Gina Miller has endured months of death threats and racist taunts for her decision to challenge the legal basis of Brexit, and while hopeful of victory on Tuesday, she is not looking forward to it.
Nigeria may consider itself a regional aviation hub but years of mismanagement and now recession have blighted domestic airline operations, making delays and cancellations the norm.
Billionaire Republican Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to bring unity to the United States as he swept into Washington on the eve of the most consequential moment of his life - his inauguration as 45th president of the country.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most notorious drug kingpins, is finally headed for a court date the United States sought for two decades while he made brazen prison escapes and spent years on the run in Mexico.
From gorillas to gibbons, about 60 percent of primates, the closest biological relatives to human beings, are threatened by extinction due largely to human activities, a study has found.
A man deliberately drove into pedestrians, killing four and injuring more than 20 in the center of Australia's second largest city Melbourne on Friday, but police said the lunchtime incident was not terrorism-related.
First came drought, then came floods. Rubber farmers in Thailand's south are counting the cost of extreme weather in the world's top growing region.
Eight people have been found alive under the avalanche that hit an Italian mountain hotel almost two days ago and rescuers are working to free them from the snow on Friday.
Every night they sleep above cold concrete, curled up in sleeping bags on rubber mattresses in a tent made of plastic sheets held together with tape. Their heads are inches away from cars zooming by - and from a bronze statue of a young girl that sits across from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.
In France it slipped into legend after delighting long-haired teenagers in the 1970s and 80s, but in Morocco the tireless moped trundles on despite an invasion of cheaper Chinese scooters.
A South Korean court on Thursday denied a special prosecutor clearance to arrest the head of Samsung Group, the country's largest company, amid a graft scandal that has led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
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