Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country.
A Thai mahout and his elephant attend the 49th Surin Elephant Roundup, which brings together mahouts and elephants from all over Thailand. (David Longstreath, AP)
A team of senior government officials is to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals "because our public institutions are not doing well", Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says.
Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the US as the only country outside the pact, the UN says.
A British police officer has been swept to his death as raging floods engulfed northern England's Lake District following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain.
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