The Austrian parliament adopted one of Europe's toughest asylum laws, as the country's political leaders struggle to halt the surging far-right which is leading in presidential polls.
Maalbeek metro station in Brussels hit by a suicide attack last month that killed 16 people reopened to passengers.
Thousands of junior doctors posted picket lines outside hospitals around England in the first all-out strike in the history of Britain's National Health Service. The two-day strike marks the first time that vital NHS emergency services have been affected by an industrial action.
Fridges zapped off in kitchens across Venezuela as the government turned off the electricity supply to help ease a power shortage that is worsening the country's economic crisis.
United States borrowed an Israeli military tactic known as 'roof knocking' to try to warn civilians before it dropped a bomb targeting Islamic State fighters in Iraq this month, but a woman was killed in the attack.
Barack Obama said that US can meet the goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by September 30, the end of the federal budget year.
A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors. The contested city is now one of the main battlegrounds of Syria's devastating civil war, with a cease-fire that has collapsed and peace talks in Geneva stalled.
Nepal's prime minister joined Buddhist monks at a prayer ceremony to mark the start of rebuilding of five ancient monuments destroyed in an earthquake that killed thousands and devastated the country's rich cultural heritage.
The organiser of a party, which saw a fireball rip through a Taiwan waterpark leaving 15 dead last year, was found guilty of negligence on Tuesday and jailed for almost five years, as the court paid tribute to the 'excruciating pain and torment' of the bereaved.
Eleven giant pyres of tusks were set on fire as Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants.
Belgium said that more 'terrorist fighters' want to return to Europe from Syria to carry out further attacks, a month after suicide bombings in Brussels killed 32 people.
A car-bombing in south eastern Baghdad killed at least 23 people wounded at least 42 others. The attack targeted Shiite pilgrims walking to Baghdad's holy Kadhimiyah shrine and was claimed by the Islamic State group.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.