UK continues to have functioning government, minister tells parliament

A fire that broke out at a densely populated residential area in the capital city early on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured three.

In DR Congo, a speaker of the National Assembly has finally been elected after months of political infighting.

The Holocaust Memorial in Paris was vandalised with red hand graffiti, a symbol considered anti-Semitic by Jews. The French police were able to track down three suspects of Bulgarian origin through video surveillance, believed to be Russian henchmen hired to deface the memorial.

Disgustingly resilient, the German cockroach is the most widespread roach of all roachkind. A recent study reconstructed its origins and charted its unstoppable rise.

With over 830,000 inmates, Brazil has the third-largest prison population in the world, behind only the US and China. According to data from the National Secretariat for Penal Policy, there are almost 166,000 more prisoners than there are places currently available in the country's jails. In some penitentiaries, such as in the state of Rio de Janeiro, prison overcrowding can reach 190 percent. Brazilian prisons are also regularly the scene of rebellions and massacres.

Rescuers are searching for survivors after a devastating landslide in Enga, a remote highland region of the South Pacific nation. Papua New Guinea, the second most populous nation in the South Pacific after Australia, is a developing country with a largely subsistence farming population.