Breaking wind in public has been banned in a Malawian city.

A GAY couple from Malawi arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison after they threw a lavish engagement party were freed from prison hours after receiving a presidential pardon, prison officials said.

A gay couple pardoned by Malawi’s president has been released from jail, a prisons spokesman said today.

A JUDGE convicted a gay couple in Malawi of unnatural acts and gross indecency after a trial that drew worldwide condemnation of this southern African country’s colonial-era laws on homosexuality.

Ivory Coast became the second African nation to qualify for the 2010 World Cup tonight after a second-half strike from Chelsea star Didier Drogba earned them the point they needed to secure their place in South Africa.

Malawi’s highest court heard arguments today on Madonna’s bid to adopt a three-year-old girl from the southern African country, as a dispute erupted over whether a man trying to stop the proceedings is the girl’s father.

As Malawi’s highest court prepares to decide on Madonna’s bid to adopt a second child from the country, a dispute has erupted over whether a man trying to stop the proceedings is the three-year-old girl’s father.

A 24-YEAR-OLD Malawian man who claims to be the father of a girl Madonna wants to adopt vowed yesterday to fight the US pop icon’s adoption bid.

Malawi’s embattled Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha was arrested on treason charges tonight, after a court prevented the government from firing him, his lawyer said.

MALAWI’S new president appealed yesterday to the leader of an opposition coalition to reign in his supporters after bloody riots over the results of the country’s third multiparty elections.

Malawi’s new president appealed today to the leader of an opposition coalition to reign in his supporters after bloody riots over the results of the country’s third multiparty elections.

OPPOSITION supporters rampaged through Malawi’s streets after electoral officials declared President Bakili Muluzi’s designated successor the winner of the impoverished southern African country’s third multi-party elections.

Opposition supporters rampaged through Malawi’s streets after electoral officials declared President Bakili Muluzi’s designated successor the winner of the impoverished southern African country’s third multi-party elections.

DENIS THATCHER, husband of Margaret Thatcher and her faithful consort throughout her premiership, died yesterday in the Lister Hospital, London. He was 88.

Five men suspected of funnelling money to al-Qaida have been handed over to the US by the impoverished southern African nation of Malawi.

THE southern African famine has become so severe even mice are scarce in the region, aid agencies have said.

A traditional healer and a village leader have been arrested in Malawi on charges they illegally detained 31 people in a dingy room for three days.