The number of Somalis who do not have enough to eat has risen to five million, or more than four out of ten people, due to poor rains, United Nations said with children at the greatest risk of ill-health and death.
Several Baloch and Indian activists held large-scale demonstrations outside the UN headquarters in New York while Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN General Assembly as they were joined by other groups demanding that it stop 'exporting' terror into India.
US President Barack Obama vetoed a bill allowing 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia, risking fierce public backlash and a rare congressional rebuke.
Rescuers recovered 148 bodies from a migrant boat that capsized off the Egyptian coast. Survivors said up to 450 migrants had been aboard the fishing vessel when it sank on Wednesday about 12 kilometres (eight miles) from Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Rosetta.
Nearly two million civilians were without water in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday after regime bombardment damaged one pumping station and rebels shut down another in retaliation.
Protesters block an intersection near the Transit Center as they march uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. Violent protesters rampaged through parts of downtown as anger continued to build over the deadly police shooting of a black man.
Ten jihadists and nine pro-government fighters died in clashes around the last positions of the Islamic State group in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte. Fighters of the Libyan forces affiliated to the Tripoli government rest and reload weapons during combats against ISIS in Sirte.
A gunman opened fire in a crowded mall north of Seattle, killing five people before fleeing from the spot.
North Korea opened an air festival featuring sky diving, air force demonstrations and lots of beer Saturday to promote a newly renovated and upgraded airport in the coastal city of Wonsan.
Pope Francis called for a 'sincere dialogue' between Christians and Muslims as he met grieving relatives and survivors of France's Bastille Day attack, in which a jihadist ploughed his truck into a crowd killing 84.