Giant waves, cyclone-strength winds and torrential rain swept three people to their deaths on Australia's east coast after the storm forced hundreds to flee their homes.
Deep underground on a lush green island, Finland is preparing to bury its highly-radioactive nuclear waste for 100,000 years -- sealing it up and maybe even throwing away the key.
The Louvre and the Orsay, the premier museums of Paris, have reopened after an emergency closure last week to move masterpieces to higher ground during the city's worst flooding in decades.
The parents of a toddler who fell into a gorilla enclosure at a US zoo -- leading the animal to be shot -- will not face charges, a prosecutor said, closing the probe into an incident that transfixed the nation.
The bodies of 133 migrants have washed up on the shore at the western Libyan city of Zuwara in recent days. No documents were found with the bodies, which were partly decomposed, but they were mainly sub-Saharan Africans.
A car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police during rush hour traffic in Istanbul has killed 11 people and wounded 36 others. The blast occurred on a busy intersection near an Istanbul University building, forcing officials to cancel exams.
After nearly four years of siege, first food deliveries have reached the Damascus rebel suburb of Daraya but government airstrikes were holding up the distribution of the aid.
By year-end, Sri Lanka will resettle all people, including the minority Muslims and the Sinhalese, who were displaced during the nearly three-decade-long war against the LTTE.
South Korean military vessels started an operation to repel Chinese fishing boats illegally harvesting prized blue crabs from an area near Seoul's disputed sea boundary with North Korea.
China marked the start of Ramzan with its customary ban on civil servants, students and children in a mainly-Muslim region from taking part in fasting, government websites said as the holy month started.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.