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A bomb blast at a site where Nigerian soccer fans had gathered to watch the World Cup has killed at least 13 people.

Chinese and Vietnamese officials meeting in Hanoi have expressed a willingness to improve ties strained by a dispute over an oil rig Beijing recently placed in contested waters off Vietnam's coast.

A young boy sits in front of a destroyed building in Homs, Syria.

Suspected militants have launched a second deadly attack in the coastal Kenyan town of Mpeketoni, where a Sunday attack killed at least 52 people.

The Pentagon has downplayed speculation about U.S. and Iranian military cooperation in Iraq, hours after Secretary of State John Kerry made the suggestion in an interview. Iran, which is controlled by Shi'ite Muslims, has been alarmed by the Sunni advance not too far from its border with Iraq. Some fear that the involvement of Iran would lead to even more violence in Iraq.

Istanbul city authorities have announced the destruction of an area containing thousands of people's homes because they say they are unsafe.

The latest Conference of Presidents was held in the EP on the 27 of May 2014, two days after the elections of the new parliament.

Young girls attend a maths class at a school in Niger's Diffa region, where more than half of the students are Nigerians who have been displaced by fighting.

Vehicles of Iraqis fleeing fighting in Mosul at the Khazair checkpoint between Ninewa governorate and the Kurdistan region.