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A court in Georgia on Monday rejected an appeal for former president Mikheil Saakashvili to be released from prison on health grounds. Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s president in 2004-13 and led the so-called Rose Revolution protests that drove the previous president out of office, left for Ukraine after the …

South Africa has recorded two confirmed imported cases of cholera, the health department said on Sunday, as it called for vigilance. The cases were of sisters who had in January travelled to Malawi, where a cholera outbreak since last year has claimed more than 1,000 lives as of January, the …

Sir Salman Rushdie says he feels “lucky” and “grateful” in his first interview since being stabbed multiple times during a literary event in New York last summer. The 75-year-old author said while he was physically recovering from the “colossal attack” relatively well, he had been left with mental scars, including …