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The world's first successful penis transplant has been reported by a surgical team in South Africa. The 21-year-old recipient, whose identify is being protected, lost his penis in a botched circumcision. Doctors in Cape Town said the operation was a success and the patient was happy and healthy. The team said there was extensive discussion about whether the operation, which is not life-saving in the same way as a heart transplant, was ethical.

Tim Cook regularly visited Steve Jobs at his home during his illness Apple chief executive Tim Cook offered a part of his liver to a dying Steve Jobs, according to a new book due to be released this month. The book, Becoming Steve Jobs, excerpts of which have been published online, throws light on life inside Apple as it grew into one of the world's most powerful technology companies. It also charts the relationship between Mr Cook and Mr Jobs.

Relations between President Ernest Bai Koroma (left) and Mr Sam-Sumana (right) have long been frosty Sierra Leone's Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has gone into hiding while he seeks political asylum at the US embassy in the capital, Freetown. Mr Sam-Sumana told the BBC he and his wife fled their home after "a tip-off" that soldiers were surrounding it.

Mr Chabane was said to be close to President Zuma and is here pictured behind the president in June 2012 A South African cabinet minister, Collins Chabane, and two of his security staff have been killed in a car crash. Their car collided with a lorry in the north-eastern city of Polokwane. Mr Chabane, 54, was minister for public service, a member of the governing ANC's national executive committee and a close associate of President Jacob Zuma.

Senegal have accepted a request from the Confederation of African Football (Caf) to host the 2015 African Under-23 Championship in December, replacing the Democratic Republic of Congo. It follows a meeting on Friday between the Senegal president, Macky Sall (pictured) and the Caf president Issa Hayatou. The tournament also serves as qualifiers for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Shaimaa Khalil reports on the blasts that have left at least 10 dead The bombers targeted Christians as they were attending Sunday morning mass Two bomb blasts have killed at least 10 people near two churches in a Christian neighbourhood of the Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials say. At least 50 people were reportedly hurt in the explosions at the Catholic church and Christ Church in the city's Youhanabad area. Violent protests erupted after the blasts, with large crowds already in the area to attend Sunday mass.

Attacks, murders, abductions and the humiliation of minorities in the Middle East have now reached frightening levels. Displaced Assyrians, who fled from the villages around Tel Tamr, sit outside the Assyrian Church in al-Hasaka city [REUTERS Our neighbourhood in East Jerusalem housed Christian as well as Muslim families. To our right lived Armenians and Arab Christians, and to our left were three Muslim neighbours. And although my mum and dad were evidently sensitive to their backgrounds - Armenian, Palestinian Christian or Palestinian Muslim - what truly mattered to them in the end was theperson rather than the religion, confession or ethnicity.