A top commander in Somalia’s hard-line Islamist militant group al-Shabaab was killed by his own guards, according to Somalia’s state radio.

Two Britons were killed while vacationing in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, the Foreign Office said early Sunday.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the U.S. and its allies must have patience and “stay with us” if Afghanistan is not ready to assume security control by July, 2011, the date the U.S. says it will start to withdraw.

An Ethiopian-flagged vessel fought off a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden earlier this week, the multi-national anti-piracy task force said Thursday.

Close to one million strollers have been recalled by their manufacturer following reports at least 12 babies or toddlers had their fingers amputated after they were caught in the hinges.

Police have rounded up several prominent leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition movement, sources with the group said.

Kidnappers released three female hostages Friday in the southern Philippines but held on to 54 others in a tense standoff, state-run media reported.

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has arrived in London, days after a court overturned an order banning him for the country. Wilders — who has stoked controversy with his attacks on Islam — said the decision marked “a victory for the freedom of speech.”

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday called for an investigation into the alleged use of fraudulent British passports by some of the suspects in the slaying of a top Hamas official in Dubai last month.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to visit Afghanistan on Wednesday, a government spokesman said.

British police said Wednesday they have arrested a BBC television presenter on suspicion of murder after he told viewers he carried out a so-called mercy killing on a former lover.

Former world heavyweight champion George Foreman has tipped Miguel Cotto “to pull out a decision” in his title bout with Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Visitors shuttle in and out of a state-of-the-art hospital in an Indonesian town once devastated by towering tsunami waves five years ago, while in nearby Thailand backpackers dance to music in bars and tourists lodge in a hotel that had been demolished in the Boxing Day disaster.

The suicide bomber who killed eight people at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last week was a loner since childhood, his mother told CNN on Thursday.

A Pakistani working for the Iranian consulate was shot and killed in the northwestern part of the country Thursday, police said.

A cattle-rustling attack in central Kenya has left 32 people dead, including three women and eight children, the Kenya Red Cross said.