Greek banks, shut nearly three weeks ago, are to reopen on Monday after the European Central Bank raised the level of emergency funding available.

Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic.

Australia is to hold a memorial service to mark a year since the MH17 air disaster over Ukraine, in which 298 people, including 39 Australians, died.

A man who killed 12 people and injured 70 others when he opened fire in a crowded Colorado cinema in 2012 is found guilty of murder.

Federal prosecutors in Brazil open a formal inquiry into alleged influence-peddling by the former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Legendary Uruguayan forward Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia, who scored the winning goal against Brazil in the World Cup in 1950, dies at the age of 88.

Japanese authorities urge at least 350,000 people to flee as Typhoon Nangka makes landfall on the southern island of Shikoku.

Ash spewing from two volcanoes in Indonesia prompts the closure of three more airports, which means five are now shut as millions head home for the Eid holiday.