Two US women tourists and their Egyptian guide who were kidnapped in the south of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula have been released, security sources say.

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Sinai gunmen release US tourists

The owner of a French breast implant maker at the centre of an international safety scare is arrested in the south of France, police sources say.

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PIP breast implant boss arrested

A student from Newcastle University becomes the youngest Briton to ski the full distance to the south pole.

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Skiing student reaches south pole

Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton is about to start a 500 mile trek across Antarctica to the south pole, to raise money for Sport Relief.

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VIDEO: Skelton to start polar challenge

Saif al-Islam, the fugitive son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been captured in the south of the country, Libyan officials say.

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Gaddafi’s son ‘captured in Libya’

An Israeli man has been killed by a rocket attack from Gaza after nine Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli air strikes on the south of the Gaza Strip.

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Ten killed in Israel-Gaza attacks

At least 20 soldiers die after Yemeni warplanes bomb army positions in the south, local officials and medics said, though the government denied the reports.

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‘Dozens die’ after S Yemen attack

Libya’s interim leadership says it has captured key areas in the south but its forces have paused advances on two pro-Gaddafi strongholds.

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Gaddafi forces ‘lose oasis towns’

A job creation scheme brings hope to the south Wales valleys

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Valley dreams

Sudan’s military bombs a village in the oil-rich southern Unity State, southern officials say, as tensions rise ahead of the south’s independence.

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Sudan ‘bombs southern oil state’

A couple banned from keeping animals admit keeping a pony, goats, geese and a dozen pets in squalid conditions in a cellar at their home in the south Wales valleys.

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Couple kept pony in home cellar

A bridge linking Sudan’s disputed Abyei border region to the south was nearly hit in an aerial bombardment a day after an attack on a UN peacekeeping convoy, the UN says.

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Near miss for Sudan border bridge

A diver who was rescued with the help of a warship off the south Devon coast dies in hospital.

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Diver dies after warship rescue

People in the south Armagh village of Bessbrook express their horror after a mother was raped while out walking with her children

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‘Horror’ as children witness rape

The difference in mortality rates between the north and the south of England are at their widest for 40 years, according to a study.

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North-South health divide widens