Tunisia’s interior minister suspended all activities of the country’s former ruling party amid the most serious protests since the country’s autocratic president fled into exile.

The Tunisian army fired warning shots in the capital today as demonstrators marched toward the ruling party’s headquarters and government ministers quit the party in a desperate attempt to keep their jobs.

FOUR ministers quit Tunisia’s day-old government yesterday, undermining its hopes of quelling unrest by sharing power with members of the opposition to the old regime.

More than 100 people are feared dead after an overloaded ferry sank in eastern Congo’s Lake Tanganyika, a rebel official said today.

THE UN yesterday confirmed it had found evidence of cannibalism, mass executions, torture and rape

David Walker retained the £12,000 PGA Challenge title at Greenore with a closing four-under-par 67 for a two rounds total of five-under 137 and a three shots lead over the field.