Inmates convicted of murder and theft are being offered an incentive to behave.
The death toll is expected to rise after a powerful earthquake struck a remote area of north-eastern Afghanistan.
Indigenous peoples from Brazil, as well as native people from Asia and North America, are competing in the first World Indigenous Games.
Shia Muslims beat their heads and chests with chains and knives, and gash their heads with swords.
Police fire stun grenades at students outside President Jacob Zuma's offices in Pretoria.
About 700 refugees and migrants had been living in the empty Lycee Jean-Quarre building.
India is celebrating the Hindu festival of Dussehra, signifying the triumph of good over evil.
Many camping in the open are families with children waiting to travel into EU.
IBTimesUK presents a gallery of celebrations held during the nine-day Hindu Navratri festival, leading up to Dussehra.
JR is known chiefly for his enormous black-and-white close-up portraits pasted on walls around the world.
Thousands of migrants and refugees are stranded in worsening weather after Hungary sealed its borders with Serbia and Croatia.
Climate change can be good for some species but which will be the winners?
Under blue skies and unrelenting sunshine, solar-powered cars are racing across Australia.
In their book Africa On Safari, Kym and Tonya Illman reveal how they captured their wildlife photos.
Devotees pierce both cheeks and thread skewers through the holes. Some go a bit further.
Thousands of migrants and refugees were stranded at Croatia's borders with Slovenia and Serbia.
Hungary is sealing its border with Croatia to stem the flow of thousands of migrants and refugees arriving daily.
From a safe distance, IBTimes UK takes a look at the bruising action at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Israelis are stocking up on guns and taking self-defence lessons, while shops are running out of pepper spray.
Seven bodies, including one of a baby, were pulled from the sea after the collision.
Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse photographs the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson knocking over a 10-year-old boy during a rugby game and other funny photos.
The remains of Maria Goretti, one of youngest saints in in the Catholic Church, are on a tour of the United States.
Australian high school teacher and former beekeeper captures dandelion pollen grains on a honey bee's eye.
Israel begins sealing Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem after wave of deadly attacks.
Bloody photo of a fight between a red fox and an Arctic fox wins this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Journalists fell silent as the reassembled wreckage, much of it twisted and riddled with holes, was presented.
These photos of Australia taken by Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly look like abstract paintings.
Indigenous Americans says Columbus Day ignores a history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land grabs.
Photographs of the ghost town of Pripyat abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.