Top Stories: At least 72 people have died amid the widespread violence, looting and vandalism across South Africa -- but a two-year old girl was saved from a burning building in Durban Tuesday, after her mother threw her to safety as they escaped a burning high-rise building. Innocent lives are being lost in the wave of violence gripping South Africa. A 15-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet in a Johannesburg township on Wednesday, according to a Reuters photographer at the scene who saw the body and his distraught relatives grieving. A crowd gathered around the body of teenager Vusi Dlamini in Vosloorus to the south of Johannesburg. Among his relatives at the scene were his grandmother and his sister. The war in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray appears set to intensify as the prime minister signaled the end of a government ceasefire - and the neighboring Amhara region says it will go on the offensive against Tigrayan forces. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed abruptly pulled central government troops out of most of Tigray last month, citing a unilateral ceasefire that the Tigray People's Liberation Front allegedly mocked as "a joke" designed to justify his forces' retreat. In a statement on Wednesday, Abiy said the ceasefire had failed to deliver. Nigeria is set to resume its coronavirus vaccinations, having exhausted its supply of doses last week, with shots donated by COVAX and the United States. Overdose deaths in the United States soared to a record 93-thousand last year amid a continued tide of illegal narcotics, many of them smuggled into the country from Central America. As protests continue in Cuba, hundreds of people in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood have taken to the streets in support of the demonstrations in the Caribbean nation. As the Covid-19 Delta variant spreads in record numbers in Indonesia, hospitals are overwhelmed. The situation is forcing many residents to care for sick families themselves. U.S. President Joe Biden was in Philadelphia Tuesday to urge the passing of voting rights legislation that has stalled in Congress, but he did not outline a path to overcome Republican opposition. In the future, keyboards and remote controls may be replaced with a more direct way for humans to interact with machines – hand gestures. Guernsey's Auction House in New York is auctioning off pieces of music history this week.