A brief respite for the pound ended on Monday when the British currency resumed its decline against the euro, with UK prime minister Boris Johnson readying for his first meetings with the leaders of Germany and France by repeating London's new mantra that it was ready to leave the EU without a deal.
Greenland is not for sale and US President Donald Trump's idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory from Denmark is "an absurd discussion," Denmark's prime minister has said.
Sudan's deposed leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir told investigators he had received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a detective said in court yesterday.
Spain yesterday repeated its offer to allow 107 migrants stranded for more than two weeks in the Mediterranean to land in a Spanish port, but it criticised Italy for barring them from coming ashore on an Italian island.
A Gibraltar court has rejected an American attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker, and the ship has resumed its journey into the Mediterranean under the Iranian flag and with a new name.
Hong Kong is gearing up for further protests this week after hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators braved heavy rain to rally peacefully on Sunday, marking a change to what have often been violent clashes.
Authorities in Romania say a patient at a psychiatric hospital has beaten to death five other patients with a drip stand and wounded several more.
