Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

Party-goers in Pakistan are going ape over the latest craze to hit the dancefloor -- giant gorillas. Entertainers dress up in the super-sized simian costumes, flailing around their limbs to DJ beats alongside revellers in the eastern mega-city of Lahore.

With abundant waterways, Bhutan has long relied on hydroelectric power to meet its electricity needs and stay carbon negative -- absorbing more planet-warming gases than it emits. But demand is growing, and so the Kingdom is looking to solar energy to help power its development, including a new special economic zone known as the Gelephu Mindfulness City which is expected to host energy-hungry data centres.

Atop a steep hillside in Bhutan, an arrow slices through the air and slams into a wooden target with a thud, prompting a round of celebratory song. Traditional archery is Bhutan's national sport and has a storied history, but some fans fear for its future as development and safety concerns eat away at space for archery ranges.

Thousands gather at vigils in Cape Town and Tembisa for victims of gender-based violence in South Africa as a string of murders in Gauteng province fuel public anxiety. Police have imposed a lockdown in Kempton Park in the Ekurhuleni municipality and officers mounted roadblocks after three of the bodies were found this week. South Africa, a nation of 62 million people, has some of the highest rates of violence against women and children in the world, according to UN Women.

Dozens of protesters march in San Francisco to demand that artificial intelligence companies "stop the AI race" as fears mount over the safety of the technology. A security research company said Friday it managed to break into OpenAI's internal systems using the latest software from Anthropic, exposing how quickly the technology can carry out sophisticated cyberattacks.