Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mock selfie of a smiling President Tayyip Erdogan with the coffin of a soldier - an allusion to comments that families of soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels could be happy about their martyrdom.
A worsening haze across northern Indonesia, neighboring Singapore and parts of Malaysia on Tuesday forced some schools to close and airlines to cancel flights, while Indonesia ordered a crackdown against lighting fires to clear forested land.
Multimillionaire former banker Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in on Tuesday as Australia's fourth prime minister in just over two years, promising to create a dynamic new economy and end the divisive approach of his predecessor.
Hundreds of migrants spent the night in the open on Serbia's northern border with Hungary.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that dialogue between Moscow and Washington on solving the Syria crisis was indispensable.
Six-year-old Yasmine is crying on the beach. The men who have just brought her family across the narrow sea between Bodrum in Turkey and the Greek tourist island of Lesbos threw away the dress her grandmother gave her.
Mexico's foreign minister was headed to Cairo on Tuesday with relatives of tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces, after her government demanded an urgent investigation into the "unjustified attack".
French group AccorHotels announced on Monday it will become the first international hotel group to operate in Iran as the Islamic republic opens up to the West after the deal on its nuclear program.
Man-made global warming is set to produce exceptionally high average temperatures this year and next, boosted by natural weather phenomena such as El Nino, Britain's top climate and weather body said in a report on Monday.
Fifty World War II veterans attended a large gathering of 6,300 people in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday evening to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.
Taliban insurgents in military uniform set off a car bomb and stormed an Afghan prison on Monday, freeing hundreds of inmates and killing four policemen as they step up attacks despite a bitter leadership transition.
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