The Ugandan army says the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony is being supported and supplied by the Sudanese government.

Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest men, is commissioning a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic.

At least five people are killed in a bomb attack on a police convoy in north-eastern Nigeria, police say, a day after churches were targeted.

Troops loyal to Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court, take control of two towns near Goma in eastern DR Congo after fierce fighting.

West African regional bloc Ecowas imposes targeted sanctions on Guinea-Bissau's military junta after talks to restore civilian rule break down.

Three sailors die and a fourth is missing during a California yacht race, only weeks after another fatal accident off the same coast.

Syria's UN observer mission head warns that even 1,000 observers could not stop the violence in the country, so peace must be a joint effort.

Scientists in Peru are told told to investigate the mysterious deaths of hundreds of pelicans on the coast in the north of the country.