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Access to the internet within Syria has been shut off again in an attempt to disrupt activists' movements.

N'Djamena says gang including opposition MP Saleh Makki arrested for plotting to destabilise Chad.

French president Francois Hollande says attack targets all countries fighting terrorism.

Pakistan-origin victims were heading to Gaza Strip in convoy when gang-raped in Benghazi.

Web users defy homosexuality bans to to find online gay pornography.

Tea Party Fire Ants accuse Fox News of being to complacent towards US President Barack Obama

Al-Dam, Libyan dictator's top aide, arrested in Egypt after firing on security forces.

RWE is looking to offload its oil and gas exploration unit as it plans more investment in renewable energy.

As French troops and their allies start their tenth week fighting against Muslim militants and terrorists in Northern Mali, opinion in one of the world's poorer countries remains firmly in favour of the intervention by France, the old colonial power, in the country's struggle against the extremists which so nearly brought down the country's government. If the fundamentalists had reached Bamako, the capital, it is more than likely that the victorious Islamists would have imposed the str...

Great Britain has a long and glorious tradition of arming and bankrolling groups and regimes to fight the good fight on our behalf.

Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar suing UK government for 2004 abduction and torture.

Austerity policies and cuts in military expenditure contribute to lower arms sales on the back of global economic crisis .

Prospective buyers post online ads offering £10,000 for rock fragments.

Obama vows to revive American economy and overhaul gun control legislation during his annual speech.

Court orders closure of file-sharing sites that failed to block access to film that insulted the prophet.

Coalition government wanted war at all costs and could not even be bothered with a dodgy dossier, says Lucy P.

Mali's 20,000 invaluable manuscripts moved before rebels torched the Ahmed Baba institute

Sir Alex Ferguson is set to launch a last ditch attempt to lure Victor Wanyama to Old Trafford by offering Celtic £8million for the midfielder.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a terrorist group which is financed through its criminal activities of smuggling, drug trafficking and kidnapping for ransom, carried out two separate bombings on 11 April 2007 in the Algerian capital, Algiers. Active members vary between 300 and 800 for this Salafist group which formally changed its name from Group for Call (that is Preaching) and Combat (GSPC in its French form) only in January 2007. Itself a splinter organisation with a history of lea...

Comments fuel speculation of imminent switch to Manchester United.

Foreign Office warns of kidnapping threat from criminals and terrorists in breakaway Somaliland region

Britain, Germany and Netherlands urge nationals to get out of danger city immediately.

British foreign office alerts over terrorism threat in Libya after France's military intervention in Mali

Islamic Movement for Azawad says it seeks a negotiated solution to Mali conflict

Outgoing secretary of state takes reponsibility for attack that killed four Americans including ambassador Chris Stevens.

Clinton tells Congress of commitment to improving security at US diplomatic missions worldwide.

Executions, daring escapes and hiding under beds among harrowing stories to emerge from hostage crisis.

Foreign Office rebuts mounting calls for wider international response to Mali crisis.

Britain, United States and Germany reluctant to commit as Mali faces existential threat

Algerian military source says terrorists who attacked In Amenas gas complex trained over Libyan border.