Syrian families wait their turn to register at the UNHCR center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. The UN has announced today that the number of Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict has reached 1 million. Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP
Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night after the announcement that their president, Hugo Chávez, had died aged 58 after a long battle against cancer. Full coverage here.
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1. 2012: Chávez speaks at a press conference after his re-election in front of a portrait of Simón Bolívar. He pledged to become a better president and to work with the opposition Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
2. 15 February 2013: Chávez poses for a photo with his daughters, Maria Gabriela, left, and Rosa Virginia in Havana, Cuba Photograph: AP
3. 2004: Chávez greets his supporters at a Caracas rally against US intervention in Venezuelan politics Photograph: Egilda Gomez/AP
A Masaai woman casts her vote in the Kenyan general election in Ilbissil.
Demand for clichés is expected to reach a peak as foreign correspondents fly in to cover the election. “We anticipate a run on ‘hotly contested’ and ‘neck and neck’” said an unemployed militant.
Every reporter will be issued with an election package as they step out of the plane and are greeted by the tropical heat of Africa.
Non-government organisations are understood to have teams on standby, ready to supply quotes about rampant corruption, grinding poverty, and soaring unemployment.
Pope Benedict XVI is carrying out his final engagements as head of the Roman Catholic church before flying in a helicopter to a hilltop town where he is expected to spend the next two months.
Benedict has been the leader of the Catholic church for eight years and is the first pope to retire since 1415.
See a gallery of his final audience. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Prosecutor Garrie Nel begins speaking, laying out the prosecution case that Pistorius shot an innocent woman, who was unarmed and inside a toilet. Pistorius slumps forward, sobbing. Pistorius ‘shot Reeva Steenkamp through door’ - follow our live coverage of the bail hearing | World news | guardian.co.uk
South Africa’s Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius leaves the Boshkop police station in Pretoria East, to be taken into police custody after allegedly shooting dead his model girlfriend having mistaken her for an intruder
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Some were shot. Others hid and hoped. Using survivors’ testimonies, photography and video - some filmed by the hostages themselves - we piece together the narrative of the four-day In Amenas gas plant siege in Algeria
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