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Former Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles says he’s learnt a “valuable lesson” after a court found that he’d tried to avoid paying up to £1 million tax. The last few minutes of The Chris …

Three men aged 88, 92 and 94 have been detained by German authorities on suspicion of being guards at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The homes of a number of men were raided …

Kenya’s parliament has launched a biometric fingerprint system to register MPs’ attendance. Kenyan MPs can get $232 a week for attending parliament Parliamentary speaker Justin Muturi denied that it was introduced to “curb fraud” …

Three tonnes of confiscated ivory worth more than $6m (£3.7m) has been publicly destroyed in France, in what was the first such move in Europe. Some 7,000 elephant tusks and 15,000 carved ornaments were …

South Africa’s main opposition party has announced anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele will be its presidential candidate this year. Mamphela Ramphele only formed her own party last year Ms Ramphele, the companion of late black consciousness …

The son of the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, has called on the country’s authorities to take military action against militant groups. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: “I think we have exhausted the …

A court in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi has sentenced a 65-year-old British man to death after convicting him of blasphemy. Mohammad Asghar was arrested in 2010 after writing letters to various people claiming …