President Barack Obama says the growing number of unaccompanied children travelling illegally to the US has created an "urgent humanitarian situation".

Seattle's city council votes unanimously to raise the city's minimum wage to the highest level of any major US city - $15 (£9) per hour, twice the national minimum.

Voting is due to get under way in Syria's presidential election which critics of the government have dismissed as a sham.

US President Barack Obama is to hold talks in Poland - with the Ukraine crisis and security in eastern Europe likely to top the agenda.

The Spanish cabinet is to discuss the next steps in the process of King Juan Carlos's abdication and his son Crown Prince Felipe's accession.

Defence ministers from Nato states are due to discuss for the first time the long-term security implications of Russian actions in Ukraine.

Indonesia's leader allowed a group of reporters to eavesdrop on a conversation with Australian PM Tony Abbott, according to reports.

India's newly-appointed Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde dies in a car crash in the capital, Delhi.