International

GUNMEN have killed at least 16 people in the Nigerian city of Kano, while a further five people have been shot dead at a church worship service in the north east in Maiduguri.

A South African security trainer has been killed in Somalia by unknown gunmen during a government-approved mission against pirates, the government of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland said.

AL QAEDA’S North African branch has offered to free a British hostage in return for the release of radical preacher Abu Qatada but warned London against handing him over to his native Jordan, a statement on an Islamist website said on Monday.

EGYPT’S ruling military council has promised to reshuffle the cabinet, hours after the Muslim Brotherhood-led parliament suspended sessions to protest the panel’s failure to heed repeated calls for the government’s dismissal.

FOURTEEN Taliban militants were killed and 16 others detained during military operations conducted by Afghan forces and NATO-led coalition troops within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Monday morning.

TENS of thousands of people have demonstrated across Spain against new austerity measures targeting education and health care spending.

RESEARCHERS in east China’s Zhejiang Province are working on a project that aims to convert kitchen waste into biofuel.

A recent poll carried out by an Israeli newspaper has revealed that most Israelis are supportive of a strike on Iran if it is led by the United States.