Four Filipino UN peacekeepers have been abducted by armed men while patrolling in the demilitarised area between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says.
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says Somalia has entered a new era that will herald the end of more than two decades of conflict.
A group of 17 gunmen entered an animal park in the Central African Republic, threatening "one of the biggest massacres of elephants" in the region, conservationist body WWF said Tuesday.
General Motors is recalling nearly 43,000 hybrid vehicles in the United States and around 500 in Canada to fix a defect that could cause a fire in the trunk, the automaker said Monday.
Three young women who vanished about a decade ago in the US state of Ohio have been found and are in hospital in a fair condition, officials have said.
Eight people - four Saudi nationals and four Tanzanians - have been arrested in connection with the bombing of a new Roman Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha on Sunday. [ … ]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to host an international conference in London to help Somalia end more than two decades of conflict.
NASA and private sector experts now agree that a man or woman could be sent on a mission to Mars over the next 20 years, despite huge challenges.
- US billionaire Warren Buffet optimistic on stocks
- ADB targets sustainable growth in Asia
- New Libyan law bans ex-Gadhafi officials from government
- Syria: Attack on military facility was a 'declaration of war' by Israel
- 'In the house': Investment guru Buffett joins Twitter
- Saudi Arabia Sars-like virus 'kills five'
- Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people'
- As U.S. rethinks arming rebels, Syria says chemical weapons also a 'red line'
- WHO concerned at H7N9 bird flu outbreak
- Tanzania's Maasai fight government, game hunters for ancestral lands

