(Warning: graphic content) Hong Kong police shot and critically wounded a protester and a man was set on fire in violence after a weekend of clashes across the Chinese-ruled territory, marking a dramatic escalation in more than five months of often violent pro-democracy unrest.
Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako rode through central Tokyo in a motorcade to mark this year's imperial succession as well-wishers waved national flags and held up mobile phones for snapshots of the smiling royal couple.
Relatives grieve for nine American women and children, members of breakaway Mormon communities who were slain by unknown gunmen, at their funerals in Mexico.
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, who sailed to New York in a zero-carbon emissions vessel, stages 'climate strikes' and appeals to political leaders as part of her tour of North America ahead of a U.N.-sponsored climate conference in Santiago, Chile, in December.
The great-great-grandson of the commander at the Wounded Knee Massacre, when U.S. troops killed more than 250 Oglala Lakota men, women and children, traveled to South Dakota to ask the victims' descendants for forgiveness.
Protesters gathered across Hong Kong to mourn a university undergraduate who died after falling in a car park during pro-democracy demonstrations this week, a death that could yet trigger more unrest.
