US officer found hanged in Egypt cell
A retired American army officer has been found hanged in an Egyptian prison cell, six weeks after being arrested for breaking the national curfew.
A retired American army officer has been found hanged in an Egyptian prison cell, six weeks after being arrested for breaking the national curfew.
A retired American army officer has been found hanged in an Egyptian prison cell, six weeks after being arrested for breaking the national curfew.
Nine long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' which have not been seen since the 1960s have been recovered after they were tracked down to a store room in Nigeria, gathering dust.
Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped by gunmen from a hotel in Tripoli where he resides, officials said.
Egypt's deposed president, Mohammed Morsi, is to go on trial next month accused of inciting the killing of protesters, a mirror image of the case against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
Two Canadians freed at the weekend after being held in Egypt for more than six weeks without charge are still barred from flying home, their lawyer said on Monday.
Suspected Islamist militants hit the northern Malian city of Gao with artillery fire on Monday, in the first attack on the insurgents' former stronghold in months, city residents, military and local government officials said.
Gunmen killed five Egyptian soldiers near the Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Monday, security sources said, in a series of attacks that highlight growing insecurity since the army ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
The US special forces unit that killed Osama bin Laden failed during a pre-dawn Somalia mission to capture a "high value target" suspected of links to Kenya's Westgate slaughter.
Kenya's military spokesman has confirmed the names of the four attackers implicated in the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, which killed more than 60 people last month.
At least 94 people died and up to 250 were missing after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday.
Fifteen people were killed when an Embraer passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off just outside Lagos airport's domestic terminal on Thursday, Nigerian authorities said.
A high school student was killed when opponents and supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi clashed in the city of Suez on Wednesday night, medical and security sources said.
Russia's embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli came under attack today and gunmen tried to enter the compound, a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
OLYMPIC and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has enlisted the help of US forensics experts as he prepares for a murder trial which is due to start in March next year, his spokeswoman said today.
PICKED clean and smashed up, the Fone Xpress mobile phone shop in Nairobi's Westgate mall is one of dozens of stores traders have returned to find ransacked – but businessmen say the terrorists are not to blame.
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