Al-Shabab fighters storm military base in Somalia
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The al-Qaeda-linked militants have carried out a wave of attacks on military bases in Somalia Militant Islamists have attacked a Somali military base and police station near the border with Kenya, killing eight soldiers,
Rohingya crisis: UN sees ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Almost 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured out of Myanmar since 25 August The security operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", the UN human rights chief says. Zeid Raad
Dallas gunman kills seven watching Dallas Cowboys match
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Police vehicles arriving at the scene of the shooting, in the Dallas suburb of Plano A gunman has killed seven people at a home in Dallas, Texas, before being shot dead by police.Two further shooting
India raises ‘offensive’ lamb advert with Australia
Image copyright MEAT & LIVESTOCK AUSTRALIA Image caption The advert has drawn controversy over its depiction of Ganesha India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over an advert depicting the Hindu god Ganesha enjoying lamb.The TV advert, by a
YouTube star PewDiePie makes racial slur
Image copyright PA The world's highest-paid YouTube star, PewDiePie, has used the "n-word" during an online broadcast.The 27-year-old Swede - real name Felix Kjellberg - could be heard using the racial slur while he was playing a video game during
Lee Ming-che: Taiwanese activist goes on trial in China
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Selected clips of Mr Lee's trial are being posted on the Hunan court's Weibo account A Taiwanese pro-democracy activist has gone on trial in China accused of "subverting state power".Chinese authorities say Lee Ming-che
Iraqi Kurds ‘prepared to draw own borders’, Barzani warns Baghdad
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionMassoud Barzani spoke to the BBC The president of Iraqi Kurdistan has signalled it will draw the borders of a future Kurdish state if Baghdad does not accept a vote for independence
Creative currency
Image copyright Getty Images Almost 750 years ago, a young Venetian merchant named Marco Polo wrote a remarkable book chronicling his travels in China. The Book of the Marvels of the World was full of strange foreign customs that Marco
Burning villages
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWho is burning down Rohingya villages? The 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung,
‘This is absurd’
Image copyright Malcolm Turnbull Image caption This photo created much discussion in Australia on the weekend Australians have come to the defence of PM Malcolm Turnbull after a photo of him holding his grandchild and a beer became a topic