South Africa

Darren Fresco, a friend of Oscar Pistorius, tells court the athlete fired a shot out of a car sunroof while he was driving, because he was angry at a police officer handling his gun.

Oscar Pistorius vomits and retches in court on hearing graphic details of the injuries that killed Reeva Steenkamp. The judge banned live broadcast and reporting of the pathologist’s testimony.

The judge banned direct reporting of some of the graphic testimony on day six of the Oscar Pistorius trial But Debora Patta argues that the public has a right to hear these details.

Ex-girlfriend Samantha Taylor breaks down in court while giving evidence about Oscar Pistorius, saying he was rarely without a gun and that he had screamed at her and others in anger.

South Africa’s biggest trial since apartheid puts a celebrity sportstar in the dock for the murder of his model girlfriend. But the cream of the country’s legal system are also in the spotlight.

Oscar Pistorius breaks down in court as the first person at the scene describes finding Reeva Steenkamp just before she died, and the athlete crying over her body.

“Please say it was you”: on day three of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, boxer Kevin Lerena says the athlete asked a friend to take the blame for accidentally firing a gun in a restaurant.

It was billed as the “trial of the century”. But procedural mistakes have dogged proceedings in the Pretoria courtroom where Oscar PIstorius is standing trial for murder.

A witness tells court she heard a couple having a fight for an hour before gunshots rang out on the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed, and Oscar Pistorius sheds a tear on hearing about her injuries.

The first witness called to give evidence at Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial describes hearing “petrified screams” on the Valentine’s evening that Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead.

The much-anticipated trial of Oscar Pistorius begins with the Olympic star denying murdering, or arguing with, his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Oscar Pistorius had transcended disability to become a sporting superstar. Now he stands trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. Debora Patta sets the scene for South Africa’s trial of the century.

Ten miners working illegally are rescued from a gold mine in South Africa, but as many as 200 are still feared to be under ground.