One of the Worst Droughts in A Century

Hundreds of thousands of litres of emergency drinking water are being carried by trains to the southern Indian state of Maharashtra. UNICEF says the use of children as suicide bomber by the Nigerian Islamist group, Boko Haram has increased more than tenfold over the past year. And the bears out of hibernation and harassing a Slovakian mountain town.

( Image: An Indian man holds an umbrella as he walks on the dry reservoir bed next to Gunda Dam in India"s western Gujarat state, Vast regions of western India have been facing acute water shortages due to drought conditions. Credit: Sam Panthaky/ AFP/Getty Images)