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International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the global crisis lender would assist Greece if asked.

Researchers have discovered direct physical evidence of opals on Mars, a breakthrough that could help learn more about the red planet's past and whether it once held life.

A mother has been reunited with her son in the US, who was kidnapped 15-years ago by his father, thanks to an old family photo posted on Facebook.

Official figures showed 61 per cent of Greeks had rejected a deal that would have imposed more austerity measures on an already ravaged economy.

"The time of the reaction this is the problem," Essid told the BBC in an interview. Police had been "blocked everywhere", he added.

A school headmistress has banned skirts at a secondary school in the UK's West Midlands region to prevent male teachers and pupils getting "distracted".

The women in a statement said that the incident was spontaneous and the minister was only receiving blessings from her. "He did not misbehave with me in any manner whatsoever but journalists took such pictures to create unnecessary hype," she said.

The death toll from the crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families rose to 142 on Wednesday.

Fears of a Greek default have unnerved financial markets on concerns that it would ultimately lead to the country's exit from the euro common currency

With back to back decisions that ignored bringing the economy back on track, Greece became the worst managed economy with an ineffective government.

A suicide attack in southern Afghanistan killed two civilians and wounded more than 40 when a explosive-laden lorry exploded at the gate of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah. Hemland Province.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal believes that immigrants in the US should learn English and adopt American values.

The Islamic State jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in Tunisia's recent history.

ISIS killed 120 civilians in one of the worst massacres in the town of Kobane in Syria, widely seen as a sign of Kurdish resistance.

The suspected attacker entered a factory and set off several small explosive devices; a decapitated body was also found near the factory.

A giant gorilla with brooding good looks and rippling muscles is causing a stir at a Japanese zoo, with women flocking to check out the hunky pin-up.