Soldiers and police struggled to restore order in parts of South Africa after dozens of people were killed in the worst violence and looting the country has seen in decades. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
Despite a spike in coronavirus cases in Myanmar, around a hundred women march briefly in Yangon's Botahtaung township to protest against the military coup which brought the army to power in February.
Guadalajara (Mexico) (AFP) – A baby boy hippopotamus was born at the Guadalajara Zoo in Mexico. Weighing at 30 kilos, he spends his day swimming and lounging in the sun with his mother Tami.
Bangladeshis are rushing home to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the country's second-biggest religious festival, despite a lockdown and rise in coronavirus cases. However, authorities have said the nationwide coronavirus lockdown will be lifted Thursday, even as new infections soared to record levels.
Indonesians line up to refill oxygen tanks as the country's virus infections rise significantly. Daily cases soared to a record of 47,899 new infections and 864 deaths on Tuesday.
If the Olympics were held on time last year, Ryota Yamagata wouldn't have qualified. One year later, he's been named captain of the country's delegation at the games in Tokyo. CNN's Blake Essig sits down with the Olympian to talk about how he took advantage of the pandemic to earn the opportunity to represent Japan at Tokyo 2020.
Activist Amy Hagstrom Miller speaks about a recently passed Texas law that would allow private citizens to sue individuals thought to have assisted in violating the state's heartbeat ban abortion bill, barring most abortions at the onset of a fetal heartbeat.
The US wildfire season is off to its worst start in a decade, especially in California. CNN's Stephanie Elam reports.
Seven COVID-19 vaccines have received the green light from the World Health Organization so far. And as new variants of the coronavirus evolve, questions arise about how well each vaccine works. It can get confusing. But as VOA's Steve Baragona reports, when it comes to keeping people out of the hospital and the grave, any shot will help.
The East African nation's apparel sector is localizing its supply chain, as Kenyan-made apparel is stocking shelves across the world.
Two law enforcement officers were shot and a suspect is dead following a shooting in the parking lot of a Baltimore shopping mall, authorities said.
Washoe County (United States) (AFP) – Crews from the Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue use bulldozers to construct firelines to help stop the spread of an "aggressive" fire near Reno, Nevada. A combination of two blazes sparked by lightning near the California-Nevada border last week, the Beckwourth Complex fire has rapidly grown to some 90,000 acres.
