ECOWAS leaders gather to celebrate bloc's 50th anniversary
Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the current head of the rotating ECOWAS presidency, and other officials gather in Lagos to celebrate 50 years since the bloc's formation. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump says there is a high probability of a summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the near future. "There's a good chance that there will be a meeting very soon," Trump tells reporters, after the White House confirmed he was open to a meeting with Putin to discuss Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the current head of the rotating ECOWAS presidency, and other officials gather in Lagos to celebrate 50 years since the bloc's formation. IMAGES
The fresh search for British toddler Madeleine McCann enters a second day in Portugal, with police hoping to find evidence that could implicate a convicted German sex offender in her disappearance 18 years ago. Madeleine was just three years old when she vanished from an apartment on the Algarve coast where she was on holiday with her family, sparking a global campaign to find her and unprecedented media coverage. IMAGES
Mexicans vote ahead of polls closing to choose their judges in unprecedented elections that sharply divided opinion in a country plagued by rampant violent crime, corruption and impunity. The government and its supporters said the reform making Mexico the world's only nation to select all of its judges and magistrates by popular vote was needed to clean up a rotten justice system. IMAGES
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