Egypt's Mubarak gets 3 years for graft
A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
Man bites python to save himself
2009-04-16 10:16A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday.
French nets pirates, US to boost fight
2009-04-16 08:28The French navy detained 11 Somali pirates trying to seize a Liberian-flagged merchant ship, and Washington said on Wednesday it would send an envoy to a conference on Somalia next week to boost the anti-piracy fight.
Boat blast kills 5 Chinese workers in Nigeria
2009-04-15 08:43An official with the Chinese Consulate-General in Lagos confirmed that five Chinese crew members were killed in a fishing boat explosion in Nigeria Monday night
Somali pirates hijack 4 more ships
2009-04-14 20:42Somali pirates went on a hijacking spree, brazenly capturing four more ships and taking over 60 crew members hostage in the Gulf of Aden.Full Coverage
Pirates seen as not interested in raising violence
2009-04-14 09:12US and French naval attacks on Somali pirates raised fears Monday for the safety of scores of foreign sailors still held hostage and sparked a debate on safeguarding shipping. The most likely outcome, though, is business as usual for the bandits.
Mummies found in ancient Egypt burial chamber
2009-04-13 10:21Archaeologists working in an Egyptian oasis have found a necropolis containing dozens of brightly painted mummies dating back as far as 4,000 years, the country's antiquities chief said on Sunday.
Somali pirates vow retaliation after captain freed
2009-04-13 09:51Somali pirates on Monday vowed to retaliate for the deaths of three colleagues who were shot dead by US Navy snipers hours before in a daring nighttime assault that freed a 53-year-old American captain.
US captain freed, snipers kill 3 pirates
2009-04-13 09:31Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain in a surprise nighttime assault.
Ship with 16 hijacked in Gulf of Aden
2009-04-12 10:15Somali pirates have seized a tugboat in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden in the latest attacks in the north of the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia.
US hostage fails in escape bid from Somali pirates
2009-04-11 09:25An American skipper held hostage by pirates tried to swim to freedom Friday but was recaptured seconds later when the bandits opened fire. Amphibious Assault Ship Ready
Pirates vow to fight if attacked by US
2009-04-10 20:32Somali pirates holding an American hostage on a drifting lifeboat vowed on Friday to fight any attack by US naval forces stalking them at high sea.
US warship watches Somali pirates with US hostage
2009-04-10 09:34Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a US destroyer with more warships on the way in a US show of force.
