In Britain, a women’s rights charity behind a t-shirt campaign, which is now caught up in controversy over claims the products were made in "sweatshop" conditions, has said it will order the clothes be withdrawn from sale if the reports are proven.

Two British teenagers attacked with acid on the African island of Zanzibar have arrived back in the UK.

The family of one of the two British teenagers attacked with acid on Zanzibar has released a photograph of the injuries suffered by their daughter as they arrived back in the UK.

The billionaire heiress to the L’Oreal beauty goods empire has sold a Seychelles island at the heart of a tax evasion case, the archipelago’s government said.

For eight weeks Mauritius has been transfixed by events in the island’s Supreme Court as two men stood trial and were acquitted for the murder of Irish honeymooner Michaela McAreavey. David Young assesses the Mauritian perspective on proceedings and whether that holiday paradise image has been tarnished forever

A 95-year-old Irish priest who has lived most of his life in Mauritius said he fears the murder of Michaela McAreavey will tarnish the holiday island’s hospitable reputation.

The trial of two men accused of strangling the daughter of Tyrone gaelic football manager Mickey Harte as she honeymooned in Mauritius is set to begin today.

Two local men have appeared in court on the island of Mauritius charged with murdering Michaela McAreavey.

The daughter of Tyrone GAA manager Mickey Harte who was found dead on honeymoon in Mauritius may have been killed, it was claimed tonight.

An attempted coup on the troubled Indian Ocean island of Madagascar has been defused without bloodshed, the regime’s prime minister said.

Police in Madagascar said they have arrested the leader of a failed mutiny.

TANKS and troops took control of a presidential palace in the centre of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo yesterday after the military joined opposition leader Andry Rajoelina in his power struggle with President Marc Ravalomanana.

Richard Hughes could finish only third as Christophe Soumillon lifted a third International Jockeys' championship in Mauritius.

A bomb blast blamed on separatist Tamil Tigers wounded 45 people in Sri Lanka’s capital today.

Sixteen members of a religious cult – including a leading fugitive – were in custody today on an Indian Ocean island after French commandos stormed their compound and rescued a boy they had allegedly kidnapped.

Doctors suspect a French woman who recently returned from Turkey could have contracted bird flu, the Health Ministry reported today.

Croatian war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina was flown to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, today, the Defence Ministry said.

THE Sri Lankan tsunami survivor known as ‘Baby 81’ and the couple fighting a court battle to claim him were yesterday ordered by a judge to undergo DNA testing next Wednesday, and an official said results could be known within eight hours.

The couple claiming tsunami Baby 81 were arrested today after they stormed into the Sri Lankan hospital where the baby is being treated.

The French health minister was heading for Sri Lanka today to start a continuous airborne supply operation from France to the Indian Ocean island hit by Asia’s tsunami disaster.