Under the microscope : FBI zeroes in woman who was fulcrum of Jeffrey Epstein's scandal

Ghislaine Maxwell: Socialite and youngest child of late publishing mogul Robert Maxwell

Southern Africa hit by Cyclone Idai

The smuggling grandmother : Ivory queen goes to jail

Yang Feng Glan, 69, smuggled two tonnes of ivory worth £1.7 million from Tanzania to China

Strange : Nigerian president denies being a clone

Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari has rejected the suggestion that it is a clone of his real self that is presiding over the affairs of the African country

Joy of the whole earth : Brazil moves its embassy to Israel's eternal capital

Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has announced that he will move the country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Billionaire stolen at dawn by gunmen

Mohammed Dewji, 43, is Africa’s youngest billionaire

Now that Hezbollah possesses missiles

President Weah features for Liberia in soccer match

George Weah has become the first head of state in history to play for his country while in office

Nigerian military disgraced by Boko Haram

Controversial philanderer and wife go their separate ways

The marriage of immediate past British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has collapsed

Iran dares Israel : Islamic Republic's Middle East manoeuvres

Merkel hosts Putin at Brandenburg castle

Torment : Chinese woman becomes public enemy number one for refusing to abort pregnancy

Hamas and Israel exchange rocket fire

UN to the rescue : Half the population of North Korea undernourished as drought takes toll

The people of North Korea too have been struggling to cope with the heatwave that has gripped much of the northern hemisphere

Former 400m Hurdles World Champion killed in car crash

28-year-old Nicholas Bett won a gold medal at the 2015 World Athletics in Beijing

Russian prime minister refuses to accept that Georgia needs to join NATO

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Assad loses chemical war expert

President Bashir al-Assad of Syria

Venezuela : Why would anyone want to kill Maduro?

President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, surrounded by military personnel, look skywards as a drone explodes overhead