Paul and Rachel Chandler, who spent more than a year kidnapped by Somali pirates, are to give MPs their opinions on the Government's efforts to secure their release... more
Two British nationals have been accused of helping terrorists linked to al Qaeda after being arrested trying to cross the Kenyan border to Somalia.... more
Hundreds of Kenyan troops backed by helicopters and armoured cars crossed the border into Somalia today, as the hunt for militants accused of kidnapping Europeans intensified... more
Iain Duncan Smith was not exaggerating when he warned of the shocking reality of Britain's gang culture. Gavin Knight investigates how teenage boys are recruited by ruthless 'Olders' and coerced into killing for money... more
The Kenyan army has deployed helicopter gunships and speedboats to search for a British woman snatched from a luxury holiday resort as fears grow that she has been kidnapped by Islamist militants... more
On a windswept plain with no running water and barely any food, the Evening Standard finds victims of the worst famine to strike parts of the Horn of Africa in 60 years... more
The United Nations warns that the famine in East Africa is yet to peak and hundreds of thousands of people face starvation and death without a huge global response... more
The United Nations declares a famine in southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle in southern Somalia as the worst drought in east Africa for more than half a century affects 10million people ... more
Aid agencies have launched emergency appeals after warning 'millions of people' face a fight for survival because of the worst drought in East Africa in decades... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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