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KANO (AP):A young man in traditional robes sobbed yesterday as he stood in a pool of blood, surrounded by bullet-scarred walls left behind after a security raid in this northern Nigeria city recently assaulted by a radical Islamist sect.Residents of...

KANO (AP):The aging Muslim spiritual leader of this northern Nigeria city, his eyes heavy with fatigue, leaned into a microphone yesterday and whispered to God his wish for peace after the killing of at least 185 people in an attack by a radical...

ISLAMABAD (AP): A government health official says bad drugs are suspected of killing at least 25 heart patients over the last month in the Pakistani city of Lahore.Javed Akram said yesterday that 100 other heart patients who had taken the same medicine...

BUCHAREST (AP): Romania's prime minister fired his foreign minister yesterday over insulting remarks he made about anti-government protesters, but the opposition said the move would not appease widespread public anger....

US politician Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head last year, has decided to resign her seat in Congress.

CHICAGO (AP) : Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients.

US Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has angrily denied a report that he once wanted an open marriage, strongly criticising the US media at the start of a key debate.

ADDIS ABABA (AP):Gunmen in Ethiopia's arid north attacked a group of European tourists travelling in one of the world's lowest and hottest regions, killing five, wounding two and kidnapping two, an Ethiopian official said yesterday.Ethiopia called the...

TEGUCIGALPA (AP):The United States (US) government's decision to pull out all its Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras for safety reasons is yet another blow to a nation still battered by a coup and recently labelled the world's most deadly...

Wikipedia has joined other websites in going offline for 24 hours today in protest against plans for new US anti-piracy laws.

MALE (AP):The Maldives' military has arrested the chief justice of the country's criminal court after he released an opposition leader who had been detained without a warrant for allegedly defaming the government.Monday's arrest of Judge Abdulla Mohamed...

ADDIS ABABA, (AP):Ethiopia has forcibly moved tens of thousands of semi-nomadic people in the country's west to barren villages and threatened, assaulted and arrested those who resisted, an international rights group said in a report yesterday.The Human...