INTERNATIONAL

EU interior ministers are to discuss how to deal with tens of thousands of migrants trying to enter Europe each year by crossing the Mediterranean. A key issue at the talks in Luxembourg is a plan to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across all 28 EU states. The crisis has put a huge strain on Italian, Greek and Maltese resources. ...

A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike in Libya, officials say. Mokhtar Belmokhtar and other fighters were killed in the raid by aircraft in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, a statement from Libya’s government said. The US has confirmed Belmokhtar was targeted ...

The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November. It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat. The comet has since moved nearer to the Sun ...

A South African court has issued an interim order preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country. It says Mr Bashir will have to stay until the court hears an application later on Sunday on whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Mr Bashir is in Johannesburg for an African Union ...

UK intelligence agents have been moved because Russia and China have access to classified information which reveals how they operate, a senior government source has told the BBC. According to the Sunday Times, Moscow and Beijing have deciphered documents stolen by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The government source told the BBC the countries “have information” that led to agents being moved ...

US Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is holding the first major rally in her presidential campaign. Mrs Clinton is outlining her key policies in a speech to thousands of supporters on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. Her campaign team hopes to boost approval ratings, which have flagged since her soft-launch in April. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and daughter Chelsea ...

The police headquarters in the US city of Dallas, Texas, has come under attack by an unknown number of gunmen who opened fire on officers. One suspect fled the scene in what was described as an armoured van and is involved in a standoff in a car park. A number of bags were found outside the police HQ, at least ...

Hackers with suspected links to China appear to have accessed sensitive data on US intelligence and military personnel, American officials say. Details of a major hack emerged last week, but officials have now given details of a potential second breach. It is feared that the attack could leave US security personnel or their families open to blackmail. The agency involved, ...

A French court has acquitted former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of procuring prostitutes for sex parties in France, Belgium and the US. Mr Strauss-Kahn stood alongside 13 co-defendants, most of whom were also acquitted of “aggravated pimping”. He has always denied knowing that some of the women who took part in orgies he attended were prostitutes. Lurid details of the ...

A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane has made an emergency landing in Australia after reporting a possible engine fire. Flight MH148 was travelling from Melbourne to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. Plane tracking sites showed the flight circling the airport several times. Fire engines were at the scene but officials at Melbourne airport said it had landed safely at around 15:00 ...