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.

London Zoo carries out its annual weigh-in of animals, including Ring-tailed lemurs, penguins and tortoises. The data collected from over 10,000 animals across 400 species is shared on a database so zookeepers across the globe can preserve endangered species.

Weighing 672 tonnes and more than a century old, the red wooden Lutheran church of Kiruna isn't what you'd expect to find rolling down the road. But that's exactly what the building is doing, with crowds turning out to watch its massive relocation project. The Kiruna Kyrka, along with the rest of Kiruna's town centre, is being moved due to the expansion of a huge underground mine that has weakened the ground.

Illuminated by flames, Spanish firefighters battle wildfires that have been raging throughout the country's west and northwest for over a week. The bulk of the devastation -- with 373,000 hectares burnt -- has taken place in the northwestern provinces of Zamora and Leon, Galicia's Ourense province and Caceres in the western region of Extremadura. On Sunday 17 August, two firefighters were killed, one in Spain and one in neighbouring Portugal, taking the total death toll to four in Spain and two in Portugal.

Women laugh as they enjoy homemade steamed buns at a rural cottage in China's eastern province of Zhejiang, one of a growing number of women-only co-living spaces far from social pressures and male judgment. Here at "Keke's Imaginative Space" -- bearing the nickname of founder Chen Yani -- participants pay 30 yuan ($4.17) a night, with costs going up to 80 yuan from the fourth day. "The all-women environment makes me feel safe," participant Zhang Wenjing tells AFP.

There are just 1,200 to 2,000 yellow-crested cockatoos left in the wild and, despite being native to Indonesia and East Timor, one-tenth of them are in Hong Kong. As their numbers stagnate, a scientist at the city's oldest university is on a mission to revive them using artificial nest boxes.