DR Congo President Joseph Kabila’s party and its allies won a parliamentary majority in November elections, results showed on Thursday, some two months after polls slammed by the opposition and observers. The ruling People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and its allies captured an absolute majority of 260 seats out of the National Assembly’s [...]

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Mogadishu on Thursday, one of the highest profile visitors and the most senior British official to the war-torn Somali capital in two decades. Hague met with Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed at the presidential palace in Mogadishu, an AFP correspondent reported, as London boosts efforts to resolve the anarchic [...]

The closest most Britons will come to catching a private glimpse of the queen is perhaps on unofficial newspaper photographs showing the 85-year-old monarch astride a horse in a headscarf and brightly-coloured riding boots. Readers may be informed that just like Helen Mirren in the award-winning film The Queen the mon-arch had taken to the [...]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took his fight against extradition to Sweden over rape allegations to Britain’s top court on Wed-nesday in a case that could trigger a major upheaval in European law. The 40-year-old Australian’s lawyers told the Supreme Court in London that the Swedish prosecutor who issued the European Arrest Warrant in December 2010 [...]