LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone leaders will attend an emergency summit on Monday, hoping to thrash out a plan with Athens to provide Greece with additional funds to prevent it defaulting on its debt -- but only if both sides play ball.
A Somali soldier and four militants were killed Sunday as an al-Qaida-linked extremist group tried to attack a training compound used for intelligence officials in Mogadishu, a police officer said.
Three people have died in a house fire in Langley Mill, Derbyshire.
DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) - When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya.
DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) - When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A blast occurred in near the town of Saghbein in a remote area of Lebanon's western Bekaa region on Sunday, but the cause of it was not yet known, Lebanese security sources said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli paramilitary policeman at the entrance to the walled old city of Jerusalem on Sunday and was then shot by the policeman, police said.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Four Islamist gunmen were killed after detonating a car bomb and shooting their way into a national intelligence agency training site, the internal security ministry said, adding that the government did not suffer any casualties during the attack.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Four Islamist gunmen were killed after detonating a car bomb and shooting their way into a national intelligence agency training site, the internal security ministry said, adding that the government did not suffer any casualties during the attack.
June 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Line-ups for the second One Day International between Bangladesh and India on Sunday in Mirpur, Bangladesh India won toss and decided to bat Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman India: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Ravindra Jade
Israeli police say a Palestinian man has stabbed an Israeli paramilitary police officer, critically injuring him.
Authorities canvassed a New Orleans neighborhood late into Saturday night in search of the man believed to have fatally shot a police officer who was transporting him - handcuffed and in the back of a police SUV - to jail.
The mother of a three-week-old baby who died after being bitten by a dog in Sunderland is said to be "devastated" by what happened.
Residents are angered as bulldozers flatten homes and businesses in Ghana's capital to prevent a repeat of this months' deadly floods. Paul Chapman reports.
Residents are angered as bulldozers flatten homes and businesses in Ghana's capital to prevent a repeat of this months' deadly floods. Paul Chapman reports.
Residents are angered as bulldozers flatten homes and businesses in Ghana's capital to prevent a repeat of this months' deadly floods. Paul Chapman reports.
Residents are angered as bulldozers flatten homes and businesses in Ghana's capital to prevent a repeat of this months' deadly floods. Paul Chapman reports.
“I hope someone lugs a bottle of warm urine at that muppet Kanye West at Glasto so his face comes out in piss-blisters”, joked a Twitter user ahead of the rapper's upcoming Saturday night headline act.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The ACT Brumbies can look forward to a bout of jet-lag along with the usual aches and pains after a Super Rugby playoff but believe they have the "character" to dig deep for an unlikely semi-final win over rested Wellington Hurricanes.
Pope Francis has paused in silent prayer before the Shroud of Turin on special display in the northern Italian city's cathedral.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain has a long history of short-lived negotiating triumphs in Europe.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain has a long history of short-lived negotiating triumphs in Europe.
MELBOURNE, June 21 (Reuters) - The ACT Brumbies can look forward to a bout of jet-lag along with the usual aches and pains after a Super Rugby playoff but believe they have the "character" to dig deep for an unlikely semi-final win over rested Wellington Hurricanes.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 20 (Reuters) - It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted journalists.
SEOUL/BANGKOK (Reuters) - South Korea reported three new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome on Sunday, bringing the total to 169 in the largest outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, but Thailand said it had no new infections.
