Clashes between Iraqi troops and Sunni militants west of Baghdad killed at least four children on Thursday as the United Nations announced its highest level of emergency for the Arab country's humanitarian crisis in the wake of the onslaught by the extremist Islamic State group.
Making gestures with his fingers, breathing hard with tubes placed into his neck and chest, Mohamed Badran repeated the same questions every five minutes: "Why can't I see anything? Where is my father?"
Israel and militants in Gaza were holding their fire on Thursday after a new truce got off to a shaky start, with nighttime Palestinian rocket fire followed by Israeli airstrikes.
An Australian hospital apologized "unreservedly" on Thursday after sending out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients that mistakenly said their patients had died, when in fact they had been discharged.
Nation in shock after plane crash kills Socialist presidential hopeful Campos
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs to disperse some 350 protesters late on Wednesday, the fourth night of racially charged demonstrations after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.
Climate change remains the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef, and the outlook for the natural wonder is "poor", an Australian government report has warned.
Lauren Bacall was a movie star from almost her first moment on the silver screen.
Celebrations started in Cuba on Tuesday to mark the birthday of the nation's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who turned 88 on Wednesday.
Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Africans have long used technology developed abroad, but now a Kenyan cash transfer network that bypasses banks is being adopted in Europe.
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