Homosexuality is illegal in 37 African countries, and Uganda has some of the strictest anti-gay laws.
IBTimes UK meets Burundians who fled their country to Rwanda to avoid persecution.
Anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, began with a solemn march in his honour and ended in chaotic scenes.
To mark the special UN day for indigenous people, we take a look at some of the groups.
Utoya hosts the first summer camp since Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people in 2011.
This year's festival sees the maiden flight of the world's first solar-hybrid balloon.
Photographer Alexandre Meneghini has documented daily life on the island of Cuba over the past year.
A new Instagram feed offers international viewers a broad look at life inside China.
Michael Brown's death sparked months of sometimes violent protests and spurred the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
Swincar E-Spider's independent suspension on each wheel keeps the vehicle upright even on uneven terrain.
Thousands of migrants from Syria and Iraq travel through Turkey into Greece, heading for the EU.
The village of Shipkovica is described as looking 'as if a huge tsunami has gone through it'.
Water in which swimmers and sailors will compete contains levels of viruses roughly equivalent to raw sewage.
Not all of the migrants in Calais are trying to reach Britain. Many have set up home in the camp in Calais.
Residents of capital Bujumbura in East African country claim barricades protect them from police violence.
On 6 August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by one on Nagasaki.
Earliest example of reproduction in a complex organism discovered in 565-million-year-old fossil.
An underwater photograph of divers swimming near a humpback whale has won the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers reach remote flooded areas in Myanmar.
Fires raging across California have killed a firefighter, burned two dozen homes and forced thousands to flee.
Swedish photographer Jonas Gratzer has been named Photographer of the Year by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand.
Singer and presenter whose career spanned over 50 years, who fronted TV programmes Blind Date and Surprise Surprise, has died at the age of 72.
Aunt Leolah Brown launched into an angry tirade and had to be ejected from the funeral service.
It is the 25th anniversary of the war between a US-led coalition and Saddam's Iraq.
Refugees fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East continue to try to reach Britain despite police efforts.
Jewish settlers clash with border police as two apartment blocks in the occupied West Bank are demolished.
First observed in the 70s, there are almost 4,000 sinkholes along the shores of the salty sea today.
A dense layer of ivy covers the houses in the abandoned fishing village on a Chinese island.
Thousands of migrants in Calais are trying to reach England from France 'at all costs'.
The Shanghai Tower will be the world's second-tallest building when it opens later in 2015.