Grade R teacher from Mpumalanga forced girl to eat her own waste in front of other children.
US President Barack Obama addresses Americans from ornate East Room of White House over Syria military action.
US president postpones Congress vote on Syria military action but remains sceptical about Assad's pledge.
Pontiff dispenses with motorcade and security guards for trip to Jesuit-run Astalli Centre.
Kazakhstan plotter planned to blow up Putin motorcade in Moscow during official visit of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Archaeologists find evidence of ancient Mexican civilisation's brutality towards enemies.
David Cameron to table Security Council resolution on timetable to collect Assad's chemical weapons.
Federal judge says Uruguayan will be extradited from Argentina following rescue from Andes.
Beijing to consider damaging online comments and blogs as defamatory if widely viewed or reposted.
Foreign minister Walid al-Moallem agrees to put stockpiles under international control to avoid 'US aggression'.
Three members of same North Yorkshire family shot while on holiday in fishing village.
Enraged two-tonne Tanya blunders into game of petanque and kills elderly player.
Survey of 10,000 men in Papua New Guinea, China, Cambodia and Sri Lanka reveal most rapists regard act as sexual entitlement.
Russia also working on scheme to avoid US-led military strike against Bashar al-Assad regime
Parents starved and froze their adopted Ethiopian-born daughter after reading 'To Train Up a Child'.
Dozens killed after bus falls off ravine north-west of Guatemala City.
Testicle size involved with nurturing-related brain activity.
Damascus welcomes Moscow proposal to destroy chemical stockpiles to avoid US strike.
Rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah Ocalan agreed historic ceasefire.
Pirated copy downloaded 100,000 times within hours of leaked episode being posted online.
Diary shows Kennedy kept a scorecard of his affairs but battled with guilt.
Ancient Christian town north of Damascus threatened by intense fighting between rebels and government forces
Evidence suggests repeated head injuries, not alcoholism, may have caused Beat Generation writer's death.
Belgian hostage held with Italian war reporter Domenico Quirico by Syrian rebels said captors denied Assad involvement
Work completed in 1888 had been consigned to attic because collector thought it was a fake.
Vatican threatens priest with excommunication for questioning Church doctrine.
Russian opposition leader demands recount after election defeat to Kremlin-backed candidate Sergei Sobyanin.
Raul Circunegui wandered South American mountain range for four months after his motorbike broke down.
Scientists in 'uncharted territory' after finding genetic link to childhood leukaemia for first time.
Political icon tells PM Nawaz Sharif that Pakistan must invoke spirit of South Africa to curb terror crisis.