US President Barack Obama called Robin Williams "one of a kind" who shared his talent "freely and generously with those who needed it most".
Is helping a pal win a contract just being friendly? What's wrong with taking the kids to the beach in the office car? And why not linger over lunch at the trattoria if things aren't too hectic at work? These are the kinds of questions that city bureaucrats pondered recently in Florence in what has been billed as Italy's first anti-corruption class for public officials.
In the Yarmuk camp in southern Damascus, the notes escape a piano set in a scene of destruction, and the children in Ayham al-Ahmed's little group sing of hunger and suffering.
Palestinian and Israeli delegations on Tuesday were to resume "grueling" negotiations in Cairo aimed at ending the Gaza conflict as Egyptian mediators raced to narrow gaps between the warring sides.
Iraqi incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared more isolated on Tuesday as he pressed his battle to remain in power while Iraqi politicians and the international community rallied behind a Shiite prime minister-designate who could be a more-unifying figure, badly needed if the nation is to confront a spreading Sunni insurgency.
Exhausted and terrorized, many of the Yazidis of northern Iraq who straggled into the Kurdish town of Dohuk after escaping the Islamic State deathtrap of Mount Sinjar recalled the agony of leaving relatives exposed on the mountain.
"Do you need a car washer? Do you need a car washer?" This was the voice of Rashid, an 8-year-old Afghan boy, as he roamed around the streets of Kabul in search for work to support his family.
Liberia was awaiting on Tuesday the delivery of an experimental drug to treat Ebola patients as the World Health Organization debated the use of such treatments and announced the global death toll for the virus has topped 1,000.
Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people, has died in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city's health authorities said on Tuesday.
A Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying "humanitarian supplies" was headed to conflict-torn east Ukraine on Tuesday, despite warnings from the West that Moscow could be using the mission as a guise to sneak in troops.
Gunshots rang out and police fired tear gas at rock-throwing rioters late on Monday in a second night of violence over the death of a black teenager shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
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