(Today/Global survey)0818 Global Survey
(Brain)
First up, in Asia,
Thailand's chief of police has said that the bomb attack that killed 20 people at Bangkok's Erawan shrine on Monday was carried out by a "network".
Chinese internet giant Tencent has taken a 50 million dollars stake in Canadian mobile messenger Kik Interactive.
(LK)
Turning to Oceania,
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that seven young Australians have been stopped on their way to join terrorists in the Middle East.
Staying in the country, Australia's government is seeking changes to environmental laws which could make it harder for green groups to challenge development projects.
(MB)
Moving on to Africa,
South Africa's justice minister has blocked the early release of athlete Oscar Pistorius from prison on Friday.
In Central African Republic, UN peacekeepers face new allegations of sexually abusing three young females, including a minor.
(Brian)
And in the Middle East,
A top UN official warns that months of conflict in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with millions in urgent need of help.
In Turkey, gunmen have fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb has killed eight soldiers in the southeast Siirt province.
(MB)
Looking to Latin America,
A Bolivian police officer is killed as security forces try to evict local people from a gold mine they have occupied north-west of La Paz.
In Venezuela, germs spread by opossums in a maternity hospital are believed to have led to the deaths of 17 babies.
(Brain)
And in Europe,
Google says data has been wiped from discs at one of its data centres in Belgium - after it was struck by lightning four times.
Two people in Poland say they may have found a Nazi train rumoured to be full of gold, gems and guns that disappeared in World War Two.
(LK)
And finally in North America,
US health officials have closed a portion of Yosemite National Park after it emerged that a second tourist might have contracted plague.
Staying in the country, a West Virginia man has been charged with making a fake bomb threat, which led to the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty in April.
(Brain)
That's the global headlines survey.