Some 100 African migrants managed to clamber over the fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla under heavy rain, police said, in the latest rush onto the border system.
Newly-appointed UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres vowed to work as a 'convener' and 'bridge-builder' to help find solutions to the world's pressing challenges, underscoring that human dignity, gender equality and fighting the alliance of violent extremists and expressions of xenophobia will be among his priorities.
A suicide bombing targeting a funeral gathering in northern Baghdad killed at least 35 people and left another 63 wounded.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, revered in Thailand as a demigod, a humble father figure and an anchor of stability through decades of upheaval at home and abroad, breathed his last on Thursday.
The shadow of a CH-47 Fox Chinook helicopter passes over damaged houses in southwestern Haiti, as the US military flies a delivery of rice for Hurricane Matthew relief efforts to the mountain village of Beaumont, near Jeremie, Haiti.
At least 22 people were killed and many severely injured after four residential houses collapsed in China's eastern coastal Zhejiang Province.
At least 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Shia Muslims across the world commemorated the death of Imam Hussain on Ashura, the 10th day of Muharram.