Israel has declared a state of emergency in the central city of Lod after rioting by Israeli Arabs, as conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants intensified.
A blogger and former Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana, Craig Murray has been sentenced to eight months in jail for “abhorrent” contempt of court over his coverage of the Alex Salmond trial.
Former US President Donald Trump has launched a new "communications" website, which says it will publish content "straight from the desk" of the former US president.
The Zulu royal family in South Africa has announced the death of its monarch Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu just a month after she became regent.
The UN children's agency Unicef will redistribute to other countries more than a million doses of vaccines meant for the Democratic Republic of Congo so that they don't expire.
As hospitals in Delhi and many other cities run out of beds, people have been forced to find ways to get treatment for sick patients at home. Many have turned to the black market, where prices of essential medicines, oxygen cylinders and concentrators have skyrocketed and questionable drugs are now proliferating.
Malawi has said it will go ahead and destroy more than 16,000 doses of expired Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines despite the World Health Organization (WHO) advising against it.
