26 July 2014 Last updated at 07:31
Giant anteaters kill two hunters in Brazil
Gaza conflict: Israel and Hamas begin 12-hour truce
Israel and Hamas have begun a 12-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza.
Israel said it would continue to "locate and neutralise" Hamas tunnels during the pause, which began at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). International talks on a longer truce resume later.
In Gaza, some Palestinians were seen on the streets, some attempting to visit their homes in badly hit areas.
More than 870 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 38 Israelis have died since the conflict started on 8 July.
Israeli strikes killed at least 19 Palestinians overnight, medical sources said, with many casualties reported in a family home near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.
Did Malaysian leader's 'quiet diplomacy' seal MH17 deal with rebels?
It was a moment of triumph amid a personal tragedy for Malaysian leader Najib Razak.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, he could finally stand in front of his nation with news of a deal -- the breakthrough to release MH17's flight recorders from rebels' hands, and, as important, to bring home the remains of the victims.
Najib's own step-grandmother was on the flight, which was shot down near the Ukrainian-Russian border last Thursday. The second wife of his grandfather was flying to Malaysia to celebrate Hari Raya -- the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Australia to transfer Tamil asylum seekers to detention centre
157 Sri Lankan refugees held at sea for almost a month by immigration service
Australia will transfer 157 Tamil asylum seekers it has been holding at sea for nearly a month to a mainland detention centre, the immigration minister said yesterday, in an apparent setback for the government’s policies.
Australia has provided little information about the asylum seekers, detained by customs after setting sail from India. Their case was due to be heard by the high court next month.
Immigration minister Scott Morrison struck a combative tone, refusing to answer questions about the condition of the asylum seekers or the impact the move could have on policy.
He insisted, however, that the government was not backing down from a regime that he says prevented the thousands of boat arrivals a month the country experienced during much of 2013 and the resultant spike in deaths at sea.
Nigeria waits for its kidnapped girls: 'This is the worst kind of pain'
Parents of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram describe their anguish, 100 days on.
Samuel Yaga was describing his missing daughter’s dream of becoming a doctor when the air went from his lungs. One hundred days after Sarah was abducted, the raw emotion still detonates unexpectedly. Could a child who always fell asleep clutching a book survive a sect whose opposition to Western education has led them to burn schoolchildren alive, he wondered.
“It would be better if we had a body to bury,” he began, then took a shaky breath. He tried again: “We would have been able to cope. But she just disappeared without a trace and we have nothing, not even a body to mourn. This is the worst kind of pain.”
Countless families in northeastern Nigeria are adrift in the same agonising limbo. Boko Haram has outgunned an overstretched and demoralised army, kidnapping girls and women, forcing boys into their ranks and razing villages in their quest for an Islamic caliphate. On April 14, a festering insurgency erupted in the mass abduction of nearly 300 girls in Chibok, Borno state.
Child migrant crisis: Churches, aid workers on front lines in Central America
The presidents of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras meet with President Obama on the Central American crisis today. While their focus is often police and military solutions, others are seeking ways for kids to work or attend school without fear of being killed.
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — One afternoon earlier this month, members of a street gang grabbed 10-year-old David Orellana as he walked home from school in a rural district east of this capital city.
The boy’s body was found a day later, decapitated and dismembered. His school uniform was folded neatly alongside him.
Police say that the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, street gang likely murdered the second-grader because, though he lived on their turf, his school was located in rival Barrio 18 gang territory.
Giant anteaters kill two hunters in Brazil
By Kerry Sheridan
11 hours ago
Giant anteaters in Brazil have killed two hunters in separate incidents, raising concerns about the animals' loss of habitat and the growing risk of dangerous encounters with people, researchers said.
The long-nosed, hairy mammals are not typically aggressive toward people and are considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), largely due to deforestation and human settlements that encroach on their territory.
However, they have poor vision and if frightened, they may defend themselves with front claws that are as long as pocketknives.
The case studies of two fatal attacks by giant anteaters were described in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, which released the paper online this month, ahead of its publication in the December print issue.
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