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Super 14: Key Chiefs to miss Force clash

A walk through Cairo's religious history

East of the Nile, Jill Worrall finds two neighbourhoods where life continues at a less frenetic pace than in the rest of the city.

The illegal camps that threaten to destroy Kenya's Masai Mara

An unpublished Kenyan government audit reveals that the Greater Mara ecosystem is now weighed down by 108 camps and lodges, many of which are flouting the law.

South Africa: Raw thrills on the wild side

Half the fun on a safari is the feeling that anything could happen, writes Stuart Dye.

Obama mother-in-law likes White House life

Egypt: Dazzled by the contents of Tutankhamun's tomb

Jill Worrall is bewitched by the beauty of the boy king's death mask.

Madonna's charity blasts land spat reports

The director of Madonna's Raising Malawi charity has blasted reports of a land dispute that pitted the star against impoverished villagers.

No elections in Ivory Coast

Campaign to save tropical forests failed by food giants

Western food manufacturers are buying so little sustainable palm oil that the system set up to limit damage to tropical forests caused by the world's cheapest vegetable oil is in danger of collapse.

27 die in religious conflict

Tumbele! - Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean: 1963-74

If the joyous and spirited sounds on this album are anything to go by, the 60s and early 70s would have been a golden age to be partying on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Health workers fear return of brutal ritual

Scientists stunned by fire-dancing chimps

Chimpanzees have been seen performing a "fire dance" in behaviour that could indicate an ability to understand and even control fire.

Dusty attempt at romance in the Libyan desert

A midnight phone call reminds Jill Worrall of the clumsy wooing she encountered in the Sahara.

'I'm not dead', says Nigerian President

NZ, US enter into diplomatic exchange