Around the world, people use bank machines to access cash. But in the Kenyan capital's crowded slums, people use similar machines to access an even more basic requirement - clean water.
Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but are still a luxury for a third of the world's people who have no access to them, according to a report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
The United States and Cuba have agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries' historic bid to restore ties after more than a half-century of hostile relations.
A Houthi Shiite rebel attack on a residential district in Yemen's second-largest city, Aden, killed at least 20 civilians on Wednesday as loyalist forces in Taez launched a manhunt for 1,200 escaped prisoners.
The death toll from the crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families rose to 142 on Wednesday, as witnesses described people fleeing from the disaster zone covered in blood with their clothes alight.
Heavily-armed police quelled a riot involving up to 300 inmates at an Australian prison on Wednesday over the introduction of a smoking ban. Some prisoners were injured.
At least 30 people were killed when Islamist militants attacked several checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in one of the biggest coordinated assaults yet in the insurgency-hit province, security and medical sources said.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has written to international creditors saying Greece could accept their last bailout offer if some conditions were changed, but Germany expressed skepticism while saying the door was still open for negotiations.
Lorenc Toska returned from Greece to his village in central Albania with empty pockets. He had been working there hoping to secure a better life for his family, but the crisis in the neighboring country ruined his dreams.
Crowds of anxious elderly Greeks thronged banks for hours from before dawn on Wednesday, struggling to be allowed to withdraw their maximum of 120 euros ($134) for the week, after Greece reopened some banks to help pensioners who don't have bank cards.
It's crunch time for Greece, with the European part of its international bailout expiring on Tuesday and with it any possible access to the remaining rescue loans it contains.
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