A fishing boat carrying an estimated 600 migrants capsized on Wednesday in the Mediterranean north of Libya, and at least 150 people were spotted in the sea, Irish military officials said.
The 193 member states of the United Nations have reached agreement on a new development agenda for the next 15 years that calls for eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality, improving living standards and taking urgent action to combat climate change.
The decision to include a pledge to eradicate slavery at the heart of a UN global development agenda is a major victory, but there is a long way to go, campaigners against trafficking and slavery said on Monday.
A Picasso worth 25 million euros ($27.4 million) and considered a national treasure by Spanish authorities - who had barred it from being exported - has been seized from a boat docked in Corsica, French authorities said on Tuesday.
A big-game trophy collector from Idaho has been criticized by animal-rights activists for flaunting online images of herself posed with the carcasses of a giraffe and other wildlife she killed during a recent guided hunt in South Africa.
The last surviving pilot of the top-secret World War II Dambusters raid on Germany has died aged 96, the New Zealand Bomber Command Association said on Tuesday.
An Iranian government official says the Islamic Republic will allow some BBC journalists to report there for a week. The BBC had no immediate comment in London.
The United States said on Monday it has used air power in Syria in defense of allied rebel groups, signaling deeper involvement in the country's four-year civil war.
US-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians and more than 15,000 militants in the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group said on Monday.
Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently clearing him of receiving nearly $700 million from a debt-laden state fund.
Pakistan executed a man on Tuesday who was convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy in 2004 - when his family and lawyers say he was just a teen - despite protest over his sentence, officials said.
South Korea said on Tuesday that it had agreed to an 85.1 billion won ($73 million) deal with a Chinese-led consortium to salvage a ferry that sank in an accident that killed more than 300 people in April 2014. A formal contract may be signed as early as Wednesday.
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