Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a conservative firebrand who frequently clashes with leaders of his Republican Party, became the first major figure from either major party to jump into the 2016 US presidential election race on Monday when he announced his candidacy on Twitter.
Whether it's the earnest Josiah Bartlet from The West Wing or the manipulative Frank Underwood in House of Cards, people in the US prefer television presidents to their real-life chief executive, President Barack Obama.
The slum-dwellers of Monrovia's Peace Island, refugees of civil war who found themselves suddenly overwhelmed and outmaneuvered by the deadly Ebola epidemic, are accustomed to life under siege.
Russia threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO's missile defense system, in comments Copenhagen called unacceptable and NATO said would not contribute to peace.
The threat of a jihadist attack in France has reached a level "without precedent," and new attacks are inevitable, according to top counterterrorism officials.
Six men and women were charged on Sunday for the rape and torture of a young woman allegedly held as a sex slave for a month, beaten and forced to engage in bestiality.
Four years after a tsunami ravaged much of Japan's northeastern coast, efforts to fend off future disasters are focusing on a 400-kilometer chain of sea walls, at places nearly five stories high.
Volcanic eruptions, landslides, earthquakes, cyclones - 76-year-old Lik Simelum from Vanuatu has survived them all.
Even by Afghanistan's standards of often-shifting alliances, a meeting between ethnic Hazara elders and commanders of the Taliban insurgents who have persecuted them for years was extraordinary.
For Shayaan Tahir, it all began seven years ago when an order he placed on Amazon for a new iPod was rejected because the online giant would not deliver electronics to Pakistan.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said security "failures" had helped facilitate the Islamic State group's deadly attack on the country's national museum on Wednesday that killed 23 people, 20 of them foreign tourists.
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