Unidentified gunmen attack the office of a Western aid agency, killing up to five people, police say.

A new election law formally bars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in elections planned in Burma.

Illegal file-sharers should be fined, rather than have their internet connection cut off, says the boss of BT.

Though not publicly acknowledged, many pubescent girls in the West African country of Cameroon are subjected to the practice of breast ironing, which involves massaging a child's growing breasts with an object like a stone, hammer or spatula that has been heated over coals, until the breasts actually disappear.