$2.1bn needed to avoid catastrophic famine in war-torn Yemen
3.3 million people - including 2.1 million children - have been left starving by Yemen's two-year-long conflict.
Isis attack in Afghanistan kills six Red Cross workers
The group of Red Cross workers were attacked by Islamic State in Jowzjan province.
Francois Fillon scandal: Wife paid €45,000 in severance as Marine Le Pen rival hit by fresh revelations
The money paid to Penelope Fillon was given in addition to €830,000 she was paid as an aid.
Somalia elects a president - Here are 5 things you need to know
MPs and Senators will elect new president amid a security and corruption crisis and looming famine.
Five terror attacks the Trump administration (presumably) thinks did get enough coverage
The White House has released a list of 78 attacks which took place from September 2014 to December 2016.
Suicide bomber kills 19 in blast targeting Kabul judiciary in Afghanistan
The attacker, wearing a suicide vest, targeted the court employees as they were leaving a building in Kabul.
Syria: President Bashar al-Assad says Donald Trump shows promise
Assad, who is backed by Moscow and Tehran, believes he can work with the Trump administration.
Palestinians decry 'theft of land' as thousands of West Bank settlements legalised
Under the controversial law houses built illegally on privately owned Palestinian land will be legalised.
President Duterte restarts bloody war against Maoist rebels
Tentative peace in the Philippines deteriorated after communist forces killed six soldiers.
Iranian arms flood into Yemen as US and Islamic Republic square off over the Middle East
The increased build-up of arms in the country threatens to prolong Yemen's 19-month-long proxy war.
President Trump tweets US needs to 'get smart' to terrorists after Louvre attack
The US president has repeatedly commented on attacks in France in relation to security in America.
Philippines' Duterte vows no peace with Maoist rebels, tells troops to be ready to fight
The New People's Army (NPA) killed seven Filipino troops prior to Duterte's call to arms.
Attack at the Louvre: French soldier opens fire on machete-wielding assailant
French media reports shots were fired in the 'Carousel' area beneath the Louvre's iconic glass pyramid.
Francois Fillon, favourite to defeat Marine Le Pen, found to have paid two children as aides
As scandal mounts around the front-runner more allegations have emerged.
US basketball players in Iran league fear Islamic Republic's retaliation for Trump travel ban
In the wake of Trump's travel ban to Muslim nations, the Islamic Republic has promised retaliation.
Philippines police and hitmen payed $1000s to wage Duterte's drug war on the poor
Human Rights group has said the incentives to kill drug dealers and users has created an "economy of murder".
European Union President Donald Tusk: 'Unpredictable' Trump is a threat to the EU
In a letter to the EU leaders Tusk has fired a shot across the bow of the new US administration.
Donald Tusk's letter to 27 EU heads of state about Trump administration in full
The President of the European Council has said changes in Washington put EU in a difficult situation.
At least one killed and two injured after gunman opens fire in Istanbul restaurant
Initial reports have claimed the gunman targeted an individual diner because of a family feud.
Iraq parliament votes in favour of US ban in response to Trump travel restrictions
The vote in Iraqi parliament asks the government in Baghdad to retaliate against Trump's executive order.
8-year-old Yemeni girl 'shot in neck' and dies in Trump's first foreign operation
The girl's father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a US-born al-Qaeda preacher killed in a US drone strike in 2011.
Former Yahya Jammeh minister arrested in Switzerland for crimes against humanity
Ousman Sonko arrested as Gambia welcomed arrival of Jammeh's successor, Adama Barrow.
Israel to accept 100 Syrian children orphaned by war
While Israel is technically at war with Syria the country will accept 100 orphans who will most likely be adopted or fostered.
What is waterboarding, the 'enhanced' interrogation technique Trump wants to bring back?
The effect of the flowing water simulates the effect of drowning so that the subject feels like they will die.
French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon faces investigation over €500,000 payments to wife
Fillon's wife Penelope was paid £430,000 over a course of eight years from parliamentary funds.
Six quotes that show 2017 is already George Orwell's 1984
George Orwell's 1984 is most popular selling book on Amazon but there was already dystopia in 2017.
George Orwell's 1984 tops Amazon bestsellers following Trump's inauguration
The dystopian novel, written in 1948, portrays a government which manipulates facts and hides the truth.
Massive explosion at Somali hotel as al-Shabaab storm building in suicide bomb attack
The al-Qaeda linked group entered the Dayah Hotel after a suicide car bomber rammed the building's front gates.
Russia and Turkey agree to ceasefire in Syria but rebel leaders refuse to deal with Iran
The opposition clashed with intemediaries over the inclusion of Iran in the talks which it says is a combatant.
Battle for Mosul: Despite 100 days of bloodshed, 750,000 civilians still at 'extreme risk' from Isis
UN has warned 750,000 are in direct danger as the Iraqi army prepares its assault on Mosul.
