A young SA couple have had a particularly harrowing experience with the birth of their first child: Baby made her appearance just as the earthquake hit Christchurch.

The Hawks will intensify their investigation against journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika and his co-accused, as they view the NPA's provisional withdrawal of charges as temporary.

New Gauteng police boss Mzwandile Petros has canned the province's rapid response unit, saying he's more of a "flying squad and dog unit man".

A man accused of robbing and killing a woman and her two children has told the court that she and her "boyfriend" asked him to set up a fake robbery so they could claim from insurance.

A 66-year-old retired policeman shot dead his neighbour before killing himself outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo.

An evangelical Florida church has vowed to press ahead with plans to burn the Koran to mark the anniversary of 9/11.

Research In Motion has announced the new BlackBerry Pearl 3G, the smallest BlackBerry smartphone yet.

Deadly protests that paralysed Mozambique's capital were spurred by a SMS that went viral on Maputo's cellphones, signalling the power of new technology in the hands of the poor.

Movies like Terminator and I, Robot have fuelled our imaginations with the improved quality of life - or sweeping planetary destruction - that might come of artificial intelligence.

For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fibre-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest world leader to fall victim to "Google bombing", with his Facebook page now associated with the French term for "asshole" on the search engine.