Myanmar forces may be guilty of genocide against Rohingya, UN says
Top UN rights official says none of the 626,000 Rohingya who have fled violence since August should be repatriated to Myanmar without robust monitoring on the ground.
Hunger gnaws at Rohingya children in Bangladesh's refugee camps
Nearly a quarter of all the Rohingya refugee children in the Bangladeshi camps aged between six months and five years are malnourished
Congo will be Africa’s mega-crisis in 2018
Mounting political instability and a massive humanitarian crisis are set to collide next year in DRC, creating a mega-crisis on the continent
A fire crew passes a burning home during a wind-driven wildfire in Ventura, California
A fire crew passes a burning home during a wind-driven wildfire in Ventura, California, U.S., December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Cake fights stir up gay rights debate in US and N.Ireland
"If the civil rights laws can be evaded that easily, then they really become meaningless in many circumstances and that takes us down a very dangerous and hurtful path"
Toxic air puts 17 million babies' brains and lungs at risk - UNICEF
Air pollution is closely associated with asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory infections
U.N. pushing sharp increase in migrant returns from Libya
Acceleration of returns is an attempt to ease severe overcrowding in detention centres
Bus bomb kills eight in Syria's Homs city -state media
Many of the passengers were university students
Pivotal U.S. Justice Kennedy poses tough questions in gay wedding case
The case highlights tensions between gay rights proponents and conservative Christians who oppose same-sex marriage
Rescued from Libya, jobless Senegalese migrants likely to return
Senegal has some of the highest numbers of young men who get trafficked, imprisoned and sold in lawless Libya while trying to reach Europe