Africa
Left to drown in Venice
Onlookers apparently watched on from boats as video surfaces of African man drowning in Venice's Grand Canal.
Militants kill 28 in hotel attack
Car bomb rammed into gate before militants storm inside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
Fairy circles: mystery solved?
It is one of nature's head scratchers - the circles seen in distant deserts, but a new theory has emerged.
Suicide blast kills more than 40
Deadliest suicide bomb attack in Mali's history claims 42 lives and wounds more than 100.
At least 76 killed in air strike
At least 76 people killed in accidental Nigerian Air Force strike on a refugee camp.
Nigerian jet bombs refugee camp
More than 100 people are dead after an air force jet looking for Boko Haram extremists made a horrifying mistake.
Surviving the odds in war-torn South Sudan
Contains distressing images: Weighing just 9 kg and emaciated, four-year-old Nyajime Guet has stared death in the face.
Lions killed for medicine
South African police investigating brutal lion decapitations for medicine.
Ivory Coast calm as mutiny ends
Ivory Coast soldiers end their takeover of cities after a deal with the government.
Zuma's ex-wife given poll boost
South African President Jacob Zuma's ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma could be the country's new leader.
Soldiers open fire after mutiny
​Soldiers in Ivory Coast's Bouake have opened fire and trapped the defence minister.
Africa's next top programmer
This Kiwi entrepreneur learned Malagasy and slept in huts for a year - and all to teach African youths to code.
Teen stashed inside a suitcase
Border officials first became suspicious when they saw a woman using a trolley for just one suitcase.
Dream cars inspire home build
A man with no mechanical experience has fulfilled his childhood goal of building his dream car.
Berlin suspect's nephew arrested
Tunisia arrests three suspected militants over links to man believed to be behind Christmas market truck attack.
Plane hijacked with 118 aboard
Hijackers free all passengers and crew, then surrender, after forcing plane to fly from Libya to Malta.
Festive fake rice plan thwarted
Nigeria confiscates enormous plastic rice haul, smuggled in to feed unsuspecting families over Christmas.
Snow falls in Sahara Desert
"Everyone was stunned," amateur photographer captures rare and beautiful sight.
Face-to-face with a rhino
A group of tourists in South Africa have escaped with their lives from a furious charging rhino.
Man alive in morgue freezer for 2 days
A man spent two days alive in a morgue freezer only to die hours after he was discovered still breathing.
Vintage planes in 13,000km adventure
They survived detention in Ethiopia, an emergency landing in Kenya and the two day disappearance of a retiree.
Supermoon time again
We've been spoilt with three consecutive supermoons, but now the next one is a year away.
Explosives tied to Egypt crash
Did a bomb bring it down? Air accident investigators say traces of explosives found on victims of an Egyptair flight.
Cairo blast leaves 25 dead
Dozens dead and 49 injured after a bombing during Sunday mass targeting Christians.
Church collapse kills at least 160
Morgues are overflowing in Nigeria and the death toll is expected to rise after a church fell down.
Doctors in organ trade bust
45 people arrested as Egypt uncovers a network accused of illicit international trafficking in human organs.
Psychiatric patients run amok
More than 80 patients escaped from a Kenyan hospital during a nationwide strike by health workers over working conditions.
MH370 families offer reward for debris
Anyone finding debris from doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could receive a financial reward, victims' families say.
Real visas, fake US embassy
How did a sham embassy in Ghana issue authentic US visas and birth certificates for a decade?
