mandela will see a statue unveiled in his honour in central London, after a row over its location.

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West Indies are effectively out of the World Cup after losing by 67 runs to South Africa in Grenada.

Italy's state broadcaster Rai pulls the plug on reality TV shows and the "degrading behaviour" of their contestants.

South Africa's ruling ANC is criticised for a scheme charging business leaders to meet government officials.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress has sacked its chief whip after finding him guilty of sexual harassment.

England are 266-3 at stumps on day one of the second Test in Adelaide.

The renaming of Johannesburg airport is not without controversy, reports the BBC's Peter Biles.

Louis Armstrong has one - as does John Lennon. Bob Hope was jealous of John Wayne because he had one. Now the late soccer star George Best will get one - an airport named after him.

Freedom of speech has always balanced rights with responsibilities, says Brian Walden.

The hope and optimism about the future that will forever be associated with John F Kennedy live on, says historian David Cannadine in his weekly column.

A controversial redevelopment of an area of Spitalfields, the culmination of a 17-year project, opens in east London.

Ashes celebrations suggest cricket is back in the big time

South Africa's ruling ANC is split on whether President Mbeki can remain party leader after he steps down as national president.