Saiga antelope A mystery disease has killed over 120,000 saiga antelopes β more than a third of the world's total population β in Kazakhstan in recent weeks.
Martin O'Malley Martin O'Malley announces that he will be seeking the Democratic Party nomination in the 2016 US presidential election.
Beau Biden Beau Biden, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's son, who had served in the Iraq War and for multiple terms as the Attorney General of Delaware, dies at Walter Reed Medical Center after a battle with malignant brain cancer.
2015 Rohingya refugee crisis A Thai national is arrested in Myanmar in relation to human trafficking offences after the Myanmar Navy rescues more than 200 people from a boat that he allegedly owns.
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea US surveillance detects two large self-propelled artillery vehicles on one of the islands.
The United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter warns that the People's Republic of China's island building in the South China Sea is undermining security in the Asia-Pacific region and has called for a diplomatic solution.
Illegal immigration from Africa to Europe The Italian Coast Guard states that at least 17 people have died and 4,200 have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to travel to Europe in the past 24 hours. Ships from nations including Italy, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom have been involved in rescue efforts.
Boko Haram A suicide bomber kills 26 people in a Maiduguri mosque hours after militants launch an attack on the first full day of President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari's term of office.
Syrian civil war The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that barrel bombs dropped by the Bashar al-Assad regime have killed at least 45 people in the Aleppo Governorate and injured dozens more.