German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the EU has "no need to be particularly nasty in any way" in the negotiations with Britain about its exit from the bloc.

Mexican experts say they are completing work on digging up fossilised bones of a mammoth found near Mexico City.

Ireland fail in their bid for a first series win in South Africa as the hosts survive a late assault to win the final Test 19-13.

The UK has its credit rating outlook downgraded to "negative" by leading financial agency Moody's, as outgoing PM David Cameron faces pressure to speed up "divorce" talks with the EU.

A historian with no experience of public office is expected to be voted Iceland's new president, amid low turnout as many are in France for Euro 2016.

England completed a series whitewash with victory in a pulsating third and final Test in Sydney.

Gunmen storm a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, causing casualties in an attack blamed on the Islamist group al-Shabab.

Russian investigators arrest a regional governor, saying they caught him red-handed taking a €400,000 (£325,000; $444,500) bribe in a Moscow restaurant.