World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Germany and France have called on Greece to make detailed proposals to revive bailout talks, a day after Greek voters defiantly rejected creditors' demands for further austerity.

ELSEWHERE:

BAGHDAD - A bomb has fallen from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad because of a "technical problem", killing at least eight people and wounding 17.

GUAYAQUIL - More than a million faithful - some of whom travelled for hours and spent the night outdoors - have gathered for the first open-air mass of Pope Francis's trip to South America in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city.

CHARLESTON - US politicians in South Carolina have begun debating whether to remove a Confederate flag in the state capital that has become a focal point of outrage after the Charleston church massacre.

LONDON - Ten years after losing her legs in the 2005 London bombings, Australian woman Gill Hicks has paid tribute to the "strangers" who risked their lives to save her.

BOSTON - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a motion for a new trial, less than two weeks after he was formally sentenced to death for the 2013 attack.

LONDON - A detailed study of biological ageing suggests some individuals grow older three times faster than their birthdays suggest.


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