Ayi was fifteen when her parents sold her. She was sent to the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where her tasks included carrying heavy loads for market women. After a year she was forced to work as a prostitute. “I was given drugs and received clients...

Liberia is managing its entry into the arena of oil exploration with an eye on avoiding pitfalls that have befallen other resource-rich nations, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Tuesday. “We’re not going to have the so-called oil...

Two men earned 250,000 pounds through an unlicensed fertility company matching sperm donors with women trying to conceive, a court heard on Monday.

A top United Nations official, Lynn Pascoe, the U.N. under-secretary-general for political affairs, says he is “hopeful” for Somalia, where the government is trying to fight off an offensive by Islamist militants. This comes as Uganda is...

It’s a political memoir with celebrity trappings - secrecy, security, a multimillion-dollar deal and, crucially, controversy. Tony Blair’s “A Journey” was stirring political passions even before it hits bookstores Wednesday...

Britain’s coalition government announced wide-ranging political reforms Monday, starting with a referendum on the voting system that will test the cohesion of the governing Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a...

The “Pre-School Nutrition Project”, which was set up by Knowsley Borough Council and Chester University, sets out strict rules for nurseries which critics claimed risk “spoiling childhood”. Sweets and cakes brought in for...

At least 10 people, including five soldiers, have been wounded in army clashes with a powerful clan in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek. According to a security official, an army patrol, while searching for fugitives in a court case in...

A boy of 13 who overpowered a woman then raped her in front of his two friends will spend just three years locked away for his crimes. Balal Khan - thought to be one of the youngest convicted rapists in Britain - targeted the 20-year-old as she walked...

The alleged victim, who cannot be named, returned from playing near her home in Hayes, west London, on Tuesday afternoon to tell her mother that she had been raped by two boys she knew. Her mother telephoned the police shortly afterwards and specialist...