US warplanes bombed Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, responding to the UN-backed government's request to help push the militants from their former stronghold of Sirte in what US officials described as the start of a sustained campaign against extremists in the city.
The world seems to have forgotten the deafening sound of gunfire that rocks Juba streets as it focuses its attention on the Rio Olympic Games. These refugees have fled from war, literally running for their lives.
A Mexican mayor and four police officers were arrested in connection with the murder of 10 people whose bodies were burned, officials said on Monday, in the latest scandal involving the country's security forces.
Cuba said on Monday it was not willing to rush talks with the United States over multibillion-dollar claims and counterclaims and would agree only to an accord that addressed the grievances of both sides.
The death toll in flooding from heavy monsoon rains in India has climbed past 90, with about a million people taking shelter in government-run relief camps, officials said on Tuesday.
The $50 million building replaces the one where 20 schoolchildren and six teachers were killed
Sitting in his dimly-lit office in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, surrounded by files and boxes of condoms, matchmaker Ugochukwu Michael talks passionately about the part he has played in the marriages of around 100 couples in recent years.
Surrounded by male advisers and condescending "mansplainers", Masooma Muradi holds her own against a deep undersell of sexism in a society unaccustomed to women exercising authority.
There's not a lot of green in the urban jungle of Sao Paulo, but thanks to Fernanda Danelon, restaurants in the Brazilian megacity are turning their waste back into food at innovative gardens tucked amid the skyscrapers.
Kweku Adoboli, the ex-UBS trader jailed four years ago for the biggest fraud in British history, has said his crimes could be repeated as those working in the banking industry still faced the same pressure to make profits "no matter what".
An Australian Aboriginal leader was on Monday appointed to investigate the abuse of teenagers at a detention center after the judge named to lead the inquiry resigned, saying he lacked the confidence of the indigenous community.
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