FEATURE-Florida LGBT rights push reflects changing times
The nation's third most-populous state, Florida could offer the next breakthrough in a national movement to advance LGBT civil-rights protections
Islamic State attack kills at least 38 in northeast Syria -monitor
Attack on Rajm al-Salibi, location of checkpoint and refugee camp near border with Iraq, has led to fierce clashes, injuring dozens
Acute malnutrition surges in Somali children -UNICEF
Some 1.4 mln children in drought-hit Somalia are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, 50 percent more than estimated
Ancient mummies rot as Yemen war vexes even the dead
Ancient mummies are withering away in a major museum for lack of electricity and preservative chemicals from abroad
May Day rallies across U.S. target Trump immigration policy
"The messaging for today was to stop to financing immigrant detention facilities"
Without school, children of Mosul feared lost to poverty and conflict
Thousands of children orphaned or left homeless by the war on Islamic State are forced to work to support their families in Mosul
Mineral-rich area of Papua New Guinea lifts decades-old ban on new mining
Bougainville has a troubled history over resource development, with conflict erupting in the 80s stoked by dissatisfaction in how benefits from a copper mine were distributed
Sri Lanka intercepts boat carrying 30 Rohingya refugees
Tens of thousands Muslim Rohingya have fled mostly Buddhist Myanmar since 2012
Rights group accuses Syria of several likely nerve agent attacks
"The pattern shows that the Syrian government retained sarin or some similar nerve agent"
WIDER IMAGE-Life in California's largest immigration detention center
"I see people trying to stay here, fight their case for two, three, four years, more than four years"