August Agboola Browne is thought to have been the only black person in the Polish resistance.

Kenenisa Bekele's much-anticipated London Marathon duel with Eliud Kipchoge is off as the Ethiopian pulls out of Sunday's race with a calf injury.

Thousands of detainees are facing "unimaginable cruelty", Amnesty International says.

A group of Nigerian-Irish teens have developed the Memory Haven app to help people with dementia.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.