Domestic workers take to the streets of Hong Kong to demand a ban on them being asked to clean windows in high-rise buildings, after the death of a Filipino woman.

Decades of conservation efforts by China lead to a rise in the number of giant pandas, as they are taken off the endangered species list.

Voting starts in the first major elections in Hong Kong since pro-democracy protests in 2014.

Voters in north-east Germany are due to go to the polls in a vote seen as a test of Chancellor Angela Merkel's policies towards migrants and refugees.

Mother Teresa, the nun who worked with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata, will be declared a saint on 4 September, Pope Francis announces.

An inferno sparked by the collision of a passenger bus and fuel tanker in southern Afghanistan kills at least 36 people.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says the decision by judges to allow anti-government protests to go ahead showed a reckless disregard for peace.

Government forces retake the sites of two military academies seized by rebels last month, severing recently-established rebel supply line.