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An investigation is under way following the discovery of a man's body in the undercarriage of a plane after it arrived from Africa, police have said.

A severely bruised young girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back Thursday to Paris, where she was embraced gently by her father, who tried to lift her spirits with a joke.

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe has announced that Harare has accepted a credit line of US$950 million from China.

Elections in Guinea-Bissau to replace assassinated President Joao Bernardo Vieira are to go to a second round, the electoral commissioner says.

The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high speed, but was missing for six hours before an emergency was declared.

Government has called on public service doctors to end their strike and return to work immediately, saying their dispute is doing "considerable harm" to the sector.

ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has called on South Africa's mines to be nationalised, according to an article in the Sowetan on Thursday.

By Julian Guyer London - The International Rugby Board has vowed to "eradicate" the "particularly heinous" act of eye-gouging. Wednesday's announcement by the global governing body comes following the controversy caused by Springbok back-row Schalk Burger's eye-gouge on British and Irish Lions wing Luke Fitzgerald in the first minute of...

A senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party will stand trial in Zimbabwe in October on terrorism charges, his lawyer said Wednesday.