A man accused of ordering the murder of his wife during their honeymoon in South Africa is being treated in hospital, his spokesman says.

Fifa chief Sepp Blatter offers sympathy to the Somali football community after promising youngster Abdi Salaan Mohamed Ali was killed in a bomb explosion.

Tens of thousands of foreigners try to flee Libya, after violent clashes between security forces and protesters.

Friends of a US couple aboard a yacht hijacked off Somalia say the pair knew of the risks, but were determined to press on with their Christian mission.

The Venezuelan government has dismissed remarks by Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague suggesting that Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was on his way to Venezuela as "irresponsible".

At least 30 people are killed in a stampede at a stadium in Mali after an imam's sermon at a Muslim festival, officials say.

Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, makes a brief appearance on state TV in the capital, Tripoli, dismissing "malicious rumours" that he has fled the country.

Samples of a marine creature collected during Scott's Antarctic expeditions are yielding data that may prove valuable in projecting climate change.