Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has dedicated his Nobel Peace Prize to victims of the conflict with Farc rebels, asking them to stand at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Gustavo Vargas Villegas worked for the Bolivian aviation authority The Bolivian authorities have detained a second suspect over the air crash that killed most of Brazil’s Chapacoense football team last month. Prosecutors said Gustavo Vargas Villegas, a former aviation authority official, is being held on …

Image copyright EPA Image caption Three days of mourning were announced in seven-year-old Yuliana’s home department of Cauca. The funeral has been taking place in the Colombian capital, Bogota, of a seven-year-old girl from a poor family who was raped and killed on Sunday. Yuliana Samboni’s body – which showed …

Image copyright EPA Image caption Armed soldiers raided the toy distributor’s warehouses Venezuelan authorities have arrested two toy company executives and seized almost four million toys, which they say they will distribute to the poor. Officials accused the company of hoarding toys and hiking prices in the run-up to Christmas. …

Image copyright AP Image caption “From my own experience… it is much harder to make peace than to wage war,” Santos said The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to call for the world to “rethink” the war on drugs. He said …

Image copyright Kate Benyon-Tinker Image caption Ibrahim Bolgaith was born with severe malnutrition; his twin brother died In the hands of the doctor, baby Ibrahim’s head seems impossibly small. He cradles the child gently, conscious of his fragility. Everything around him seems improbably large. The nappies Ibrahim wears are the …

Image copyright Syrian Arab Red Crescent Image caption Battle hardened doctors used to war zones, lost for words As some of the most vulnerable people in Aleppo were moved from a former old-people’s home near the city’s front line on Wednesday, a Red Cross doctor involved in their evacuation sent …

Aleppo first became caught up in the war in July 2012, when rebels launched an offensive to expel government forces and gain control over northern Syria. But the assault was not decisive, leaving the city divided in half with the opposition controlling the east, and the government controlling the west.

Image copyright Frank Gardner Image caption A Saudi villager shows the damage from a rocket attack launched by rebels in Yemen Tall, bearded and wearing a pained expression, an elderly Saudi man called Jaber stands before the ruins of his family house in the town of Najran, just north of …

Image copyright Aleppo National Archives Throughout the long battle for Aleppo, as Syria’s most ancient city has been blasted into ruins around him, one man has worked continuously to preserve an image of the city as it once was, before the horrors of war arrived. A little over 10 years …