A Somali refugee was critically injured when she set herself on fire at an Australian immigration camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru three days after an Iranian refugee died of injuries sustained in a similar apparent protest.
London's new mayor Sadiq Khan has gone from a public housing estate in the British capital to running the city, a remarkable rise for the Pakistani immigrant bus driver's son. The 45-year-old, a former human rights lawyer and an opposition Labour lawmaker, was swept into City Hall on 57 percent of the vote, becoming the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital in the process.
US State Department has defended their decision to sell F-16 aircraft to Pakistan saying that the planes were being used in counter-terrorism operations by the country. (Photo: AP)
Nearly all of Detroit's public schools were closed after the teachers union urged members to call out sick following a weekend announcement that the district wouldn't be able to pay its teachers starting this summer.
Canadian officials began evacuating 8,000 people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray by air and hoped to move thousands more via a highway convoy if it is safe from a massive wildfire raging in Alberta that has grown to 85,000 hectares (210,035 acres).
A double bomb attack in central Syria killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 40 others. The area, controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, is located between the cities of Homs and Palmyra, which was recaptured by the Syrian army from jihadists last month.
Russia's defence ministry said that a temporary truce in the Syrian battleground city of Aleppo has been extended for 72 hours in order to prevent the situation from worsening'.
Around 400 people gathered in Hong Kong to protest a veteran newspaper editor's dismissal that triggered concerns about press freedom in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
North Korea staged its most important political show for a generation, aimed at cementing the absolute rule of leader Kim Jong-Un and underlining the sanctions-hit country's prestige' as a nuclear power.
A Chinese province with large population of Muslims has ordered kindergartens to enforce a ban on religious activity on campus after a video of a little girl reciting the Quran at a nursery school went viral.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.