World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.
Tunisia's public TV channel Wataniya threatened on Monday to stop broadcasting football matches after two of its journalists were wounded during weekend unrest.
The presidency of Nigeria has announced that it will be negotiating for the release of 110 girls abducted from a school in the northeastern town of Dapchi in the Yobe state.
There is anger in Uganda after a Member of Parliament in that country told men to "beat" their wives. Onesimus Twinamasiko is reported by Ugandan television channel NTVÂ to have said that "as a man, you need to discipline your wife.
