Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore announced his resignation in a statement on Friday and called for a 90-day transition to "free and transparent" elections in the West African country, local media said.
Sweden officially recognized the State of Palestine on Thursday, becoming the first major Western European country to do so.
Palestine urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to demand that Israel immediately reverse plans to build more Jewish settlements.
China urged Israel on Wednesday to be serious in halting all settlement activities immediately and to resume peace talks with Palestine.
Australia on Thursday passed a law criminalizing travel to terror hot spots, a tough counter-terrorism measure aimed at stopping jihadists from going to Iraq and Syria to fight.
When Indira Gandhi was gunned down by her bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984, the instant elevation of her son Rajiv to the post of prime minister appeared to confirm her family's status as India's natural-born rulers.
State police plan to monitor the movements and interactions of a nurse who vowed to defy the state's quarantine for healthcare workers who treat Ebola patients, but troopers cannot take her into custody without a judge's permission.
Members of the West African community in New York complained on Wednesday that their children were being bullied at school and that businesses were losing money because of hysteria over Ebola.
A US government health official attended an Ebola meeting in Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday, signaling the two nations' desire to cooperate in a fight against the deadly epidemic.
European Union-brokered talks to resolve a bitter natural gas supply dispute between Russia and Ukraine stalled on Thursday as Moscow demanded that Brussels and Kiev first agree on how Ukraine will pay its huge bill.
Russia is eyeing a project worth about $25 billion to overhaul the railway network of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in return for access to mineral resources, Moscow's government daily reported on Thursday.
Trains, buses and taxis for women only are on the rise in cities globally, with a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey finding women feel safer on single-sex transport, but gender experts dismissing this as a Band-Aid solution that could backfire for women.
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