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UK diplomat gets death threat in Zimbabwe paper

<i>John Drinnan:</i> Maharey on the counter-offensive

Great Pyramid may have been built inside out

Egypt to fetch stolen mummy hair from France

Dozens killed in battles with Somali rebels

Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai freed after detention

Britain keeps up pressure on 'vulnerable' Mugabe

British tourists trampled by elephant

Zimbabwe threatens to expel all western diplomats

<i>Gwynne Dyer:</i> Population bomb still ticking away

Cup view from London: English opt for ignorance

Tanzania: Scaling Mount Meru

At 4566m, Mt Meru ranks as the fifth-highest mountain in Africa, but is climbed by only a few hundred, rather than a few thousand, people a year.

Zimbabwe: 'They beat us with truncheons, metal bars, rifle butts, sjambok'

Action call on Mugabe

<i>Oil:</i> prices dip on US economic worries

Mugabe accuses own officials of plotting with the West