WORLD athletics chiefs have stripped Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Taher Tareq Mubarak of the gold medal he won at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Morocco after ruling he had falsified his age
AN Australian pilot was killed in Nigeria today when the helicopter he was flying crashed at an oil export facility operated by US-based ExxonMobil, the company and industry sources said
AT least 100 people were killed when a goods train jumped the tracks in the Democratic Republic of Congo overnight Thursday, with illegal passengers thought to be among the dead
PIRATES have demanded a $US1.5 million ($1.71 million) ransom for the release of a Danish freighter and its crew held off the coast of Somalia, officials said today
THE UN has suspended a Moroccan peacekeeping unit in Ivory Coast after an internal investigation into allegations of "sexual exploitation and abuse" by soldiers
ZIMBABWE`S second largest city, Bulawayo, warned residents on Wednesday to guard against outbreaks of disease as it was forced to cut their water supply
