Violence in Burundi is in danger of escalating to mass atrocity crimes, the United Nations warned on Monday, but the tiny African state said it was "not in flames" and would work to allay fears of an impending genocide.
Once bustling with sinewy young men like any other farming village in Mali, Kodjan is starting to look distinctly gray.
The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned on Monday after the football team and others on campus openly revolted over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured US President Barack Obama on Monday that he remained committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as they sought to mend ties strained by acrimony over Middle East diplomacy and Iran.
The government spokesman said a shooting spree at a police training center that killed five people, including two US instructors, took place in a canteen in the compound.
It's early morning, but already "Medicine Baba" Omkarnath Sharma is pounding the pavement in one of New Delhi's upscale neighborhoods, collecting the well-heeled's leftover pills, capsules and syrups.
November marks the olive harvest season in southern Lebanon, and with over 4 million olive trees, the fields are full of activity. Harvesting olives is a seasonal profession for over 200,000 displaced Syrians who fled their war-torn country to south Lebanon.
Indian financial markets took fright on Monday because of the defeat suffered in a pivotal state election by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party, whose leaders are expected to meet amid calls for a rethink of policies and priorities.
Australian officials were working on Monday to contain unrest at a remote detention center for asylum seekers in the Indian Ocean, with protesters lighting a series of small fires and guards withdrawing from the compound.
The Philippines National Nutrition Council (NNC) has expressed alarm over an increase in overweight and obese individuals, an "emerging problem" in the country, saying that this will result in a future generation of unhealthy Filipinos.
The first team of Russian inspectors arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to conduct security checks at the airport after the Oct 31 Sinai jetliner crash. The experts are focusing their work in the predeparture area, airport deputy director Hani Ramzy told Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti on Sunday.
Russians took to social media in large numbers over the weekend to denounce French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, after the Kremlin condemned as blasphemous its cartoons about the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt.
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