The one surviving animal from last month's attempt to transfer 11 rhinos from Nairobi and Lake Nakuru national parks to Tsavo East is in a critical condition.

Hundreds of migrants stranded on board the Aquarius rescue vessel in the Mediterranean will be transferred to Italian ships and taken to Spain, French charity SOS Mediterranee said Tuesday.

Qatar’s award-winning airport recently opened two additional transfer points, bringing the total to four separate transfer areas.

Brussels-based SWIFT said last month that security controls instituted after last year's $81mn theft from Bangladesh's central bank helped thwart some recent hacking attempts.

A group of mainly Syrian women and children who have been stranded in Greece pitched tents opposite parliament in Athens on Wednesday in a protest against delays in reuniting with relatives in Germany.

Egypt's parliament on Wednesday backed plans to hand over two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia under an agreement that has attracted widespread public criticism.

Yemen’s top security body has blamed Al Qaeda for a bomb blast at a police academy in Sanaa, as authorities gave a new toll yesterday of 40 killed in the attack.

Afghan protesters participate in a demonstration against the visit of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Pakistani religious leader, to Afghanistan, in Kabul, yesterday.