World Health Organisation says a new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Liberia, days after saying the outbreak no longer qualifies as an international health emergency.
More than 100 victims have come forward in the Central African Republic with appalling new accounts of sexual abuse, including bestiality, by UN peacekeepers and French troops, said United Nations.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a successful test of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its state media said in the latest claim of making advances in its arms programme that has brought UN sanctions.
Russian aviation investigators said that the pilots of a Flydubai jet that crashed and killed 62 last month put the plane into a nose-dive and were unable to pull out of it. The Boeing 737 flying from Dubai crashed short of the runway in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in the early hours of March 19 after it aborted a landing in poor weather. The 55 passengers, most of them Russians, and seven crew members were all killed.
Greece deported a second batch of more than 200 migrants to Turkey under a controversial EU deal to stem mass migration as Germany announced a sharp drop in asylum claims. Greek officials said two boats carrying 124 migrants, most of them Pakistani men, had been sent back across the Aegean Sea where hundreds have lost their lives in a quest to reach Europe.
US is poised to sell state of the art thermal weapon sights and spares to Pakistan, in the wake of Obama administration's decision to provide eight F-16 fighter jets and nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters worth USD 170 million to the country.
Western leaders pledged to crack down on tax dodges by the rich and powerful amid a mushrooming scandal provoked by revelations of a web of Panama-based offshore financial dealings. Mossack Fonseca specialises in setting up offshore companies, used to shelter finances of politicians and public figures around the world.
India and Saudi Arabia decided to ramp up their counter-terrorism cooperation as they asked all states to dismantle terror infrastructures where they happen to exist' and reject the use of terrorism against other countries, seen as an oblique reference to Pakistan.
Syrian soldiers celebrate after taking control of Qaryatain near the central city of Homs, Syria. Al-Qaryatain was once viewed as a symbol of tolerance where Christian and Muslim communities had lived together for centuries, but when the extremist fighters of IS arrived last August all that changed.
The controversy-hit USD 1.5 billion Colombo Port City Project funded by China will be accorded special status of a financial and business district' with laws of its own. The ambitious project to be built on 583 acres of reclaimed land has raised concerns in India over its proximity to the Indian coast. It is Sri Lanka's biggest foreign investment project.
Twenty million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply. Bangladesh had failed to take the basic steps needed to tackle the problem, which kills an estimated 43,000 Bangladeshis every year, mostly in poor rural areas.
Trapped for three days, a woman and her two sons were safely pulled out of the rubble of a house that had collapsed after a landslide hit a village in northwest Pakistan. Heavy rains over the weekend have killed over 92 people.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.