Known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, Ruth Pfau devoted her life to combatting leprosy in Pakistan
Central Turku in Finland was on lock down following multiple stabbing that killed two and wounded six in the Market Square early Friday
Fourteen people were killed and more than 100 injured on the famous Las Ramblas when a suspected terrorist ploughed a rented van through crowds of tourists.
Hundreds of people marched peacefully with lit candles across the University of Virginia campus on 16 August, 2017, in Charlottesville
Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured after a van veered onto a promenade Thursday and barreled down the busy walkway in central Barcelona, swerving back and forth as it mowed pedestrians down and turned a picturesque tourist destination into a bloody killing zone.
Senator Pauline Hanson, bottom left, wears a burqa during question time in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Thursday.
Even as the Charlottesville violence continues to cause political upheaval in the US, various confederate monuments have been vandalised across the country
400 people, including at least 60 children, were killed following the collapse of a hillside in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown
A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville
At least 41 people were killed as two trains collided on Friday outside the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in Egypt.
Kenya nervously awaited the final results of its presidential election, with the incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta holding a strong lead after a vote marred by opposition claims of rigging and the death of several people
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday began a defiant roadshow from Islamabad to Lahore
At least 12 people were killed and 175 injured when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck in China's Sichaun province, however the toll was expected to climb.
Hundreds of people on Saturday celebrated Monsoon Holi festival in Madrid, Spain
Two murals showing an oversized US president Donald Trump appeared on Israel's West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year
Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometers, one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months of high activity
A wave of bloodshed swept Venezuela as troops cracked down on violent protests against elections to choose the members of a powerful assembly, that president Nicolas Maduro has tasked with writing a new constitution
Chinese president Xi Jinping on Sunday inspected a massive military parade at the country's largest military base in Zhurihe in Inner Mongolia as part of the celebrations to mark the 90th founding anniversary of the 2.3 million-strong People's Liberation Army (PLA)
A car bomb blast near a police station in Somalia's capital on Sunday killed at least five people and wounded at least 13 others
The seventh meeting of BRICS senior representatives on security issues was held in Beijing on 27-28 August attended by NSAs from member countries
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered prime minister Nawaz Sharif to step down and ruled that graft cases be filed against him and his children over the Panama Papers scandal.
Most of the casualties in the suicide attack in Kabul were civilians, including women and children, but the dead also included Afghan security guards
A powerful suicide blast near residence-cum-office of Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif in Pakistan's Lahore city on Monday killed at least 20 people, including policemen, and wounded 30 others
Eight people were found dead Sunday in a truck in a parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent people trafficking case, authorities said.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau attended the 10th anniversary of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto
Thousands of people are protesting across Poland against government's plan to put the judicial system under its political control
Dozens more were injured in Greece and Turkey when a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook the popular summer resort holiday destinations
According to WHO, increasing power cuts and fuel shortages are creating an impending health crisis in 14 public hospitals of Gaza, threatening the closure of essential health services.
Prince William and his wife Kate began a three-day visit to Germany on Wednesday billed as a "charm offensive" by local media as Britain begins thorny Brexit talks in earnest
More than 7 million Venezuelans voted in Sunday's unofficial referendum held by the opposition to heap pressure on President Nicolas Maduro and repudiate his plan to rewrite the OPEC nation's constitution, monitors said