a surge of violence forced the government to scrap a vote on allowing President Compaore to extend his 27-year rule

The announcement came amid intensifying efforts to conclude a definitive pact.

The Bank has marshalled some $500 million to help battle the disease

Newcastle will now face Tottenham in the quarter-finals

CA is going to invest Aus$30m into key strategic projects

Cook has never previously acknowledged his sexual orientation

The defendant was fined $54,500 and will be deported after serving his sentence

WHO says more than 125 million women have been mutilated in 29 countries in Africa and Middle East

Compound closed to all visitors following the shooting of a Jewish hardliner

Hundreds of troops claw through tonnes of mud that buried tin-roofed homes at a tea plantation