Julian Assange says reports of Ecuador planning to smuggle him out of its London embassy and of alleged clashes with staff at the diplomatic mission are a "false attack" on him.
ELSEWHERE:
ISTANBUL - Heart-breaking pictures of a toddler's lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach have sparked horror as the cost of Europe's burgeoning refugee crisis hit home.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Islamic State has claimed twin bombings of a Shi'ite mosque that killed at least 28 people and wounded 75 in the Yemeni capital.
BUDAPEST - Tensions in Hungary between migrants and police are threatening to boil over as hundreds of mainly young men faced off against police blocking their path into Budapest's main international train station.
LONDON - British former tabloid news editor Rebekah Brooks, who resigned at the height of the phone-hacking scandal, will return to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp as chief executive of its UK division.
BONN, Germany - Tree cover has nearly halved since the start of human civilisation and the pace of deforestation has not abated.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has secured a landmark foreign policy victory as US Senate Democrats amassed enough votes to ensure the Iran nuclear deal survives in Congress, despite ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel.
HOUSTON - A 19-year-old Texas man is dead after he accidentally shot himself while posing for a selfie with a gun.
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