Gunmen demanding the expulsion of Gaddafi-era officials from Libya's new government lift their siege of two ministries in Tripoli, says a minister.
Egyptian police have arrested three al-Qaeda-linked militants plotting a suicide attack on a Western embassy, the country's interior minister says.
An illegal immigrant in Italy has gone on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passer-by and wounding four others, police say.
Nigeria midfielder John Mikel Obi believes it is "business as usual" at Chelsea as the Blues bid to end the campaign with silverware.
Ahmed Maher, a prominent political activist who leads Egypt's April 6 movement, is freed a day after being arrested in Cairo over an anti-government protest.
Nightlife takes off in Mogadishu after streetlights are installed
The BBC's Tomi Oladipo reports from Maiduguri, Nigeria, where the Islamist group Boko Haram is based and has waged a violent insurgency to create an Islamic state since 2010.
Egyptian security forces detain prominent youth activist Ahmed Maher on suspicion of inciting an anti-government protest in March.
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