Trading on China's stock markets is suspended after the market dramatically plunged 7% and triggered a circuit-breaker mechanism.

The trial opens in Paris of 70-year-old Guy Wildenstein, patriarch of an international art dealing dynasty, on charges of massive tax fraud.

Partial results from the Central African Republic election show presidential candidate Faustin Touadera with a surprise lead.

Sweden introduces border controls for travellers coming from Denmark in an effort to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the country.

Security services are examining a video, purportedly showing killings by so-called Islamic State, to identify a man and young boy with British accents.

Saudi Arabia gives Iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric.

A father and his two children have drowned after their car was driven off the end of a wharf in Australia.

Kenya's Garissa University College officially reopens, nine months after the killing of nearly 150 people, mainly students, in an attack by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.