A Houthi Shiite rebel attack on a residential district in Yemen's second-largest city, Aden, killed at least 20 civilians on Wednesday as loyalist forces in Taez launched a manhunt for 1,200 escaped prisoners.
The death toll from the crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families rose to 142 on Wednesday, as witnesses described people fleeing from the disaster zone covered in blood with their clothes alight.
Heavily-armed police quelled a riot involving up to 300 inmates at an Australian prison on Wednesday over the introduction of a smoking ban. Some prisoners were injured.
At least 30 people were killed when Islamist militants attacked several checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in one of the biggest coordinated assaults yet in the insurgency-hit province, security and medical sources said.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has written to international creditors saying Greece could accept their last bailout offer if some conditions were changed, but Germany expressed skepticism while saying the door was still open for negotiations.
Lorenc Toska returned from Greece to his village in central Albania with empty pockets. He had been working there hoping to secure a better life for his family, but the crisis in the neighboring country ruined his dreams.
Crowds of anxious elderly Greeks thronged banks for hours from before dawn on Wednesday, struggling to be allowed to withdraw their maximum of 120 euros ($134) for the week, after Greece reopened some banks to help pensioners who don't have bank cards.
It's crunch time for Greece, with the European part of its international bailout expiring on Tuesday and with it any possible access to the remaining rescue loans it contains.
Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter Hakar Mustafa swaps his Kalashnikov assault rifle at night for a notebook and pen, learning reading, writing and math near the front line held against brutal jihadists.
When Susannah Mushatt Jones and Emma Morano were born in 1899, there had not yet been a world war, penicillin had not been invented and electricity was still considered a marvel. The women are believed to be the last two in the world with birth dates in the 1800s.
Just before sunrise, Raul Rua joins 15 others, including women, teenagers and children, for a half-hour walk to pick coca in the world's No 1 coca-producing valley.
A washing machine stands in the middle of Maria Jimenez's California yard, like a redundant relic of modern life. Nearby are several rented mobile toilets, no longer in use.
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