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It just before the heads of state and government of the world’s leading industrialised nations meet in Schloss Elmau in Bavaria, 54 girls and boys aged 14 to 18 from the G7 states, some EU Member States and a number of developing countries are at the Federal Chancellery to present their ideas and demands and discuss how to solve the world’s most pressing problems with Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Youth Minister Manuela Schwesig. The young delegates of the international J7 Youth Summit have been in Berlin since 7 May to deliberate on effective ways to protect our planet, achieve greater global equality and create opportunities for all children and young people.

Children and livestock shelter in a northern Yemen camp after being displaced by fighting.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in Moscow to mark 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) can confirm an Australian citizen approached the agency in 2002 to report this matter to police and to offer his assistance.

A woman sits in the entryway of a church in Joe Blow Town, Liberia. Next to her is a plastic bucket of the chlorine solution congregants wash their hands with before entering the church to help protect themselves from Ebola.

After 42 days without new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia on May 9.

Due to a lack of fuel, electricity and wheat, few bakeries are operating in Taiz, Yemen, forcing residents to stand in long lines for bread.

UNICEF launched a Global Innovation Centre and Innovation Fund to bring to scale creative and cost-reducing approaches to better the lives of the poorest children on 7 May, 2015.