Sports Calendar

Passion that separates Africa from the West

The case of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga highlights how the issue of homosexuality has divided cultures

President Zuma prepares to wed fifth wife

Tobeka Madiba already has two children with the South African leader, who is rumoured to be lining up a sixth wife

Somali pirates hijack second British-flagged ship

Ship carrying consignment of South Korean cars seized deep in Indian Ocean days after hijacking of chemical container

One boy’s journey to jihad

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab managed to slip through the net and launch a suicide mission that nearly brought carnage to America

Cartoonist intruder: 'links to Islamic terrorists'

Somali who broke into Muhammad artist Kurt Westergaard's home connected to al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda says Danish intelligence

Rural Africa needs light before enlightenment

Solar Aid, one of The Times Christmas charities, is working to provide power to communities far from the electricity grid

'I promise hundreds of fighters'

Leader of Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked insurgency declares that he will send fighters to join Yemen's Islamist campaign

‘You’re foreign, go to Hell’

Behind the hospitality in Sanaa, Yemenis have a mistrust of outsiders, fed by the West’s military ventures in the Arab world

Air passenger with chemicals held last month

Somalia prevented an attack a month before Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to set off explosives on a flight to Detroit

Global warming blamed for rise in malaria

A 2C increase in the temperatures around Mount Kenya has allowed the disease to spread, British team finds

British missionary released in Gambia

Fiona Fulton is freed after serving a year's hard labour for criticising the Government but her husband remains in jail

US 'stopped installation of full body scanners'

Dutch government claimed it had been trying to install machines for US flights since 2008 but had been blocked

Pirates hijack British tanker in ‘safety’ zone

Tanker with 26 crew seized by same pirates that have held the British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler since late October

Plane bomber 'carried potent device'

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had twice as much explosive in his underwear than the shoe bomber Richard Reid

Abdulmutallab known as the 'Imam' to classmates

Classmates remember the son of one of Africa’s richest families as a pious youth that had high religious principles

Security lapses were a disaster waiting to happen

Concerns about lax security at Lagos airport were highlighted by the Nigerian media, which warned of worse to come

Comic strip promises young Kenyans fresh outlook

Shujaaz has been created by young Kenyans for young Kenyans to tackle issues that are usually ignored