Sophia, a machine with human female features created by Hanson Robotics, said she was honoured to become a Saudi citizen.
Brazilian company Santher stirred some racial controversy when they used the civil rights slogan "black is beautiful" to advertise back toilet paper with a white model
Ethnic tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims have existed in Myanmar for decades. Almost one million Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh as violence erupted.
Rex Tillerson hailed Saudi Arabia as a "terrific partner" during his visit to Riyadh, but failed to condemn Saudi forces' demolition of Shia-majority town Awamiya.
Ibrahim Halawa spent more than four years in an Egyptian jail after he was arrested in 2013 at a protest in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Zelimkhan Bakaev has been missing since August. Activists claim he was murdered within 10 hours of arriving in the Russian republic.
A report reveals that as many as 50 children a week are referred to gender reassignment experts with the Gender Identity Development Service.
Opposition leader said he hopes to attend an "evening demonstration" in southern Russia.
Protesters urge government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims.
Meth tablets recovered as army continues crackdown against militants in an operaiton that the UN said may amount to ethnic cleaning against Rohingya Muslims.
Spain has announced an unprecedented plan to sack Catalonia's separatist leaders led by Carles Puigdemont.
International rights groups and opposition parties have condemned the announcement, highlighting the dire state of Zimbabwe's health service.
BBC Radio Kent asked Twitter if gay conversion therapy should be banned and suffered the consequences
A plan by the mayor of Sao Paulo to give children pellets made from leftovers has divided opinion in a city that struggles to feed lower-income residents.
Authorities suggested that LGBT citizens in the Muslim-majority country would be subject to mandatory testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
A court in Sweden has awarded a man almost £10,000 after he was imprisoned for four months, wrongly suspected of being an Isis terrorist – but they cannot find him anywhere.
One in five Rohingya children in Bangladesh's refugee camps are "acutely malnourished" and require medical attention, says Unicef report, Outcast and Desperate.
Australia's sparsely populated Northern Territory in 1995 became the first jurisdiction in the world to legalise doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
Mustapha Ramid reportedly has referred to journalists as "traitors" and human rights activists as "hateful" in the past.
Opposition leaders are trying to mobilize against efforts to remove an age barrier in the constitution that prevents 73-year-old President Yoweri Museveni from extending his rule when his current term expires in 2021.
The UK continues to stress its support for Saudi Arabia, without addressing the Kingdom's rate of executions and poor human rights record.
The Canadian province became the first place in North America to instute a ban effectively stopping Muslim women wearing the niqab or burqa from public services.
The British government has opted for sheepish deference rather than challenging Iranian authorities for imprisoning the charity worker.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that law enforcement agencies will investigate the allegations, but activists say the situation has not improved.
Taliban threats, extreme poverty and child marriage prevent many girls in Afghanistan from getting a proper education.
Malala is the world's youngest Nobel peace laureate, an award she received after being shot in the head by Pakistani Taliban militants because she campaigned for girls' education.
It was the third attack by wild elephants on the refugees in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, which borders Myanmar.
The Philippines president Duterte also said he is declaring a "revolutionary government" and would be happy to cut all ties with the EU.
Joshua Boyle and his family from Canada were held by the Haqqani network, which is connected to the Taliban, for five years in Afghanistan.
Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August.