Explosions and gunfire rocked the northern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Monday, in a suspected Boko Haram attack that targeted police, according to residents.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye hit out on Monday at "groundless" rumors circling her administration, some of which have touched on her personal life and triggered defamation suits against domestic and foreign media outlets.
US President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd last year in Cape Town, South Africa, that a $7 billion plan, Power Africa, would double electrical output on the world's poorest continent and bring "light where currently there is darkness".
Poland's Donald Tusk takes over as European Council president on Monday, the first person from Eastern Europe to take a top Brussels role, with a mandate to revive the economy.
Children playing at a Sydney beach on Sunday discovered the body of a baby buried under the sand, Australian investigators said, just a week after a newborn was found crying at the bottom of a roadside drain.
Australia's conservative federal government was on Sunday assessing the opposition Labor Party's comfortable victory in the Victoria state election, with some citing the national government's unpopular policies as a key factor.
Uruguayans voted on Sunday for a new president, with former leader Tabare Vazquez looking set to win comfortably, securing the ruling leftist coalition a third consecutive term and allowing it to roll out its pioneering marijuana law.
The white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a St Louis suburb has resigned, his lawyer said on Saturday, as activists set out on a 193-km march to protest the killing and a grand jury's decision not to indict him.
A judge dismissed murder charges on Saturday against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and acquitted his security chief of the killing of protesters during Egypt's 2011 protests.
The Swiss appeared set to reject calls to cap immigration in the name of saving the environment, according to the public broadcaster and initial results.
A 13-year-old boy whose mother reported him missing four years ago was found by police hidden behind a false wall in his father's Georgia home, US media said.
The latest Taliban strike in Kabul killed a South African father and his two children, Afghan officials said on Sunday.
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