介绍:
(Brain)
First up, in Asia,
Video footage has emerged showing a man leaving a backpack inside the Bangkok shrine where a bomb exploded on Monday, killing at least 27 people, including 6 Chinese nationals.
Sri Lanka's ruling United National Party has won the most seats in the parliamentary elections, blocking former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's attempt to return to power.
(LK)
Turning to Oceania,
In Australia, a maximum security prisoner is back behind bars after staging an audacious escape.
Staying in the country, Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told his joint party room that ministers have been "read the riot act" for having public spats in the wake of last week's messy gay marriage debate.
(MB)
Moving on to Africa,
Reports in Nigeria say as many as 60 people may have been killed after a raid on a village in the country's north-east by suspected Boko Haram militants.
Rebels have accused South Sudan's government of resuming military attacks, a day after President Salva Kiir failed to sign a peace deal aimed at ending the civil war.
(Brian)
And in the Middle East,
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has dismissed as worthless a parliamentary report blaming him for the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State group.
In Syria, IS militants have beheaded an antiquities scholar in the city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site.
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Looking to Latin America,
Nicaraguan Fifa official Julio Rocha, who was detained in Switzerland in May over corruption allegations, has been charged with money laundering.
In Ecuador, hundreds of thousands of people living south of the capital Quito, are said to be at risk from an eruption of the Cotopaxi volcano.
(Brain)
And in Europe,
A man who hid from the Charlie Hebdo gunmen is suing French media for revealing his whereabouts.
Spanish police are looking to fine a woman who photographed officers parking in a disabled bay, under a controversial new "gag law".
