Greece seeks an explanation from the IMF over a conversation in which top officials allegedly say a crisis "event" is needed to conclude debt talks.

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

The Australian government says the last remaining asylum-seeking children being held in mainland detention centres have been freed.

Leaders of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect in Syria release a document distancing themselves from his regime.

Five soldiers and one special forces police officer have been killed in a bomb attack in south-eastern Turkey blamed on Kurdish rebels, reports say.

Former AC Milan defender and Italy coach Cesare Maldini dies at the age of 84.

An Amtrak train derails south of the US city of Philadelphia, with some reports suggesting two people have been killed.

A plane crashes into a car on a California freeway, killing a passenger, years after the same aircraft landed safely on the same stretch of road.