THE kidnappers of an Australian photographer and Canadian and Somali journalists in Somalia are demanding a $US2.5 million ($3.08 million) ransom, a traditional chief in contact with the abductors said today
HOPES of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders began to fade today, a day after a massive rockslide flattened homes in a north Cairo shantytown, burying whole families under the rubble
ANGOLA`S ruling party looked set to extend its long grip on power today with an overwhelming victory with more than half the votes counted in the oil-rich country`s chaotic election
ZIMBABWE opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai today called for fresh elections, supervised by international observers, if deadlocked power-sharing talks do not reach a breakthrough
NIGERIAN militants today killed one sailor and kidnapped another when they hijacked a vessel belonging to the Nigerian unit of Italian oil company Agip, a military spokesman said
ANGOLA`S ruling party today predicted a large victory in elections which observers called "free and transparent" despite delays that marred the oil-rich country`s first peacetime poll
AT least 20 people were killed and 23 injured today when dozens of homes in a northern Cairo shantytown were crushed by a massive rockslide, Egyptian officials said
THE Security Council hailed a recent UN-brokered inter-Somali peace deal and restated its readiness to consider deploying UN peacekeepers in the lawless Horn of African country
UN and Congolese troops are having to climb a mountain to reach the site of a humanitarian aid plane crash in a race to see if survivors can be found, the UN peacekeeping mission said today
Guilty ... the leader of the bomb plot group Abdulla Ahmed Ali, seen in a video, was convicted of conspiring to murder hundreds of people, as were two others.
