Australia storm kills three people, with more missing
Three people are dead and more are missing after massive storms flooded rivers, uprooted trees and tore into beaches along Australia's east coast.
Storms continue to batter southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
Erosion at Sydney's Collaroy Beach has forced the evacuation of multi-million dollar homes, which are now in danger of collapsing.
In Tasmania, where major flood warnings have been issued for seven rivers, two elderly people are feared drowned.
A man was reportedly swept into the Ouse River from his own backyard on Monday, while a woman was missing after floodwaters inundated her house in the state's north-west.
'We're all Darfurians': Sudan's protest movement makes bold return
Marches continue across the country as thousands denounce the ongoing conflict in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains
A new protest movement is gaining momentum in Sudan as thousands of young people across the country unite against the government.
Last week two students joined dozens others currently being held in detention, after fresh protests against attacks on civilians in east Darfur and the southern Nuba Mountains.
Human Rights Watch issued a statement in response to the arrests, warning: “Sudan is cracking down on activists, students, and even their lawyers, with abusive and thuggish tactics.”
Isis burns 19 Yazidi women to death in Mosul for 'refusing to have sex with fighters'
The women were reportedly burned to death in iron cages because they refused to have sex with Isis fighters
Isis militants have publicly executed 19 Yazidi women by burning them alive in Mosul, Iraq, local activists report.
The women were burned to death in iron cages because they refused to have sex with Isis fighters, the Kurdish ARA News agency reported.
“They were punished for refusing to have sex with Isis militants,” Abdullah al-Malla, a local media activist, told the agency.
An eyewitness in Mosul told ARA News: “The 19 girls were burned to death, while hundreds of people were watching."
"Nobody could do anything to save them from the brutal punishment."
‘Our’ Muhammad Ali — Why Pakistanis saw him as one of their own
HASAN ZAIDI
Anyone who lived through the 1970s could not have remained immune to the phenomenon that was Muhammad Ali, even if — like me — they had missed him at the peak of his athletic powers.
Coming back to boxing after being stripped of his world heavyweight title and having his boxing license revoked in 1967 by US boxing authorities for three and a half years — because of his refusal to participate in America’s war in Vietnam — he was a larger than life figure.
Not only was he a spectacular athlete rising from the ashes of forced exile, he was a moral giant, unafraid to put his principles before fame and money. But as a kid, I didn’t know all this.
South China Sea dispute: China is trading aid for support for claims
June 6, 2016 - 3:19PMDaniel Flitton
Senior Correspondent
China has launched a major charm offensive across the south Pacific to win diplomatic support for its chain of artificial islands.
Vanuatu has become the first country in the Pacific to publicly pledge "full understanding and support" for Beijing's stance in the increasingly tense South China Sea dispute.
China, which has recently surged to become one of the biggest foreign aid donors in a region traditionally dominated by Australia, has also targeted Samoa, Tonga and Papua New Guinea in a bid to win their backing.
But an earlier claim to have won Fiji's support backfired after it was quickly repudiated by the Fijian government.
Zika's ground zero: Generation of babies born with microcephaly face uncertain future
Updated 0817 GMT (1617 HKT) June 6, 2016
Maria Vitoria is eight months old, but her fragile frame has already seen so much suffering.
She was born with microcephaly, likely as a result of the Zika virus, and her family abandoned her at birth.
Now she is growing, but the development of her brain is stunted by the birth defect, and slowly, day by day, her adopted parents Kely and Josimar Oliveira are learning what this means: can she see, does she hear them?
Discoveries like these -- heart-shredding moments -- are happening every day at the Altino Ventura Foundation Clinic in Recife.
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