Keep out! Border walls across the world
As the Dominican Republic says it will build a wall between it and Haiti to keep out poor migrants, we look at the scores of frontier fences and "peace" walls that have sprung up across the globe.
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Vojislav Seselj: Unrepentant Serb ultranationalist
Serb academic turned far-right leader Vojislav Seselj won notoriety during the 1990s Balkan wars for his incendiary rhetoric and remains defiant since his provisional release from more than a decade in detention in The Hague.
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Peres: architect of Israel nuclear programme as well as peace
Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday aged 93, is famed for his peace efforts with the Palestinians but his role as architect of Israel's nuclear programme may prove his more lasting legacy.
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MH17: from crash to disputed conclusion
International investigators this week concluded that a Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in war-torn Ukraine in 2014 had been struck by a missile that came from a Russian military brigade.
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Suspected poison attacks on Kremlin critics
Ailing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whom Germany says was poisoned with nerve agent Novichok, is not the first Kremlin critic suspected or proven to have been poisoned.
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Key dates in Ivory Coast crisis
Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, the first former head of state to go on trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, was acquitted on Tuesday of charges of crimes against humanity, relating to unrest triggered by his bid to cling on to power.
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Forty years of US-Iran relations
Key dates between the US and Iran since 1979 after their exchange Monday in which the US designated Tehran's elite military force a terrorist organization and Iran called the US a "state sponsor of terrorism".
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Macri, millionaire president facing heave in Argentina election
Critics of Mauricio Macri say he has floated above the maelstrom of Argentina's economic crisis during his four-year presidency, concerned but untouched, protected by a life of privilege to which he will return.
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Austria's Max Schrems: US high-tech giants' worst nightmare?
Few in Silicon Valley could have predicted that a mild-mannered young Austrian lawyer who spent a semester studying there would one day become high-tech companies' worst nightmare.
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Sixty years ago: when the Berlin Wall went up
In the early hours of Sunday, August 13, 1961, communist East Germany's authorities began building the Berlin Wall, cutting the city in two and plugging the last remaining gap in the Iron Curtain.
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