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A wounded man is helped outside a Mogadishu hotel where a suicide bomber detonated explosives during a college-graduation ceremony. Local Somali leaders called yesterday's suicide bombing that killed three cabinet ministers in Somalia's capital disastrous.

Swedish Bar Association and the International Bar Association for "an outstanding contribution to promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms." (AFP)  

The former 'Friends' are now 'Cougar Town'ies December 3rd, 2009 Back in October we learned from Entertainment Weekly that Lisa Kudrow , former star of Friends , would be joining her Friends compatriot Courteney Cox-Arquette on her new show Cougar...

The main opposition candidate has already said he will not accept the results, saying the poll was rigged. Placido Mico Abogo gained just 3.6% of the vote in the oil-rich state...Equatorial Guinea's vast earnings from oil and gas should give...

Imagine what Bafana Bafana players will do with R220-million after winning the 2010 Fifa World Cup? That’s what they stand to pocket after football's governing body, Fifa, announced it has increased the prize money for the 2010 showpiece by 61%....

South Africans are choosing to buy tickets for teams such as Brazil and England over the poor performing Bafana, World Cup organizing committee chief executive Danny Jordaan said on Thursday.     "You cannot believe that Brazil from a ticketing point of...

The United States, Britain and other major world political players have announced that they are planning to send tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban who have links with al Qaida, a terrorist group.     The announcement...

A military aide has tried to assassinate Guinea's ruler, a government official said, wounding the leader who seized power in a coup nearly a year ago and has come under international criticism after a military-led massacre...Moussa “Dadis” Camara was shot...

She refused to stop despite being signalled to do so," the minister said. He said soldiers at the roadblock opened fire on the vehicle, wounding the diplomat, whose identity was not immediately released. "She was wounded but is not in...

The deal with a Singapore company is one of the biggest direct foreign investment (FDI) agreements signed so far. David Wignall, Managing Director of David Wignall Associates of Singapore and Commodore M Farooque BN, Chairman of Mongla Port Authority signed...