The government of Botswana will evict hundreds of Bushmen from their land to make way for a wildlife park, a rights group claims.

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes, a devastating statistic most felt by the parents left searching.

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist behind suicide bombings in Niger, was the mastermind of the devastating attack on an Algerian gas plant.

Clashes broke out between youths and police in the Guinean capital, a day after protests left up to six people dead.

Guatemala extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million.

A Tunisian woman who gained notoriety for posting online topless pictures of herself as a protest faces six months in prison for carrying a dangerous object.

Close allies of Toronto Mayor Rob's Ford will release a letter that urges the mayor to address a purported video that apparently shows him smoking crack cocaine.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed to pursue a policy of resistance against the West if elected.

Syrian troops have captured much of the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, squeezing opposition fighters into the north of the strategic town.

Britain's intelligence services came under pressure to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death slip through their net.