Colombia's constitutional court makes a historic ruling, China blocks U.S. Navy vessels from Hong Kong and a weasel shuts down the Hadron Collider.
A Syrian government airstrike on a pediatric hospital in Aleppo symbolizes Syria's steady return to all-out war after a February ceasefire.
Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea have launched more than 40 attacks this year, including an increasing number of kidnappings against international seamen.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa weighs emergency measures to pay for a multi-billion dollar recovery effort, and the U.N. says more than 60 million are affected by the ongoing El Niño cycle.
Rodrigo Duterte is enraging his opponents and stirring up controversy, but he's sitting pretty in the polls.
The United States and more than 170 other countries sign on to the 2015 Paris climate change agreement during a New York ceremony.
The British group 'Republic' is marking Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday by repeating its call to abolish the monarchy and create a new, elected head of state.
Reformers had hoped a major UN General Summit would see meaningful progress made to ending the war on drugs.
South Sudan's unity government isn't uniting as planned, and Russians are now spending 50.1 percent of their income on groceries.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vows to fight an impeachment push against her, and opposition groups back out of Syrian peace talks, citing a government military offensive.
Political pressure from Turkish President Recep Erdogan has convinced Angela Merkel to charge a German citizen for insulting the foreign leader in a satirical video.
A US Navy missile destroyer patrolling North of Poland has reported dozens of close Russian fly-bys in recent days.
As Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faces impeachment, a leaked voice memo from her vice president is casting doubts on her political fortunes.
Warring parties in Yemen tentatively lower their weapons, but aid groups say much more is needed to remedy widespread civilian strife
Egypt and Saudi Arabia announce plans for a new bridge to connect them across the Red Sea and Pope Francis clarifies church doctrine on the family
Venezuela shortens its work week to cope with power outages, and Wikileaks says outlets reporting on the Panama Papers are being too respectful of the privacy of Mossack Fonseca's clients.
China ratchets up the pressure on North Korea, and Iceland and Brazil see leadership changes amid Panama Papers, corruption probes.
Ahead of a key U.N. summit on drugs, activists say China and Russia are pursuing the wrong strategies for fighting drug abuse, and forcing the rest of the world to accommodate them.
Fighting flares up between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A U.N.-backed Libyan government arrives in Tripoli to begin work, and Belgium plans to ask those moving to the country to sign a "newcomers agreement."
El Salvador is facing an unprecedented surge in gang violence, prompting the government to seek new laws regulating prisons.
The global community fell far short of a 302,000 person resettlement goal set by the United Nations.
New laws reinterpreting Japan's 1946 constitution signal the dawn of a new era for the country's armed forces, and the World Health Organization ends its global Ebola warning.
A major U.N. meeting in April on the global drug program was supposed to embrace innovative new approaches, but more than 180 civil society groups say closed door negotiations in Vienna excluded post-prohibition ideas.
Data on new asylum seekers arriving in Greece disprove the stereotype that the overwhelming majority of migrants are men.