Mexico's 43 missing students: Protests held across US against President Pena Nieto's visit
People will rally against Mexican's government inaction to find 43 missing students
Peshawar massacre: Pakistan offers £65k bounty to hunt down Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah
Bounty offered weeks after deadly school attack killed dozens of children.
London: Uber taxi driver 'kicks out gay couple for kissing'
Gay couple says Uber taxi driver asked them to leave after they kissed.
Mexico missing students: Iguala mayor's wife Maria Pineda Villa charged with organised crime
Former Iguala mayor and wife believed to have ordered drug cartel to execute 43 students
India elects low caste woman Madhu Bai Kinnar as first transgender mayor
Madhu Bai Kinnar becomes first transgender person to be elected as mayor.
Papua New Guinea: Witch hunts displacing dozens as women flee villages to escape murder
Women accused of witchcraft flee their villages as they are at risk of being killed.
Nigeria Boko Haram: Parents urge UN to help find Chibok girls as 'government not able'
Parents of missing girls appeal to UN while Boko Haram's attacks continue to claim lives.
Ebola: Survivors to defeat stigma with new app and #ISurvivedEbola campaign
App launched to defeat Ebola stigma as virus killed nearly 8,000 in 2014
Antonio Martin shooting: Police release video showing 'suspect holding a weapon'
Police release CCTV footage saying suspect raised a weapon before being shot by the officer
Peru: Reclusive Mashco-Piro tribe raids Monte Salvado village for food, causing mass evacuation
Indigenous people from the Mashco-Piro tribe in Peru raided Monte Salvado village in search of food
Assam attack: Police kill five demonstrators during protest against Bodo militant raids
At least 51 people were killed in Assam,where Bodo militants carried out attack.
Qatar 2022 Fifa World Cup: One migrant worker dies every day
Hundreds of migrant workers in Qatar die every day, human rights groups warn
France migrants: 15 people died in 'unacceptable conditions' in 2014
Dozens of immigrants reach Calais every day and some continue their journey to the UK
Self-immolation death: Tibetan woman sets herself on fire in protest against Chinese rule
Self-immolation second in the area in December, activists warn.
Uganda: President Museveni receives gay animals book for Christmas over anti-homosexuality law
Gay Ugandans face seven years in prison if parliament passes anti-gay bill.
Isis: Abducted Yazidi women and girls 'kill themselves to escape sex slavery'
Amnesty's report shows Yazidi women and girls subjected to rape and torture by militants.
German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer who lived with Isis: Group plans 'mass religious cleansing'
Jürgen Todenhöfer is first Western journalist to be granted access to territories occupied by Isis.
Cambodia HIV mass infection: Unlicensed doctor charged with murder for reusing infected needles
Authorities say self-styled doctor intentionally infected people with HIV.
Isis: Germany to open trauma centre for sex slave women raped by militants
Reports have emerged that Isis militants abduct and rape hundreds of girls and women
South Sudan conflict: China to deploy troops for first time in UN mission
China to join UN mission as South Sudan's civil war continues to claim lives.
Argentina town bans beauty contests because they spread anorexia
Beauty contests are to be replaced by carnival mask competitions in town of Chivilcoy.
Peshawar attack: Seven massacre 'facilitators' arrested as they 'planned new attack'
Six men and one woman arrested as government is cracking down on terrorists after school massacre.
Jordan brings back death penalty and holds mass hanging
Eleven executed as moratorium on capital punishment ends due to high crime.
Peshawar school massacre mastermind revealed as Umar Mansoor the volleyball-loving father-of-three
Mastermind behind attack that killed 141 people identified as 36-year-old father of three.
China: Detained human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang suffers 'inhuman mental and physical torment'
Pu was detained on disturbance, inciting ethnic hatred and separatism charges.
Peshawar massacre: Dozens of Taliban militants killed in ambush days after school attack
Insurgents killed days after 148 people, of whom 132 were children, died in a Taliban attack.
Muhammad's hair relic to be delivered to Moscow for prophet's birthday celebration
The relic is believed to be part of the prophet's beard shaved by his favorite barber after his death.
Peter Kassig beheading: US 'promoted Isis and talks with top jihadi clerics' to spare man's life
Jihadi clerics vowed to stop publicly criticising IS in exchange of hostage release.
Philippines transgender killing: US Marine makes first court appearance
Joseph Pemberton is accused of having killed 19-year-old Jennifer Laude.
Isis Syria news: Militants execute top rebel commander for 'collaborating with Assad'
Isis members often execute people who don't comply with strict rules imposed in occupied areas