ETHIOPIA

Gunmen killed five European tourists, wounded two and kidnapped two others in Ethiopia's remote Afar region, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday.

Ethiopia blamed the small neighboring country of Eritrea in the killing of five European tourists on Tuesday.

Five foreigners were killed by gunmen in an attack on tourists in the remote Afar region of northern Ethiopia.

Ethiopia's government has seized land from 70,000 indigenous farmers, giving it to commercial developers while leaving the farmers without adequate food or resources, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Khat is increasingly popular in Europe, with the Netherlands as a key transport hub.

Numbering in the tens of thousands, Sidis are generally very poor and generally remain isolated from “mainstream” Indians.

Even when times are tough at home... British people care deeply about the world's most vulnerable children.

Due to Kenya’s soaring unemployment rate, the men are easily fooled into this trap.

The Ethiopian government considers ONLF a terrorist group.

Scientists say that frankincense production is being threatened by environmental conditions.

One in five U.S. women have been sexually assaulted at some point in their life, according to a new CDC survey, a figure the agency reports is significantly higher than they expected.

Efforts to have bamboo technology in Africa.

Bush is scheduled to tour through Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, where he is planning to raise awareness about AIDS, cervical and breast cancers.

The managing editor of one of Ethiopia's few remaining independent Amharic-language newspapers publishing critical analysis of local politics said he left the country last week for fear of arrest, a U.S.-based press freedom group said.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have become the example of the more the merrier cliché, as the couple has plans to adopt a 7th child to add to the Brangelina gang.

The African Union special envoy for Somalia on Wednesday urged countries waging war on al Shabaab to keep an open door to negotiations with militants who are willing to lay down their weapons.

An unidentified fighter jet bombed the outskirts of a Somali rebel-controlled village in the south of the Horn of Africa country on Tuesday, killing at least one civilian, residents and members of the al Shabaab militant group said.

African, Australian and Colombian prospects will play a key role in boosting AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.'s gold output to 5.5 million ounces by 2015, the world's third-largest gold mining company said Tuesday.

Eritrea has complained to the U.N. Security Council about Kenyan allegations that it sent weapons to Islamist rebels in Somalia, calling for an independent investigation to judge the dispute.

Sienna Miller, the blonde beauty known as a fashion icon around the world, is auctioning off her personal wardrobe for charity via eBay through November 17.

Cholera has broken out in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, home to nearly 500,000 Somali refugees, the United Nations said on Tuesday.