June 16, 2013 As Nelson Mandela's health declines, his country struggles to realise his dreams, writes Nastasya Tay in Johannesburg.

June 15, 2013 As far as denials of burning hot stories go, the first one to come out of Tony Blair's office was not that prudent.

June 15, 2013 Richard Branson is the entrepreneurial action man with a plan to put ordinary, albeit wealthy, people into space. Jane Cadzow spends some time in his orbit.

June 15, 2013 For Eritreans, fleeing one of the world's harshest dictatorships is not impossible. Evading capture by human traffickers and brutal Bedouin gangs is the hard part. By Ruth Pollard.

June 15, 2013 Archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology have discovered a lost mediaeval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1200 years ago.

June 15, 2013 Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, had been living as a married couple until a few weeks ago.

June 15, 2013 As America marks the six-month anniversary of the massacre of 20 children and six adults in the hamlet of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, gun control advocates have noted that another milestone has been reached - more Americans have died by the gun since then than the total number of US troops killed in Iraq.

June 15, 2013 There was as much shrugging as shock over Washington's latest leak.

June 15, 2013 Washington: US lawmakers have set out to puncture the claimed altruism of the man whose disclosure of top-secret surveillance programs have caused a storm in Washington, portraying him as a Beijing partisan in continuing US-China cyber wars.

June 15, 2013 A mist-covered mountain in Cambodia gives up its treasure, writes Lindsay Murdoch.