Presidential candidate Donald Trump backs House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election, days after snubbing him in a spat at the very top of the US Republican Party.

The bodies of two British climbers who went missing on Thursday have been found on the Matterhorn, Italian rescue workers say.

The French city of Nice says it will not host the European Road Cycling Championships, planned for 14-18 September, for security reasons.

An elderly Argentine human rights campaigner who was repeatedly arrested during the Dirty War agrees to give evidence in a fraud inquiry after a stand-off with police.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz quits an advisory panel to Panama's government set up after the Panama Papers scandal.

Islamist rebel groups storm an artillery base in the city of Aleppo to try to end a government siege but Damascus says the attack failed.

The 2016 Olympic Games are formally opened in a colourful ceremony celebrating Brazil's history at Rio's Maracana stadium.

A fire during a birthday party at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen kills at least 13 people and injures six.