Sri Lanka promised to deliver justice after a United Nations human rights report called on Wednesday for a special court to be set up to prosecute war crimes committed during the nation's 26-year civil conflict.
Gulf monarchies on Tuesday called for the international community to take greater responsibility in aiding Syrian refugees after the oil-flush states faced questions over the number of people they have accepted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday tougher penalties for stone throwers, a move that follows a third day of clashes in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman sanctioned the powerful Saudi Binladin Group on Tuesday over the collapse of a construction crane at Mecca's Grand Mosque, which killed more than 100 people days before the annual hajj pilgrimage to the city.
Croatia found itself dragged into Europe's migrant crisis on Wednesday as dozens walked through fields across Serbia's border with its western neighbor, rerouted by bus after Hungary locked down its own frontier with Serbia.
Flash floods have killed 12 people near Utah's border with Arizona when a "large wall of water and debris" triggered by heavy rain pounding nearby canyons swept them away in their cars, officials said on Tuesday.
Australia has launched its first airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, Defense Minister Kevin Andrews confirmed on Wednesday.
The White House said on Tuesday the United States would like to see Russia engage constructively with the international coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, rather than build up its own military presence there.
Japan has lodged a protest with Russia after scrambling four jet fighters to intercept a foreign aircraft - believed to be Russian - which briefly violated its airspace, officials said Wednesday.
Amid the bustle of a busy harvest in France's famed Beaujolais wine-making region, a quiet effort is underway to counter one of the industry's biggest potential threats: climate change.
From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice.
In theory, Japan and its allies could begin making plans for any possible overseas conflict after the expected enactment of defense legislation this week, but it is considered unlikely that Japan would send troops to back US-led operations against the Islamic State group.
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