South Africa's main opposition accuses the intelligence service of hiring traditional healers to cleanse an office.

Key quotes from the main players in the conflict between Russia and Georgia over the country's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic says "ethnic cleansing" lives on in Bosnia, in an interview with the BBC's Hardtalk programme.

Travelling undercover in Zimbabwe, the BBC's Orla Guerin hears first-hand accounts of the government's alleged campaign of violent intimidation of opposition supporters.

A special 'cleansing' service is held at a church after it was vandalised on Easter Sunday.

A special 'cleansing' service is to be held at a church after it was vandalised on Easter Sunday.

The US envoy to Africa says the violence in Kenya's Rift Valley after December's election was ethnic cleansing.

The US envoy to Africa says the violence in Kenya's Rift Valley after December's election was ethnic cleansing.

Kenya's opposition leader denies government charges that his supporters planned a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Renowned Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o tells the BBC his views on the unrest that has engulfed Kenya since disputed elections.

The crisis in Kenya has prompted a wave of international pressure from governments concerned at the risk of ethnic cleansing and a descent into chaos of what was regarded as one of Africa's more stable political systems, says the BBC's Paul Reynolds

A hospital in north London believes an ultra-violet air-cleansing unit could be the answer to tackling MRSA.

The ex-leader of Croatia's Serb separatists, Milan Martic, is jailed for 35 years for numerous wartime atrocities.

Bosnian Serb leader Radoslav Brdjanin has his 32-year sentence for ethnic cleansing cut by two years.

Indigenous Mayns say they will perform a ceremony to clean holy land to be visited by the US president on a trip to Guatemala.

The BBC's Geeta Pandey meets Hindu pilgrims who have gathered for the Ardh Kumbh Mela, one of India's biggest festivals.

Actor George Clooney urges intervention in Darfur, telling the BBC he believes ethnic cleansing is taking place.

BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell meets a Turkish Cypriot who lost his father and a Greek Cypriot who lost his home.

BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell asks Turkish Cypriots what it feels like in the spotlight as the EU and Turkey fall out.

An Edinburgh council street sweeper suffers a serious hand injury when a firework explodes at a cleansing depot.