Photos of the Fifa World Cup fans from South Africa and around the world.

Photos from the game at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, long plagued by poor health, has died at age 58, his spokesman said.

Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim-dominated north and predominantly Christian south.

If the joyous and spirited sounds on this album are anything to go by, the 60s and early 70s would have been a golden age to be partying on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.

British intelligence passed on to US authorities about a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner - but he was not singled out as a particular risk, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Monday.

Yemeni officials say hundreds of al-Qaida members could be living in the country.