A deal is agreed by which Russia will receive compensation for France's decision last year to cancel the sale of two warships, both countries say.

The Japanese city of Hiroshima marks the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb by a US warplane, which killed 140,000 people.

The final defendant in the $68bn (£44bn) Bernard Madoff fraud case is jailed, marking the end of a six-year prosecution saga.

A judge in Brazil sentences two former executives of construction giant OAS to 16 years in jail over corruption at the state-owned oil company.

Australia PM Tony Abbott says the "baffling mystery" of MH370 is closer to being solved, after Malaysia says debris came from the missing flight.

Six people die in a suicide bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, the first such attack since the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

In a rare disclosure, Australia says a group of Vietnamese migrants were among 600 refugees turned away at sea since December 2013.

Egypt prepares to open a major expansion of the Suez Canal, deepening the main waterway and providing ships with a 35km (22 mile) channel parallel to it.