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.

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.

Venezuelan opposition leaders say they have validated enough signatures on a petition to move to the next stage in a process to remove President Maduro.

The Pentagon will lift its ban on openly transgender service personnel next month, US officials say.

A rare blue parrot which was believed to be extinct in the wild has been spotted in Brazil for the first time in 15 years.

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.