School children in Kenya are helping to fight deforestation by planting seeds using slingshots.

The British government is facing rising calls to liberalize abortion laws in Northern Ireland.

Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe has been forced out but he’s hardly faded away. Ahead of this month’s historic election, dozens of people in T-shirts with his image danced to anti-government songs while vowing revenge.

Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted 40 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, near its shores, bound for Europe.

Iran’s president is warning President Donald Trump against provoking his country while indicating peace between the two nations might still be possible.

Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction.

Police in Pakistan say a suicide bombing in the country’s northwest has killed the driver of an election candidate while wounding the candidate and three other people.

An Iranian semi-official news agency says a magnitude 5.7 earthquake has jolted a town in the country’s south.

South African police say gunmen have opened fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers’ association, killing 11 people and critically wounding four others.

What to do during Britain’s hottest summer in years? Why, count butterflies, of course.