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Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Oil prices have now hit the US$100 a barrel mark for the first time.

Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2008 | 10:52 AM

An angry mob torched a church in kenya yesterday, killing 50 persons.

Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2008 | 9:43 AM

Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf, has announced that UK investigators will be helping with the inquiry into the assassination of opposition leader

Published:Monday | December 31, 2007 | 2:17 PM

Many people have been killed across Kenya in violence linked to the disputed presidential election.

Published:Monday | December 31, 2007 | 9:40 AM

Pakistan\'s electoral commission is due to meet to decide whether to put off the elections planned for January 8.

Published:Friday | December 28, 2007 | 11:14 AM

Former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated yesterday in Pakistan, is to be buried in the family’s ancestral grave

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2007 | 6:25 PM

Several world leaders have joined in condemning the death of the former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. In September, Benazir Bhutto told the CNN she knew that extremists were targeting her.

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2007 | 12:53 PM

Miss Bhutto was always aware that her life was under threat.

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2007 | 12:49 PM
Published:Thursday | December 27, 2007 | 9:11 AM

A 17 year-old California teen was mauled to death by a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day

Published:Friday | December 21, 2007 | 7:32 AM

China and India has held the first ever-joint war games between troops from the two countries.

Published:Friday | December 21, 2007 | 7:31 AM

At least 17 bodies have been recovered following three explosions in the centre of the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown.

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2007 | 1:53 PM

Falluja’s city mayor has accused Iraq’s central government of starving the city of resources.

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2007 | 1:53 PM

South Africa’s top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to charge the new leader of the governing party with corruption.

Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2007 | 12:59 PM

The head of Iraq’s Kurdish regional government Massoud Barzani has refused to meet with the US Secretary of State Condeleza Rice.

Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2007 | 12:56 PM

The United Nations is investigating allegations of corrupt contracts linked to its peacekeeping missions.

Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2007 | 7:49 AM

An express train crowded with holiday travellers has derailed in Southern Pakistan.

Published:Tuesday | December 18, 2007 | 8:03 PM

A United States prosecutor has claimed that three covert Venezuelan agents offered $2 million to hush an alleged attempt to pump $800,000 from Venezuela into the Argentinean presidential campaign.

Published:Tuesday | December 18, 2007 | 7:49 PM

Jacob Zuma has defeated South Africa’s President Thabo Mkebi, winning the leadership of the ruling ANC.

Published:Monday | December 17, 2007 | 12:56 PM

The government of Zimbabwe will be amending its tough security and media laws in response to opposition demands.

Published:Monday | December 17, 2007 | 9:22 AM

The newly appointed Prime Minister of Somalia, Nur Hassan Hussein has announced his plans to dissolve the cabinet.

Published:Friday | December 14, 2007 | 6:09 PM

Iraqi oil production is now above the levels seen before the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

Published:Friday | December 14, 2007 | 5:55 PM

Fabio Capello has been confirmed as the new England manager after the details of his contract were finalised with the Football Association today.

Published:Friday | December 14, 2007 | 3:28 PM

Lawmakers in the US state of New Jersey have approved a bill abolishing the death penalty.

Published:Friday | December 14, 2007 | 3:28 PM

Nineteen persons were killed after a bus collided with a train in Northern India this morning.

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