An Eritrean national facing sentence for rape had to be carried screaming and kicking by prison officers across the Round Hall of the Four Courts to a cell after he was deemed too dangerous to be kept in court.

Rebels stormed a Chinese-run oil field at dawn in eastern Ethiopia today, killing 74 workers and destroying the facility, the guerrilla group and government officials said.

Eight Ethiopians who had been captured along with a group of European tourists who were released earlier today made their way back to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa after being held for 52 days in one of the most inhospitable areas on Earth.