Disaster aid bill worth $19.1 bln blocked again in U.S. House
Lawmakers have been haggling over the bill in response to hurricanes in the southeastern United States, severe flooding in the Midwest, devastating wildfires in California and other events
FACTBOX - From marriage to murder, one in four robbed of childhood globally
About one in four of the 2.3 billion children under the age of 18 have been robbed of their childhoods by child marriage, early pregnancy, exclusion from education, sickness and malnutrition
East Congo villagers kill Ebola health worker, loot clinic
Attacks on treatment centres by armed groups and by mistrust among residents, have become major impediments to containing Congo's worst ever Ebola outbreak
U.S. presidential hopeful Harris to unveil plan to protect abortion rights
Kamala Harris joins fellow White House hopefuls in pushing back against Republican-backed state laws that restrict a woman's right to end a pregnancy
Bangladesh to charge 16 over murder of teenager burned to death
Nusrat Jahan was 18 when she was set on fire after she refused to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher
Rights group accuses Egyptian forces of war crimes in Sinai
An Egyptian military spokesman denied the report, saying it was based on undocumented sources
OPINION: Myanmar is confiscating land that people depend on
The government’s intention is to put more land to productive economic use, but much of the land is not in fact vacant
OPINION: Ebola patients are human beings not biosecurity threats
Behind every Ebola 'case' are real people that are afraid. It will not be possible to end this outbreak without building the trust of those affected.
Northwest Nigeria violence drives 20,000 into Niger -UNHCR
Military, police and state security forces have been deployed to northwest Nigeria in recent months to tackle criminal gangs behind a spate of killings and kidnappings
WHO sees high risk as polio breaks out in Central African Republic
The cases, reported to WHO on May 24, were caused by 'vaccine-derived' polio rather than the wild type of the virus that still circulates in Pakistan and Afghanistan.