Researchers at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Gottingen have drawn inspiration from humpback whales and found a way to make helicopters faster and more manoeuvrable.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has officially opened the newly expanded Kisumu International Airport, which will be subject to a second phase upgrade that will expand it further.

Engine Alliance, a team of top U.S. engine makers, said it had won a preliminary order to power 10 Airbus A380 superjumbos due to be delivered to Qatar Airways.

The European Union Naval Force (EU Navfor) flagship ESPS Patino, the Nato flagship TGN Giresun and Russian flagship Admiral Tributs and tanker Pechenga have conducted a replenishment at sea exercise whilst patrolling for pirates off the Horn of Africa.

A group of suspected pirates caught during a Royal Navy operation in the Indian Ocean will face prosecution in the Seychelles after the RFA Fort Victoria handed them over to Seychelles authorities.

The French Navy patrol frigate FS Nivose will make port in Cape Town on Saturday. The ship will again sail next Thursday.

The Department of Communications (DOC) will present the National Cyber Security Policy Framework for South Africa to Cabinet in March.

South Africa is in urgent need of a national cyber-policing strategy and unit to guard against the kind of internet fraud that saw the state Postbank robbed of R42 million over the festive season, a University of Johannesburg professor and computer scientist told...

An Indonesian hacker, who calls himself Direxer, has hacked 103 Kenyan government Web sites in an incident that has exposed a glaring gap in the security of the government's data.

British defence technology company QinetiQ said it expects to meet full-year profit forecasts despite uncertainty on future levels of military spending in Britain and the United States.

The U.S. Navy still hopes to find cost savings on its version of Northrop Grumman Corp's unmanned Global Hawk spy plane, despite concerns that the Pentagon's decision to scrap the Air Force model will eliminate promised economies of scale.

The U.S. Air Force said it plans a $2.8 billion upgrade of about 350 of its aging F-16 multi-role fighter planes to help offset slower purchases of the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Tribesmen in Yemen freed six U.N. aid workers, two days after they were kidnapped to secure the release of a jailed man from police custody, one of the hostage-takers said.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it had rejected a request by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's daughter to submit information in the case of her brother, who is awaiting trial in Libya on rape and murder charges.

Five Turkish engineers kidnapped last September in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur were freed and flown to the capital Khartoum the state news agency SUNA and the Red Cross said.

Two dozen Chinese cement factory workers kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were freed a day after being taken hostage by Bedouin tribesmen, Chinese and Egyptian media reported.

At about 10.40 one morning last August, Mohammed Abul Barra rammed his ash-coloured station wagon into a security gate outside the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, knocking it off its hinges. Barra's 1996 Honda Accord then crashed through...

Rwanda has bought portable explosives trace detectors for use by its Presidential Guard Unit. The devices were bought from Implant Sciences Corporation of the United States.