Surfer, 13, killed in shark attack

A champion surfer who escaped a shark attack in South Africa live on television returns to the water six days later in his native Australia.

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The shark attack survivor who sticks up for sharks

The mother of champion Australian surfer Mick Fanning says a South African KFC advert which makes light of his attack by a shark is "disrespectful".

A 52-year-old German tourist is killed in a shark attack off an Egyptian Red Sea resort, police say, the first such death in five years.

Four people are killed and a number are injured when gunmen open fire in a church near the Kenyan city of Mombasa, officials say.

At least 69 people have been killed in an attack on villages in Katsina state, north-western Nigeria, officials and witnesses say.

Police have launched a manhunt after seven people were killed and an unspecified number of firearms stolen when armed gangsters attacked a major police station in Dar es Salaam on Sunday night.

A tourist believed to be from the US is killed in a South African game park after a lion jumped through a car window, an official tells the BBC.