Updated: British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been found guilty of insulting religion for allowing her Sudanese students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. She was sentenced to 15 days in…
Legal proceedings got under way in Sudan today against a British teacher charged with insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear after the prophet Muhammad.
Updated: A British teacher arrested in Sudan for allowing her children to name a teddy bear after the prophet Muhammad has been charged with insulting religion…
A British teacher is under arrest and faces lashing and deportation from Sudan, where she is accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad by allowing children at an affluent school to…
A top cop, three other police officers and the former South Africa justice minister have pleaded guilty to poisoning a prominent black activist’s underpants in an attempted murder in 1989…
Throughout Africa, rape reportedly has been used as a weapon of civil war in many countries by militiamen, rebels and government armies. The crime has rarely been punished, even when…
A U.S. millionaire wanted in connection with an alleged stock option backdating scheme has secured another delay in his extradition hearing in Namibia.
Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, founder of Comverse Technology…
Chaos has resulted in Zimbabwe from draconian price controls imposed a month ago by the government of Robert Mugabe under threat of criminal sanctions.
Libya’s High Judicial Council has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences initially imposed on six foreign medics convicted in a controversial case of having intentionally started an HIV epidemic…
Two 16-year-old girls in London told their parents they were taking a short trip across the English Channel to France in late June for a six-day school trip.
The Libyan Supreme Court has rejected the results of an investigation that found unsanitary hospital medical conditions are to blame for the infection of more than 400 children with the…
It has been some 30 years since thousands of banana workers in Central America claim to have been exposed to carcinogenic pesticides on plantations there. Intended to kill worms infesting…
A government-backed militia is systematically using rape as a method of so-called ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a report by a humanitarian group says.
A Nigerian court has refused to dismiss a $7 billion lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. for allegedly testing antibiotic drugs on children in the mid-1990s, resulting in injuries and as many…
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