A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:GERALD ANDERSON / GETTY IMAGESOn Saturday in Kenya, members of the Rendille community come together...GERALD ANDERSON...

Getty ImagesSabina Shoal is located in the oil-rich Spratly Islands of the South China SeaA new flashpoint has emerged in the ongoing maritime dispute between China and the Philippines,...

Festivities have begun for the wedding of Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise and her American partner, self-styled shaman Durek Verrett.Hundreds of guests arrived in the town of Alesund, in western...

Rio de Janeiro police targeted several claw machines across the city on Wednesday, saying they are games of chance - like slot machines - and therefore illegal.Officers confiscated machines,...

Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.The campaign will...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Wal, sat for their first joint interview with CNN. Ms Harris defended her shifts on policy, President Joe...

Thirteen people got stuck in mid-air after a ride at a theme park in Australia malfunctioned. The ride stopped because of a "sensor communication fault", an official at Sea...

People took to the streets of Buenos Aires after President Javier Milei announced he would block plans to raise pensions in line with Argentina's triple-digit inflation rates.Police used pepper...

Liberia’s former justice minister and chief justice Gloria Maya Musu-Scott has been acquitted of the murder of her niece by the country’s Supreme Court.The 70-year-old and three female relatives...

Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong have been found guilty of sedition. Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, two editors at the now-defunct Stand News media...

Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation in France as part of a probe into organised crime on the messaging app, Paris prosecutors say.Mr...

The son of a renowned Spanish actor has been jailed for life after he killed and dismembered a man on the southern Thai island of Koh Phangan last year.Daniel...