Malian and French forces were reported in control of two important towns on Tuesday as the United States military said it had begun airlifting French troops and equipment to Mali’s capital.

Malian and French troops appeared to recapture two important towns from militants who have overrun the country’s northern half.

A South African court on Monday said a Nigerian man was guilty of masterminding twin car bombings in Nigeria in 2010.

Ugandan troops in the Central African Republic have killed the chief bodyguard of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan Army officer said Monday.

In a bid to better project the expected rise in sea level from global warming, a team is studying a past era, the Pliocene, that appears to have experienced a sharp rise, too.