Ukrainian serviceman guards at hydro meteorological station tower at the airport of eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on December 11, 2014. The UN says the death toll from fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine has exceeded 4,600 in nearly eight months. The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Saturday the conflict... 

A Sudanese man sits next to his house in a flooded street on the outskirts of the capital Khartoum on August 10, 2013. Heavy rain and flooding in a region north of Sudan’s capital Khartoum have killed 36 people, state media says. “Thirty-six people were killed in Nile state and 5,000 houses were destroyed because of heavy rain and floods,” Sudan’s Radio Omdurman reported on Sunday. Khartoum...