The first private aviation school in West Africa to train Senior High School graduates into full Commercial Pilots has been established in Ghana. Read the full story

Soldiers backing Alassane Ouattara met stiff resistance from incumbent Laurent Gbagbo’s fighters in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan on Saturday as the two sides fought for control of the West African country. Read the full story

At least 10 rebels were killed by a coalition air strike on Friday, fighters at the scene said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi’s forces over the oil town of Brega. Read the full story

Black-clad, masked youths battled riot police and attacked banks and luxury stores in central London on Saturday, overshadowing a protest by more than a quarter of a million Britons against government spending cuts. Read the full story

Radiation leaked from an unstable Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday, the government said, after an explosion blew the roof off the facility in the wake of a massive earthquake Read the full story

Prince Andrew will have to decide whether he can continue his role as a trade envoy amid a controversy about his links to a convicted pedophile, a British Cabinet minister said Monday. Read the full story

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, on Sunday his apology for a foreign air strike that killed nine children last week was “not enough.” Read the full story

Spain has been branded the most addicted country in Europe, with 3.1 percent of its population aged between 15 and 65 believed to be cocaine users. Read the full story

The Hague – Three Dutch soldiers were taken prisoner at the weekend by armed men during an operation to evacuate civilians from Libya, the Dutch defence ministry said on Thursday. Read the full story

The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Wednesday he would investigate the violence in Libya after the United Nations Security Council referred the case to the Hague-based war crimes tribunal. Read the full story

Two US Air Force servicemen have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying American military personnel at Frankfurt Airport, police say. Read the full story

British fashion designer John Galliano will stand trial for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments in Paris last week, French prosecutors have said. Officials said a trial could take place later this year. Galliano could face up to six months in prison if convicted. Read the full story

Using cannabis as a teenager or young adult increases the risk of psychosis, a report suggests. The study published in the British Medical Journal involved tracking 1,900 people over a period of 10 years. Read the full story

Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti has died after gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Islamabad. He was travelling to work through a residential district when his vehicle was sprayed with bullets, police said. Read the full story

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Jews and Zionists are “trying to push the US into war” and are a cover for Satan, at the group’s annual meeting near Chicago on Tuesday. Read the full story

UK researchers have demonstrated the highest-resolution optical microscope ever – aided by tiny glass beads. The microscope imaged objects down to just 50 billionths of a metre to yield a never-before-seen, direct glimpse into the “nanoscopic” world. Read the full story

His yacht will cost nearly three times what his country spends on health and education for its impoverished citizens each year.
But Teodorin Obiang is the son of a dictator and the chances are that such considerations won’t unduly trouble him. Read the full story