Khanyisile Ngcobo Johannesburg
AFP via Getty Images South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for helping to secure the return of 17 South Africans allegedly tricked into joining the Russia-Ukraine war.
Last November, the South African government said it had received distress calls from the group of men who had joined mercenary forces in the conflict.
The men believed they were going to Russia for bodyguard
Reuters The suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie appears to have been at her front door prior to the night she went missing, a law enforcement source has told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
The 84-year-old mother of NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie was reported missing on 1 February, having disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, the night before. Police believe she was abducted.
The FBI previously released doorbell camera footage showing a masked person carrying a backpack, who it said was
Reuters Hong Kong has formally complained to the government of Panama after it took control of two ports on the Panama Canal. It accused the Panamanian authorities of taking them over by force.
The ports had been run by a Hong Kong-based company, CK Hutchison, for more than two decades.
Last month, Panama's Supreme Court annulled the contracts which allowed the firm to operate the container ports, saying they were "unconstitutional".
The ruling followed claims by US President Donald Trump that China was operating the canal
Thomas Naadi , BBC Africa, Accra and
Wycliffe Muia
Getty Images Ghana's government has removed the name of a coup leader, who helped overthrow founding father Kwame Nkrumah exactly 60 years ago, from the country's main airport.
Kotoka International Airport will now be known as Accra International Airport, its original name. But the move has not been without controversy.
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka
Getty Images Celebrity doctor Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as a CBS News contributor after exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein were among documents published by the US Department of Justice.
Attia appears to have exchanged a number of emails with the convicted sex offender, including a crass comment about women's bodies.
Attia's spokesman said in a statement his role at CBS News "was newly established and had not yet meaningfully begun" and he would be step back to avoid becoming "a distraction from the
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter
Getty Images Robert Carradine, the US actor best known for roles in Revenge of the Nerds and Lizzie McGuire, has died aged 71.
In a statement, his family said the actor took his own life after living with bipolar disorder for nearly two decades.
The Carradine family said they wanted to announce his cause of death to raise awareness of "the stigma that attaches to mental illness".
Lizzie McGuire star to her former on-screen father, writing on Instagram: "This one hurts.
Jeremy Bowen International Editor, Kyiv
Ben Steele ,
Mike Radford and
George Wright
Warning: This story contains details of extreme violence and reference to suicide.
Four Russian soldiers have exposed the horror and brutality of conditions on their side of the front lines in Ukraine, with two men telling the BBC they saw soldiers being executed on the spot for refusing orders.
One man told a documentary team he saw a soldier executed on the order of his commander, who
