Pirates hijacked on Friday a chemical tanker that was travelling off the coast of Madagascar, the ship's Norwegian owner Broevigtank said. "The captain of the ship called us early this morning and told us: we have pirates on board. Very quickly afterwards we lost all contact with the boat," company director Svenn Pedersen told AFP. The Marshall Island-flagged UBT ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Pirates have hijacked a Marshall Islands-registered tanker off Madagascar and are heading toward Somali waters, the ship's Norwegian owners said Friday. The UBT Ocean, with a crew of 21, was carrying fuel oil from the United Arab Emirates to Tanzania, Svenn Pedersen, chief executive of shipowners Brovigtank, told Reuters. He said contact was lost with the ...

Scientists have uncovered the bones of a dinosaur-like creature that roamed Earth at least 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaur, according to a study published Thursday. Discovered in Tanzania, Asilisaurus kongwe would have been waist-high to a human, ate plants, and lived some 240 million years ago, said the study, published in Nature. The discovery means that ...

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete vowed a new election law would impose tighter controls on campaign financing and improve the standards of this year's polls. Kikwete, speaking late Sunday in his monthly televised address, said the new measures were crucial to ensuring the credibility of the legislative and presidential elections due in October. "The whole electoral process... right from nomination ...