Argentina blames the US for its default, calling the mediator in debt negotiations which ended in failure "incompetent".

The imam of China's largest mosque - in the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang - has been killed, in what appears to be a targeted assassination.

Italian police secure the arrest of members of a mafia clan across Europe - with information from a woman once held as a virtual prisoner by the clan.

Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden's year-long leave to stay in Russia expires without confirmation that it will be extended.

The owner and head foreman of a farm in southern Greece are cleared over the shooting and wounding of a group of Bangladeshi migrant workers.

A series of gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 15 people and injure scores of others.

Argentina's Economy Minister Axel Kicillof says his offer to "hold-out" investors has been rejected and a mediator says default is "imminent".

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution authorising a lawsuit against the president for alleged overreach of his authority.