Nine soldiers from South Africa were killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fighting an advance by rebels aligned with Rwanda.

(Reuters) -Nine South African soldiers have been killed in eastern Congo's conflict zone, the South African defence department said on Saturday, as Congolese troops and peacekeepers battled to stop an advance by Rwanda-backed rebels on the city of Goma.

Two U.N. peacekeepers from South Africa were killed in fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo, a United Nations official said Saturday. The South African peacekeepers were killed Friday, the U.N. official told The Associated Press,

The South Carolina athletic department announced Sunday that the women's basketball team's arena DJ has been suspended for one game for the choice of music played at the end of the Gamecocks' win over LSU on Friday.

The University of South Carolina suspended a DJ who played a song by LSU star Flau'jae Johnson's late father after the team's win over the Tigers on Friday night.

The South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team addressed their DJ's "disrespectful" song choice toward Flau'jae Johnson during Friday's game.

By Laila Bassam and Alexander Cornwell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed 22 people in south Lebanon on Sunday as a deadline for their withdrawal passed and thousands of people tried to return to their homes in defiance of Israeli military orders,

Israeli forces killed 22 people and wounded 124 others Sunday when displaced residents of southern Lebanon defied Israel's decision not to withdraw from border villages and tried to return home.

Three people were killed and 31 others injured by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese government said, as residents of villages near the border defied orders by Israel’s military not to return to their homes.