The repeated use of a Bombardier Global Express to transport President Jacob Zuma and his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, suggests that the department has a contract with ExecuJet for the use of the plane, whether for shadowing or as a primary carrier, the Mail &...

Kenya Airways posted a 15.4 percent growth in total passenger numbers in its third quarter, lifted by flights to new routes and greater flight frequencies within Africa, it said.

The Hungarian government has extended the lease of its 14 Gripen fighter jets for another ten years, to 2026.

Fincantieri has launched the first of two stealth patrol vessels for the United Arab Emirates Navy. The vessels were ordered in 2010 as part of the Falaj 2 programme.

Naval leaders from countries bordering the Indian Ocean will be meeting in Cape Town in April this year to discuss matters of common interest. The theme for the third Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) is “Regional Maritime Security Initiatives aimed at reducing...

The captain of the Italian liner Costa Concordia said he was told by managers to take his ship close to shore on the night it ran aground and capsized, but the company denied having any prior knowledge of the manoeuvre.

South Africa is in urgent need of a national cyber-policing strategy and unit to guard against the kind of internet fraud that saw the state Postbank robbed of R42 million over the festive season, a University of Johannesburg professor and computer scientist told...

An Indonesian hacker, who calls himself Direxer, has hacked 103 Kenyan government Web sites in an incident that has exposed a glaring gap in the security of the government's data.

In early December I received a call from Fred Burton, Stratfor's Vice President of Intelligence. He told me he had received information indicating our website had been hacked and our customer credit card and other information had been stolen. The following morning...

Defense contractors Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co topped estimates for fourth quarter profit, but said sales would be flat this year as they cope with cuts in defense spending.

The European Union rather than Iran will lose out under new EU sanctions banning Iranian oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said as lawmakers said they might cut supplies to EU countries ahead of a July 1 deadline.

China's hopes of breaking the market stranglehold of Airbus and Boeing have received a boost from one of the world's largest owners of aircraft, which predicts Beijing will succeed in building its own passenger jets.

Militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed 14 members of a Sunni family in the city of Homs in one of the grizzliest sectarian attacks in the ten-month uprising raging in the Alawite-dominated country, activists and residents said.

Punching, kicking and having bottles smashed on her head are standard daily fare for Sun Yiyao as she pursues her dream of becoming a bodyguard.

The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia lost "a precious hour" in evacuating the giant cruise ship when it ran aground and capsized on January 13, possibly costing dozens of lives, a senior Italian maritime security official said.

The long-awaited Board of Inquiry into allegations of misconduct against National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele will start on February 13. Judge Jake Moloi, who will be chairing the hearing, says they had been busy with “logistical preparations” for the inquiry...

Ethiopia sentenced two Ethiopian journalists to 14 years in jail and an exiled blogger to life imprisonment on Thursday on charges of conspiring with rebel groups against the government, the second case in a month targeting the media.

Gunmen kidnapped a German citizen working on a construction site in Nigeria's second city of Kano the police commissioner said, the latest violence to hit the city plagued by Islamist insurgents for weeks.