China Market Contagion Affects Africa

Shares have fallen again in early trading in China before recovering some of those losses. All five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are now affected by declining markets to varying degrees.

Europe's migration crisis: big changes in the governing protocol which has been blamed for causing the crisis in part, and a declaration of war on the people smugglers.

A mammoth cluster of plastic rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean needs to be urgently cleaned up, say mararime experts.

(Photo: Passers-by are reflected on a panel displaying Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong. Credit: Reuters)