AFP - The brother of Everton football player Joseph Yobo was kidnapped Saturday by armed men in Port Harcourt, the capital of Nigeria's southern oil-producing region, police said Sunday.
Reuters - An apparent suicide bomber killed
more than 10 people and wounded others in an attack on police
guarding Islamists who were marking the anniversary of an army
commando raid on the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital.
AFP - The United States military wanted to test deadly nerve gases on Australian troops in a remote area of far north Queensland in the 1960s but Canberra refused, a report said Sunday.
AP - Thousands of Islamists demanded Sunday that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf be publicly hanged as they observed the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical Red Mosque.
AFP - The foreign minister David Miliband arrived in South Africa Sunday for crisis talks on Zimbabwe, with London holding out against any power-sharing government in Harare which keeps Robert Mugabe in power.
