Libyan forces say they had captured the last positions held by Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists in the deposed leader’
Three All Black players make up half the list of nominees for 2011’s rugby world player of the year award, making this contest one of the closest yet.
A media watchdog says a grenade attack on a Somali radio station is the fifth time journalists in northern Somalia have been attacked in three months.
Day two of protests in Greece have seen demonstrators march to Parliament against austerity measures required by the IMF and the European Union.
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South Africa has risen in an index ranking countries’ ease of doing business to 35th out of 183 economies, according to a new World Bank report.
In a bid to prevent further flooding, Thailand’s premier says she will order Bangkok to open all of its floodgates, but this poses risks of its own.
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital after African Union-backed Somali troops moved towards al-Shabaab-occupied areas of Mogadishu.
China has pledged to hold people more accountable for their actions after a string of scandals involving everything from food safety to fake goods.
Libya’s acting prime minister Mahmoud Jibril says Muammar Gaddafi is recruiting fighters from other African countries for another possible insurgency.
Cameroon’s supreme court has rejected an opposition bid to annul this month’s presidential election, paving the way for results to be published.