Girls worldwide take over as ministers, CEOs in campaign to push for equality
The International Day of the Girl Child, which takes place on Oct. 11 every year, is a UN initiative to recognise the rights of the 1.1 billion girls around the world and the challenges they face
Central African Republic, Chad, Zambia top global hunger index
"We have the technology, knowledge and resources to achieve (zero hunger). What is missing is both the urgency and the political will to turn commitments into action"
Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders' homes, not prisons
Some women say they are treated like slaves in detention
One girl under 15 married every seven seconds, says Save the Children
Girls as young as 10 married off - often to much older men - in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia
Host families struggle to help thousands who have fled Afghanistan's Kunduz
Afghanistan already has more than 1.2 million internal refugees, with 260,000 forced to flee their homes across the country this year
France demands Britain take in Calais migrant children
Red Cross accused Britain on Sunday of leaving hundreds of young children with the right to join family in Britain in limbo
Anger as fighting in Afghan city Kunduz forces people to flee
"There is blood and dead bodies everywhere in Kunduz. Our young people are dying and the government hasn't done anything for us"
EU launches joint border guard to keep migrants out
The new border force is designed to deploy quickly to any location on the bloc's frontiers to prevent an uncontrolled influx of migrants
Shots fired at centre where France wants to rehouse Calais migrants
Housing minister calls the attack "an act of extreme racism"