The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed "deep concern" over increasing attacks against civilians in Yemen with a total of 180 civilians killed in one month, raising the death toll to nearly 4000 since March 2015.
A teacher at a Tulsa charter school attended by the daughter of an unarmed black man killed by a white officer says the tragedy "lives and breathes" among her classmates in a moving essay she posted on Facebook detailing her experience helping students cope.
Gabon's Constitutional Court has convened to rule on the disputed election in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared the winner by a margin of less than 2 percent.
Conservation groups say Laos has promised to phase out tiger farms, which could help to curb the illegal trade in the endangered animals' body parts and protect the depleted population of tigers in Asia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has named his top political strategist to serve as the speaker of the newly elected parliament after elections that saw the main pro-Kremlin party strengthen its grip on the lower house.
Poland's conservative prime minister says she will make changes in her government next week because some ministers are "not coping" and things are not "fully working as they should." Prime Minister Beata Szydlo tells Polish state Radio 1 on Friday the changes are needed because her ruling Law and Justice party vowed to bring a new quality into politics and to protect the interests of ordinary people.
A university in Pennsylvania is allowing students and workers to use nicknames on some campus records, including student identification cards and emails, in an effort to better allow them to express their identities.
Dozens of bodies, many decomposed, are being pulled out of the waters off the Egyptian coast three days after hundreds of migrants heading to Europe, drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized.
German and French economic and financial leaders are meeting for talks focused on the strengthening of growth and investment in Europe, and the impact of Britain's vote to leave the European Union.