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Donald Trump throws his full weight behind a contested plan to repeal and replace the healthcare legislation known as 'Obamacare', saying, "We must act now to save Americans from the imploding Obamacare disaster." He faces resistance from his own party's right wing as well as from Democrats.

Iraqi special forces battling the Islamic State group push deeper into west Mosul, where a commander said jihadist resistance is showing signs of weakening under repeated assaults.

Pope Francis will travel to Colombia in September, the Vatican says, after the pontiff closely followed peace negotiations between the government and FARC rebels.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan announce the "normalisation" of ties between the two countries, damaged by Ankara downing one of Moscow's warplanes in 2015.

Electro music is set to be the main theme of the Brussels festival Les Nuits Botanique, which is preparing to host over 120 groups in the Belgian capital in May 2017.

Sergi Roberto scores in the fifth minute of stoppage time as Barcelona caps a sensational Champions League fightback to thrash Paris Saint-Germain 6-1 and reach the quarter-finals.

From spells to win back an errant lover to help communing with the spirits, Myanmar's mediums, soothsayers and wizards dabbling in the occult, are in high demand.

Captivated by the idea of fighting jihadists, or dedicated to starting a "revolution," foreigners have diverse reasons for joining the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.

Wednesday, March 8th marks the 40th anniversary of International Women's Day. For many American women who believed the future was imminently female, Hillary Clinton's election loss to Donald Trump was a crushing defeat. Under the new administration, feminists seek to protect women's rights in what could be a challenging chapter for the women's movement.

A sea turtle dubbed 'Piggy Bank' has had her fortunes restored after Thai vets removed 915 coins from her stomach -- a deposit built up after years of gulping down good luck pennies tossed into its pond.

Germany's foreign ministry calls in Turkey's ambassador to protest Ankara's provisional detention of a German journalist on terrorism-related charges. Deniz Yucel had been held since February 18 in connection with news reports on an attack by hackers against the email account of Turkey's energy minister.

Australia and Indonesia announce the full restoration of military ties.

The death from a heart attack of a South Korean civil servant in January has prompted widespread soul-searching over the difficulties faced by overburdened and exhausted working mothers in a deeply workaholic and male-dominated society.

The Wildlife Rescue Center, El Tronador, in El Salvador rescues parrot chicks from animal trafficking before releasing them back into the wild.

The Spanish NGO 'Proactiva Open Arms' recues 324 migrants from West Africa off the coast of Italy and brings them to the Sicilian port of Reggio Calabria.

Brazil's oldest artificial lake has dried up to become a cemetery for turtles, symbol of the ecological disaster hitting the country's northeast in its worst drought in a century.

While speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Trump renewed his promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico, "way ahead of time".

This week on Africa Weekly we take a look at humanitarian groups struggling to deliver aid to almost 60,000 people in northern Nigeria forced out of their homes by Boko Haram Islamists, we meet African migrants making a home for themselves in the Italian town of Belluno and finally check in with Liberian designers leading an African style revolution. FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY

Foreign ministers from France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine meet on the fringe of the Munich Security Conference. French FM Jean-Marc Ayrault insists there is "no alternative" to the Minsk ceasefire accords.

Arm in arm and holding flowers, thousands of Mexicans formed a "human wall" on the border with the United States this Friday, in protest against President Donald Trump's plan to build a major barrier there to prevent the passage of undocumented immigrants.