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Prime Minister David Cameron avoided any direct response to questions of his tenure amid further resignations over the hacking scandal.

The appearance of key figures involved in the hacking scandal at parliamentary committee meetings on Tuesday could delay MP's summer recess.

South African President Jacob Zuma will visit anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela in the Eastern Cape on Monday to wish him happy birthday, officials have confirmed.

Tensions between the world's two giants are mounting after China's People's Daily newspaper launched an attack on U.S. President Barack Obama as it described his weekend meeting with the Dalai Lama as an "unscrupulous trick of pragmatism," adding that the move has undermined the U.S.'s status as a major world power.

Millions of South Africans are celebrating the 93rd birthday of the former president Nelson Mandela.Mandela Day, was inaugurated in 2009 on Nelson Mandela's birthday, 18 July, and declared an international day by the United Nations in November 2009. Mandela Day was inspired by a call made by this world icon for the next generation to take on the burden of leadership in addressing the world's social injustices. Mandela turns 93 years of age on 18 July.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has pledged his support to South Sudan, which gains its independence from the north on Saturday.

On July 5 the South African media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), unequivocally dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert on 5fm that called for the boycott of Israel and compared Israel to Apartheid South Africa.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Colonel Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and his intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi for crimes against humanity. The court says there is evidences he ordered attacks on civilians during the recent uprising, in which more than 20,000 Libyans are thought to have died so far.

A spokesman says the opposition insists that the strongman cannot be involved in any future government, but it may allow him to live out his last years in Libya at an isolated location.

First Lady Michelle Obama urged young Africans on Wednesday to fight for women's rights and battle the stigma of AIDS while using her husband's "yes, we can" campaign slogan to try and motivate youth across the continent.

Four months into the conflict and while the battle for Libya is still going strong, various conspiracy theories have by now emerged. After Gaddafi's own theory of Al-Qaeda putting drugs in the people's Nescafe flopped, the idea that Libya could in fact be the theatre for a new cold war attracted quite a lot of attention.

Ed Miliband and what passes for his leadership of the Labour Party have come under increasing scrutiny in the last few days. This scrutiny has lead to an increase in commentators on both the left and the right buying into a strange delusion, that David Miliband would have been a great leader of the current opposition.

As the fight to force Gaddafi out of power continues, Western and Arab governments have pledged more than £800m to support Libya's rebel administration as they seek to keep the pressure on Muammar Gaddafi's regime and insist they want to start preparing for a transitional phase.

With strict sanctions imposed against the country, most of his assets frozen and many of his top government officials defecting, how does Gaddafi still manage to hang on to power?

England will take a substantial step towards qualifying for the Euro 2012 finals should they beat Switzerland at Wembley on Saturday

ust a few days after the 2011 G8 summit in Deauville, Oxfam warns that the prices of staple foods will more than double in 20 years unless world leaders take action to reform the global food system.According to the organisation's forecast, by 2030, the average cost of key crops will increase by between 120% and 180% and insists that half of that increase will be caused by climate change.In its newly published report, "Growing a better future", the charity calls on world leaders ...

Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has announced his retirement from football at the age of 36, with immediate effect.

South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Tripoli yesterday in an attempt to broker a cease fire between the Libyan rebels and their former leader Col. Muammar Gadaffi. While the first reports that emerged suggested that Gaddafi had agreed to the African Union proposal, conflicting information has since dispelled hopes that a ceasefire might be imminent. With the Nato secretary-general insisting that the Libyan leader's "reign of terror" is coming to an end, it seems that a diplom...

The Gaddafi saga is today continuing with the Libyan colonel still making headlines throughout the world. More interesting than a Hollywood star, the Kings of Kings is still mesmerizing us and his unknown whereabouts are turning him into a serious urban legend. The latest story sees the King of Kings slowly turning into a schizophrenic/paranoiac erratic mess.

Andrew Strauss has rubbished talk of an "Ashes hangover" as England look to build on their winter success this summer, starting against Sri Lanka in Cardiff today.

Following the resignation of its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahnafter his arrest for sexual assault last week in New York, the International Monetary Fund is now without a leader.In the next one to two month the international financial organisation has to appoint Strauss-Kahn replacement. The race is on to find a replacement and while Europe has claimed the need for a European to be appointed, due to the difficult financial crisis affecting many of its member states, China, Russi...

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has today announced he is seeking the arrest of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and two others for crimes against humanity.

Shares in SABMiller were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the brewer reported a rise in revenue and lager volumes in the third quarter ended 31 December.

It's not often that an article in the Guardian interests me, but yesterday between the regular complaints about the cuts and the stories of the plight of downtrodden workers in far away places, there was a real gem of a piece about the Chinese dissident and now Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Shares in SABMiller were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the brewer, which owns brands such as Grolsch, reported a rise in revenue and pre-tax profits in the half year ended 30 September.

Shares in BP were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the energy giant said it would be selling off fuels marketing businesses in five southern African countries.

Shares in HSBC were down on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the bank said it would not be making a move to take over South African bank Nedbank Group Limited.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as investors continued to fret about the prospects of economic recovery.

Shares in Eurasian Natural Resources were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the miner reported a rise in pre-tax profit for the first half of 2010.