Reuters

• 'Fair trade, fool trade': Trump vents fury on NATO allies, Trudeau

  The escalating clash over trade between Washington and some of its closest global partners cast a cloud over Trump's efforts to make history in nuclear talks with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.

• North Korean, US officials air differences on eve of summit as Trump stays positive

  US president Donald Trump said on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore could 'work out very nicely'.

• Vatican urges 'daring proposals' over allowing married priests

  A document for a meeting of Catholic bishops from the Amazon, expected to evaluate ordaining elderly married men as priests for the vast region, says the Church should make 'daring proposals'.

• Astronauts give pope personalised space suit, add white cape

  Astronauts from the International Space Station gave Pope Francis his own blue jump suit on Friday but to distinguish him from ordinary planetary pilgrims like themselves they added a white cape.

• Austria to shut down mosques, expel foreign-funded imams

  Austria's right-wing government plans to shut seven mosques and could expel dozens of imams in what it said was 'just the beginning' of a push against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups that Turkey condemned as racist.

• Afghanistan announces Eid ceasefire with Taliban until June 20

  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced for the first time an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban, coinciding with the end of the Muslim fasting month, but excluding other militant groups, such as Islamic State.

• May tells Netanyahu of concern over Gaza deaths

  Britain is concerned about the deaths of protesters in Gaza, Prime Minister Theresa May told Israel's premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, saying that the situation had deteriorated.

• Gazans send fire-starting kites into Israel; minister threatens lethal response

  Palestinians are sending kites dangling coal embers or burning rags across the Gaza border to set fire to farmland and forests, in a new tactic that an Israeli minister said should be countered with 'targeted assassinations'.

• Scores more homes destroyed by lava flow on Hawaii's Big Island

  A growing river of molten rock flowing from a fissure at the foot of Kilauea Volcano is believed to have demolished scores of additional homes and filled in a small bay at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, civil defense officials said on Tuesday.

• Churches urge drivers to end slavery at car washes

  British drivers were urged by churches across the country to look closely when they take their car to be hand washed and use a new, free mobile-phone app if they fear workers are being treated like slaves.

• Trump revives summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

  U.S. President Donald Trump, in a complete reversal, said on Friday he would hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore in the latest twist in the high-stakes diplomacy over eliminating Pyonyang's nuclear arms programme.

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  Myanmar prepared to take back 700,000 Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh

  Myanmar is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country's National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said on Saturday.