More than a dozen injured in first major activity in three years

Nigeria has been added to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists' annual list of most dangerous countries

Nigeria today joined the list of countries where journalists are routinely murdered and assaulted without any convictions for their attackers.

Thousands march in May Day protests in Dhaka over lax safety regulations

A toy glockenspiel given to him aged six fuelled his passion for the piano. It served him well – already he has played for the Prince of Monaco alongside Lulu.

Most of us associate US Cavalry charges with Hollywood or John Wayne but the last American mounted charge was not against American Indians in the "Wild West"; it was in the equally wild Far East during the Second World War, and it was led by First Lieutenant Edwin Ramsey on 16 January 1942. He and the rest of his 27-man platoon (G Troop of 26th US Cavalry), their heads low over their horses' necks and firing their Colt 1911 pistols (the US Cavalry had hung up its traditional sabres a decade earlier), galloped headlong into a far larger force of Japanese infantrymen in the village of Morong on the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines.

The number of female tourists visiting India has fallen by more than one-third since the Delhi gang rape in which a 23-year-old student was killed, according to a survey by the country’s Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

The Philippines has a strong tobacco industry, but it pledged to ban advertising

Cutting edge technology is replacing outmoded ways of recording a message, like voicemail and the carrier-pigeon

Police have launched a manhunt after a wealthy socialite was found battered to death in his flat in one of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods.

The army have unleashed air strikes and mortar attacks on nearly 200 Filipinos occupying a remote coastal village in Borneo.

Ah, Phil. When will you learn?

A shadowy Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of seven foreign building workers in northern Nigeria.

Of the 120 electors who get to vote 67 of them have been appointed by Benedict