During the trial of Reeca Steenkamp's murder, Oscar Pistorius' prosthetics was asked to walk in the courtroom without his prosthetic legs in Pretoria, South Africa.
Iraqi security forces rise a national flag during house to house fighting against Islamic State militants in central Fallujah, Iraq.
Hillary Clinton captured the mostly symbolic Democratic primary Tuesday in the US capital, the final vote of the 2016 presidential primaries, as the race shifts to her showdown with Republican rival Donald Trump.
The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, who were abandoned by people smugglers while trying to reach neighbouring Algeria were found in the Sahara desert.
The authorities in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul banned an annual gay pride march planned for later this month, citing security fears. The Istanbul gay pride march had until last year been held on 12 occasions largely without incident, growing into the largest such event in a Muslim country in the Middle East with thousands taking part in a celebration of diversity.
Thai police raided a Buddhist temple complex to arrest a popular abbot accused of embezzling $40 million but were thwarted by thousands of his followers who said he is too ill to be taken into custody.
The flight data recorder of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, a day after the plane's cockpit voice recorder was also retrieved.
British police charged a reclusive gardener with murder and other offences in the slaying of a popular Labour Party lawmaker, Jo Cox, as evidence emerged the 52-year-old had decades-old ties to a neo-Nazi movement and an interest in anarchist weapons literature.
The soaring crime and economic chaos stalking Venezuela is ripping apart a once-up-and-coming school system, robbing poor students of any chance at a better life. Officially, Venezuela has canceled 16 school days since December, including Friday classes because of an energy crisis.
Orlando turned to burying its dead, with funerals for at least five of the 49 people killed in a massacre at Pulse gay nightclub -- the deadliest mass shooting in US history. Families are also being offered counseling, money for medical care and funerals, and help in getting visas for people seeking to come from abroad to claim bodies.
Russia floated out a new nuclear-powered icebreaker, said to be the world's biggest and most powerful, to be used for hauling liquefied natural gas from its Arctic terminal.
Nearly 500 Pakistani soldiers and 3,500 militants were killed during two-year long 'Operation Zarb-e-Azb' launched by the military to clear the restive tribal region of terrorists.
Pakistan has reopened a main border crossing with Afghanistan that was closed earlier this week following clashes between the two sides over Pakistan's construction of a gate to curb illegal cross-border movement.
A week of torrential rain in southern China has killed 25 people and displaced 33,200 residents, including many in China's poor, remote regions. In southeastern Jiangxi Province, people pushed cars floating in waist-high water while online footage showed vehicles swept away, as near record levels of rainfall battered southwestern China.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.