Israel announces a plan to construct a new settlement in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) that will purportedly accommodate as many settlers as are currently housed in the city.

At least 27 people are killed in a plane crash in a densely populated neighborhood in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Protesters in two towns in northern Greece take to the streets to rally against the transfer of migrants from the Greek islands to sites on the mainland.

More than 16,000 scared residents have fled an unrest-hit city in Indonesia's Papua region, the military says.

An Indonesian environmental activist is doing a unique work to raise awareness about deforestation.

The critters swarmed the US city of Las Vegas last week and their impact does not seem to lessen, despite hundreds of thousands of the insects lying dead in the streets as footage shot on Sunday shows.

Gunmen kill 34 people in Nigeria's northern Zamfara State, where criminal gangs have been terrorizing remote villages, police say.

At least 43 people have been killed after gunmen, riding motorbikes, attacked villages in northern Nigeria.

Members of Boko Haram have carried out multiple attacks on military bases in northeast Nigeria, seizing three of them and stealing weapons.

A strong 8.0-earthquake has struck northern Peru, killing at least one person.