The highest court in Egypt overturns a decree by President Mohammed Mursi in which he recalled parliament in defiance of the ruling military council.
The United Nations and DRC government troops are sending reinforcements to Goma, after rebel forces advance towards the Congolese city.
Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga is jailed for 14 years for recruiting and using child soldiers, in the first sentence from the International Criminal Court.
Human rights campaigners working for Mau Mau veterans complain that the Kenyan government is refusing to finance a case against the UK.
Following the purchase of letters between Mahatma Gandhi and his friend Hermann Kallenbach by the Indian government, we take a look around the South African house the two men shared between 1908 and 1910.
Islamist fighters destroy two tombs at the Malian city of Timbuktu's famous Djingareyber mosque, residents say.
Nigeria's Supreme Court orders that the world's biggest aluminium producer, Rusal, be stripped of its ownership of a former state-owned aluminium processing plant.
Mohamed Aboutrika is one of the three over-age players in Egypt's Olympic squad.
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo expresses alarm as rebels advance towards the country's eastern provincial capital of Goma.
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