Seven foreign workers have been kidnapped in a raid on a compound in northern Nigeria.

It has been reported that a group of men armed with guns and explosives attacked the camp of a Lebanese construction company, snatching a British man along with Greek, Italian and Lebanese co-workers.

The British foreign office has called on Chad to arrest the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the international criminal court for five counts of crimes against humanity, is due to attend a regional summit in Chad.

Kosovans came out in celebration on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of the state's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia.

In the capital Pristina people came out onto the streets to celebrate.

The European Union has called on Israel to respect international humanitarian law on the treatment of prisoners, after widespread rioting in the West Bank over the treatment of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners.

European Union spokesperson Catherine Ashton stated,

Yemen’s former president and vice-president have been warned by the UN Security Council that they will face sanctions if they do not stop interfering in the Yemen’s democratic reforms.

Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his deputy Ali Salim al-Beidh are accused of meddling in the country’s affairs and the Council also expressed concern about reports that weapons and money were being smuggled into Yemen.

Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian protesters on Friday, outside an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank.

OVer 300 protesters who had gathered by the Ofer prison to show their support for Palestinians detained inside threw stones at the Israeli troops who used stun grenades, tear gas and fired rubber bullets into the crowd to break up the protest.

A "viable" pipe bomb was found by Forth River Primary school in Belfast on Friday.

Police said that the device was found by a member of the public in Forth River Road at approximately 3pm. The spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said:

In a report released this week, Human Rights Watch confirmed that at least 18 Israeli airstrikes, during the Israel-Gaza conflict in November 2012, were in violation of international law.

A district court in Oslo, Norway has convicted a Rwandan man for his part in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 21 years in prison.

Sadi Bugingo, a 47 year old man living in Norway, was found guilty of complicity in premeditated killings of at least 20,000 Tutsis. The court focussed on three attacks that occurred in Bugingo's home town of Kibungo in April 1994.

Sixteen-year-old Hussein Ali Ahmed was shot dead during clashes with Bahrain's security forces on Thursday, two years on from the start of the pro-democracy uprising in the Kingdom.

The incident occured in the village of Diya, near the capital Manama, where security forces were firing teargas, rubber bullets and birdshot at demonstrators.

Zimbabwe's important referendum on a new constitution said to be a major step towards democratic reform, has been "tentatively" set for 16th March.

The referendum is expected to be followed by elections were both the current president Robert Mugabe, and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai would run.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) have accused the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of failing to protect indigenous women and girls from violence in northern British Columbia, as well as abusive behaviour by the police itself.

HRW interviewed women and girls who described abusive treatment by police officers, including excessive use of force as well as physical and sexual assault.

The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed has taken refuge inside the country's Indian embassy after a local magistrate ordered his arrest.

Riot police barricaded the streets around the embassy as Nasheed's supporters gathered.