France's first international-standard refugee camp opened despite opposition from Paris but the central government's local representative raised safety concerns that could suspend its operations.
A UN report describing sweeping crimes like children and the disabled being burned alive and fighters being allowed to rape women as payment shows South Sudan is facing \"one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world,\" the UN human rights chief said.
The Arab League labelled Shia Muslim group Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, Egyptian state media said, as tensions rise between Sunni and Shia powers across the Middle East.
A shooting at a backyard party in the town of Wilkinsburg in the US state of Pennsylvania has left five people dead, and at least two suspects are on the loose, police said.
UN Security Council has adopted a resolution that calls for the repatriation of entire peacekeeping units whose soldiers face allegations of sexual abuse while serving under the UN flag. It was the first time that the council has approved measures to address the rise in troubling allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers deployed worldwide to protect civilians in conflict.
Iran reportedly test-fired two ballistic missiles with the phrase \"Israel must be wiped out\" written on them, a show of force by the Islamic Republic as US Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel.
Iranian women deputies sued a conservative male colleague, Nader Ghazipour, after he declared in a video that parliament was no place for \"donkeys and women\". Ghazipour's comments during an election campaign meeting last month have gone viral on social media.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution, as South Korean and US forces conducted massive war games. North Korea has a large stockpile of short-range missiles and is developing long-range and intercontinental missiles as well.
A piece of debris found in Mozambique arrived in Malaysia for initial investigations into whether it came from missing flight MH370 before being taken to Australia for deeper analysis, officials said. MH370 was carrying 239 passengers and crew when it vanished on March 8, 2014 on an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 17 people and injured 23 in northwest Pakistan in an attack which the Taliban said was revenge for the hanging of an Islamist assassin last week. Pakistani Taliban's Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction said it avenged the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, feted as a hero by Islamists after he gunned down the liberal governor of Punjab in 2011 over a call to reform the country's blasphemy law.
Pakistan sent a 'memorandum' to India to expedite the release of fishermen held in the two countries as agreed to between prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his counterpart Narendra Modi during their meeting in Ufa last year.
Schools were ordered shut, flights suspended and the stock market was closed down in the United Arab Emirates as rare heavy rain hit the desert Gulf state. The country's annual rainfall stands at 78 millimetres (three inches), more than 15 times less than the amount for an average year in Britain.
Hardline Islamist groups in Bangladesh threatened large-scale protests if a court moves to scrap Islam as the official state religion of the Muslim-majority nation.The High Court is considering a petition by secularists who say Islam's status as the state religion conflicts with Bangladesh's secular charter and discriminates against non-Muslims.
French air accident investigators breifed relatives of the people killed in last year's Germanwings crash on the results of their investigation. They have established that the co-pilot of Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane into a French mountainside last March 24, killing 150 people. Lubitz had previously been treated for depression.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week