The leader of the group said they had come to claim Africa's stolen property from a Paris museum.
Image copyright Getty Images As nearly 150 global leaders lined up - virtually - to address Wednesday's UN biodiversity summit , the stakes could not have been higher.
"The house is on fire and we are all locked in, because of a disease that came from our mismanagement of nature."
This was how Inger Anderson, head of the UN Environment Programme, put it in a
Cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known as Quino, has died in his native Argentina.
Image copyright AFP President Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden have gone head-to-head in the first of three televised debates before the US election in November.
During a heated 90 minutes, the nominees clashed over everything from the state of the economy to the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Reality Check has unpicked some of their claims.
Verdict: That's not right - there have been times in US history when the economy was stronger.
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Taku Sekine is said to have fallen into depression after "false" sexual assault allegations.
If fierce fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops persists, outside forces may get involved.
The huge noise startled Parisians after a war jet was dispatched to intercept a commercial plane.
Image copyright NASA Astronauts were woken during the night to continue the hunt for an air leak on the International Space Station (ISS).
Crew members have been hunting for the source over several weeks.
But the search was stepped up a notch when the size of the leak appeared to grow on Monday; this erroneous reading turned out to have been caused by a temperature change onboard the ISS.
Analysis by ground teams traced the leak to the main work area inside a Russian ISS module called Zvezda.
This module contains life support
Image copyright Getty Images The first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.
Mr Brown, who was also known as "the Berlin patient", was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV in 2007.
It meant he no longer needed anti-viral drugs and he remained free of the virus, which can lead to Aids, for the
Image copyright Abhishek Mathur / BBC The family of a Dalit (formerly untouchable) woman who died after she was gang-raped has accused police officials of cremating her body without their permission.
The 19-year-old was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras district in northern India.
She was grievously injured and died in a Delhi hospital on Tuesday after fighting for her life for two weeks.
Activists say