A surge in migrants from Africa threatens the European Union's living standards and social structure, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, adding that the bloc was unable to take in millions of people seeking a new life.
Texas police on Sunday were trying to figure out what prompted a black teenager to drive his car into a car dealership, and why a white police officer still in training fatally shot the unarmed 19-year-old four times.
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has promised to keep the Indian Ocean a "demilitarized zone". Yameen gave this assurance in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was delivered by visiting Maldivian foreign secretary Ali Naseer Mohamed to foreign minister Sushma Swaraj this week.
China's rural areas have over 61 million "left behind" children with a "motherless village" accounting for 132 abandoned kids, highlighting the plight as they are neglected by their parents in pursuit of jobs in cities, even as reports said girls living in such conditions are most vulnerable to sexual offences.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed scrapping top government posts and privileges on Sunday in an ambitious reform drive sparked by swelling popular anger over corruption and poor governance.