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Malian refugees in Niger.

Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings struck Shi'ite neighborhoods, security forces and other targets across the country Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores of others. At least eight cities and towns were hit.

Kairat Umarov , Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

At its most recent peak of drought, famine and conflict, the UN refugee agency reported that more than 135,000 Somalis had fled their homes with a quarter of Somalia’s 7.5 million people estimated to be either internally displaced or living outside the country as refugees.

The crisis in Syria was again at the top of world leaders’ agendas Friday during the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate.

This courtroom sketch shows Nakoula Basseley Nakoula talking with his attorney Steven Seiden, left, as U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal presides over the proceeding in Los Angeles, California, September 27, 2012.

China has published an expensive, two-page color advertisement in a prominent U.S. newspaper, defending its claim to disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Joseph Kabila Kabange, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses the General Assembly.