Around six assailants sprayed teargas on Chinese tourists outside a hotel near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on Tuesday and made off with their luggage, police and rescue services said.

In the small Burkina Faso village of Balole, where farmers struggle to grow tomatoes, cabbages and aubergines, angry youngsters armed with batons and machetes are barring entry to the slaughterhouse.

It is often said that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but one cheated wife went to extraordinary lengths to exact revenge on her husband's mistress.

An ax-wielding shopkeeper hacked a couple to death in northern India Thursday after they failed to pay a debt of 22 U.S. cents, police said.

Malawi police have arrested an HIV-infected man who was paid to have sex with more than 100 adolescent girls as part of a traditional ritual marking their passage to womanhood, officials said Tuesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama's half-brother said Tuesday he was going to vote for Republican candidate Donald Trump in this year's American election, saying he felt let down his sibling's neglect of his Kenyan family.

The Tanzanian government has banned imports and sales of sexual lubricants in its latest move targeting the gay community, officials say.

Indonesia is banning police and military personnel from playing Pokemon Go while on duty, officials said Wednesday, after the defense minister warned the smartphone game was a security threat.

A toilet-themed cafe where customers dine on meatballs floating in soup-filled latrines may not be everyone's idea of haute cuisine, but Indonesians are flocking to become privy to the latest lavatorial trend.

Guests at the "Jamban Cafe" sit on upright toilets around a table where food is served in squat loos.

Donald Trump faced an embarrassing plagiarism scandal Tuesday that tarnished his wife Melania's prime-time speech to a Republican National Convention already roiled by an opening day rank-and-file revolt.