President Barack Obama awards two World War I army heroes, one black and one Jewish, posthumous medals for their heroics 100 years ago.

US Secretary of State John Kerry undergoes successfully surgery on a broken leg and will be "walking by Wednesday", his doctors say.

The EU says that it has brokered an agreement for early elections in Macedonia to end months of unrest sparked by corruption allegations.

Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter is being investigated by US officials as part of their inquiry into corruption, US media reports say.

Divers spend the night searching a cruise ship which capsized in China's Yangtze River, but the death toll rises to 18 and hundreds are still missing.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to travel to Brussels where he will be presented with a new plan to solve Greece's debt crisis.

Australia's economy grew at a better-than-expected 0.9% in the first quarter of 2015, compared to the previous quarter, boosted by mining together with financial and insurance services.

The Large Hadron Collider is about to pave the way to a new era in physics, as it begins scientific investigations once again after a two-year hiatus.