A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Woman switches to Miss Universe Nigeria after Miss South Africa row
Uproar forces Kenyan city to remove 'embarrassing' athlete statues
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The father of two brothers killed on a surfing trip to Mexico has revealed a heartbreaking, six-word confession.
Three days after a just-married Oregon nurse was reported missing, she has been found dead and police have arrested one of her neighbors.
A hiker in northern Washington’s North Cascades National Park was rescued a month after he went missing in July, authorities said Saturday and according to one rescuer, it was just in time.
Hadden Clark may not be as well known as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but the serial killer – who admitted to drinking the blood of his victims, drew caricatures of his victims and confessed his crimes to his cellmate because he looked like Jesus – is just as terrifying. Andrea Cavallier reports
Members of a well-known bikie gang have been seen snapping photos with the police as they descend on Canberra for their national meeting.
Caroline Darian also accuses father of secretly photographing her naked as he stands trial accused of aggravated rape of her mother Gisele Pelicot
Prosecutors charged a Utah man with murder Friday, alleging he killed his adult daughter, a Salt Lake City sheriff’s deputy.
The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a Georgia school shooting called to warn a school counselor prior to the shooting, the suspect’s aunt and grandfather said Saturday.
EXCLUSIVE: “I imagine the next place where they were renting didn’t allow dogs, so they just left them,” a property owner who leased a home to Colin and Marcee Gray told The Independent.
Police are investigating a new line of inquiry after a man allegedly scalded a nine-month-old baby with hot coffee during a terrifying random attack.
The killing of a Hindu boy, allegedly by his Muslim classmate, sparked religious tensions in an Indian city.
The troops stagger onto a dusty track, then onto their knees, hands placed on their heads. Seconds later, the Ukrainian drone footage shows, they lie motionless.
Caroline Darian gives evidence against father as she relives her own ordeal
Raami Mohamed, 22, was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court in June after being found guilty of killing Badri Issa during a row over a car.
A man has died after he was found lying unconscious in a street following a suspected hit and run.
Fraudster Donald McPherson was cleared of the murder of his wife Paula Leeson who died in 2017.
Ali Abulaban was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday for gunning down Ana Abulaban, 28, and Rayburn Barron, 29, at their San Diego apartment in 2021.
A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.
The indecent assault charges against the disgraced Hollywood producer in the U.K. have been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The update comes two years after Weinstein, 72, was charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London for offences allegedly committed between July and August 1996.In a statement released on Thursday, Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said, "Following a review of the evidence in this case, the CPS has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against Harvey Weinstein.”
Nearly a third of Monfalcone's residents are foreign, and the mayor says the "cultural essence" of the town is in danger.
