Ivory Coast militia leader Ibrahim Coulibaly has been killed by forces of new president Alassane Ouattara during a raid to dislodge his armed group from an Abidjan district. The Republican Forces (FRCI) gunned down Coulibaly after he opened fire from his hide-out in a house, defence ministry spokesman Leon Alla Kouakou said. “[Coulibaly] took a [...]

Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, Afghan officials say. The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail break and that all of those who escaped were members of the militant Islamist organisation. “A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from [...]

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Russian or Soviet cosmonauts never had sex in space in the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos. And that’s official, according to a Russian expert. As for Americans, well, you’d better ask them. “There’s no official or unofficial evidence that there were instances of sexual intercourse or the carrying out of sexual experiments [...]

The Obama administration, under criticism for its treatment of the US soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website, is transferring the detainee to a Kansas jail. Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s general counsel, said Bradley Manning was being moved from a Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, to a detention facility at [...]

Incumbent Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has taken a commanding lead in the nation’s election, receiving almost twice as many votes as his main rival. International observers say the poll could be Nigeria’s first credible vote in decades. Results have shown Mr Jonathan is well in front of his rival, ex-military chief Muhammadu Buhari. If current [...]

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Shares in one of America’s largest companies General Electric, fell sharply overnight after what turned out to be a fake press release, saying the company would repay billions of dollars in outstanding taxes. The bogus release was the work of an activist group that wanted to draw attention to GE’s use of tax avoidance measures [...]