World news
15.53 Tue Jun 10 2008
Ethiopian food crisis - EU and US threaten Iran with further sanctions - Ukraine's water protests
World news on June 10, 2008
06.12 Tue Jun 10 2008
Ethiopia receives extra aid from the UK - Spanish fuel protests continue - US flooding rages on
Floods hit eastern Africa
10.49 Sat Sep 15 2007
Floods from torrential rains have killed at least 41 people, displaced thousands more and drowned livestock across east Africa.
Ethiopia parties like it's 1999
10.57 Tue Sep 11 2007
Ethiopia is preparing to celebrate the millennium, nearly eight years after most of the world.
Kidnapped Briton in Somalia released
14.03 Wed May 16 2007
Two foreign aid workers kidnapped last week in northern Somalia have been released.
Fighting in Somalia intensifies
07.43 Sun Apr 01 2007
Civilians continue to be killed during heavy fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Kidnapped Britons come home
15.47 Thu Mar 15 2007
The five British embassy staff kidnapped in Ethiopia have returned to the UK.
Kidnap Britons happy to be free
15.51 Wed Mar 14 2007
The British Embassy hostages kidnapped in Ethiopia are "immensely happy" to be free.
Five kidnapped in Ethiopia are freed
20.52 Tue Mar 13 2007
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has announced five people kidnapped in Ethiopia have been released and are in good health.
Ethiopia: Kidnapped Britons still missing
15.29 Tue Mar 13 2007
A vehicle used by British Embassy staff kidnapped in Ethiopia is being returned to Addis Ababa in a bid to find out more about the attack.
Ethiopia: kidnapped Britons are 'safe'
21.02 Fri Mar 09 2007
The Ethiopian government has confirmed the group of British diplomats and their families kidnapped eight days ago are in a safe condition.
Beckett calls for release of hostages
12.27 Thu Mar 08 2007
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has expressed "deep concern" over the fate of five UK embassy staff abducted a week ago in Ethiopia.
Somali attack kills at least 11
11.02 Thu Mar 08 2007
At least 11 people died when insurgents targeted African Union peacekeepers with a rocket-propelled grenade at a Somali restaurant.
Plea for Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia
08.04 Tue Mar 06 2007
Efforts to find five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia are being stepped up after their bullet-riddled cars were found.
Vehicles found where Britons kidnapped
21.40 Mon Mar 05 2007
Three abandoned, shot-up British embassy vehicles have been found near the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
Rescue operation for missing Britons
19.43 Sat Mar 03 2007
An operation is under way to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia.
Britons among Ethiopia 'kidnapped'
23.51 Fri Mar 02 2007
Several Britons with links to the government are among a group of western tourists believed to have been kidnapped in Ethiopia.
Starbucks steps aside in coffee row
11.52 Sat Feb 17 2007
US coffee chain Starbucks has stepped aside in a trademark row with Ethiopia in what was being pitched as a case of corporate bullying.
Starbucks steps aside in coffee row
11.51 Sat Feb 17 2007
US coffee chain Starbucks has stepped aside in a trademark row with Ethiopia in what was being pitched as a case of corporate bullying.