USA beat former champions Japan in Vancouver to become the first nation to win three Women's World Cups.

Mainland Chinese shares surge nearly 8% on Monday despite the rest of Asian markets trading lower on Greece's rejection of austerity demands.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says Greeks made a "brave choice" in voting to reject the terms of an international bailout.

Australian PM Tony Abbott tells his ministers not to appear on the popular ABC talk show Q&A, after it features a former terror suspect.

Micronesia suffer the biggest defeat in international football history after losing 38-0, but escape the record books.

Singaporeans are enjoying a bumper crop of pungent durians, the so called "king of fruits", which are something of a national obsession.

Two bomb attacks - on a restaurant and a mosque - in the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say.

The Philippines confirms its second case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), in a foreign man who arrived from Dubai.