South Korea Monday stopped broadcasting propaganda along its border with North Korea to help promote the mood of rapprochement on the peninsula ahead of the inter-Korean leaders' summit on Friday.

With Yemen gripped in what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, many of its civilians find themselves forced to live in camps for the displaced, facing a lack of food and poor sanitation conditions, as reported by an epa journalist on Saturday.

American actor Verne Troyer, best known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, died on Saturday, according to a message on his Instagram account. He was 49.

Argentina's Sebastian Cadenas has come up with an automatic way to provide relief to business owners by telling them exactly how much money they have received in credit card payments and when that cash will be available to them, an idea that won last year's Visa Everywhere Initiative in Latin America.

Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny, who sustained a serious ankle injury in a league game against West Ham United (4-1), will not play in the first-leg match of the UEFA Europa League semifinals against Atletico Madrid on Apr. 26, team manager Arsene Wenger said on Sunday.

Charismatic and entertaining, the African penguin draws birdwatchers and tourists to the beaches around Cape Town in South Africa, but a string of abnormal deaths among the population has alarmed local environmental officials, an epa photojournalist reported Friday.