British Prime Minister David Cameron and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will meet within the next two days in New York, where Cameron is expected to ask for help in the fight against Islamic State.
Clutching their preserve jars, Tupperware boxes and cloth shopping bags, Berliners can now buy their groceries pack-age-free in a "precycling" first for the environmentally switched-on city.
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft began orbiting the red planet on Sunday, on a mission to study how climate changed over time from warm and wet to cold and dry.
Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth, in stride with demonstrators around the world urging policymakers to take quick action.
The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune in oil, and other philanthropies and high-wealth individuals planned on Monday to announce pledges to divest a total of $50 billion from fossil fuel investments.
The Australian government has bent to public pressure by proposing a law that would prohibit the torture of suspected terrorists by officers of the country's secret service.
A brutal terrorist organization that calls itself a state but lacks recognition from any government will take center stage when more than 140 heads of state and government convene this week for the annual ministerial meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Turkey said on Monday that about 130,000 people have flooded across its border from Syria fleeing an advance by Islamic State jihadists on a strategic Kurdish border town.
Syria has accused the West of lacking the "true will" necessary to confront terrorism in the region, criticizing the US-led coalition that has vowed to crush the Islamic State group, according to the state news agency SANA.
Millions of people in Sierra Leone emerged from their homes on Monday after a nationwide lockdown during which scores of bodies and new cases of Ebola infections were uncovered.
Former Australian leader John Howard has said he is embarrassed that the US intelligence on weapons of mass destruction he used to send troops to Iraq in 2003 proved to be unfounded.
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