Authors from Yorkshire and Ghana created stories inspired by the imaginary worlds of the Brontë.

Recruitment materials, travel documents, and job offer letters were seized during the raid.

"It feels good to be an inspiration," double Guinness World Record breaker Hilda Baci tells the BBC.

Charles Mwesigwa led a degrading network exploiting vulnerable women in glamorous parts of Dubai.

All boxing activities in Ghana are suspended following the death of super-middleweight Ernest Akushey 11 days after a bout in Accra.

One resident said the cemetery in the capital had been left littered with discarded bottles and cans.

Some 260 suspects were arrested in the operation across 14 African countries, says Interpol.

On 28 September 2009, around 50,000 people took part in a rally to protest reported plans by military leader Moussa Dadis Camara to stand in the presidential election.

It started peacefully, until troops, under Camara’s rule entered the stadium and opened fire, killing more than 150 people.

Many others were left scarred, and women raped.

Asmaou Diallo’s son Aly was one of those killed that day, she’s been telling Megan Jones how she’s been campaigning for justice ever since.

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(Photo: Aly with his nieces and nephew. Credit: Asmaou Diallo)

India, Qatari royals, China and ecologists have their own, very different, views on Assumption Island's future.

French authorities say the "remarkable seizure" was found on board a fishing boat following a tip-off.

Peter Mutharika defeated the incumbent, Lazarus Chakwera, the election commission announces.

The president-elect of the southern African nation has a long and controversial political career.

The Haywards Heath charity is marking its 25th anniversary with a nationwide fundraising challenge.

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says he is a prime target of the Islamist group al-Shabab.

The battle for Kordofan, with a population of eight million, is the latest frontline in Sudan's civil war.

The drug - a twice-yearly injection – reduces the current HIV treatment cost in developing countries.

They had started legal action against Ghana for agreeing to accept them from the US.

The herd was fleeing lions, officials say

Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was imprisoned in Egypt for six years, is reunited with his family in Cairo after being pardoned.