The government's latest figures show more than 300 people were killed in Mogadishu in what is being described as one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country's history.
Opposition leaders have denounced what they say are widespread voting irregularities after pre-election polls indicated big wins for parties opposed to President Nicolas Maduro.
Now a post-tropical cyclone, it is expected to bring hurricane-force winds to Ireland on Monday. As a Category 3 on Saturday, Ophelia tracked farther east in the Atlantic than any hurricane on record.
A truck bombing in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, has left some 200 people dead. Analysts hope the historical attack will unite Somalis in the fight against the Islamist group al-Shabab.
Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlin Coleman were captured by the terrorist group in 2012. This past week they and their children were freed, and face a tough reentry into society.
The 31-year-old conservative foreign minister has moved his party sharply to the right on issues like immigration and Islam. He is widely expected to become Austria's chancellor after Sunday's vote.
In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.