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The ride-booking app Uber is fighting New York's city hall, which wants to keep in check a fleet of vehicles that already far outnumbers the Big Apple's trademark yellow cabs.

The World Surf League, which organised the J-Bay Open, said two sharks were spotted in the water near Fanning and his rival Julian Wilson, also from Australia.

Israel's leader says an "aggressive and confrontational speech" by Iran's supreme leader.

Most of the prisoners in Syrian jails being prosecuted under "anti-terror" laws are opponents of the Syrian government or those who have taken part in the uprising that began in March 2011.

Khamenei also said nuclear agreement would not alter Iran's support for the governments of Syria and Iraq nor its backing of "oppressed people" in Yemen and Bahrain, and the Palestinians.

Chinese doctors have successfully implanted a 3D printed skull on a three-year-old girl with a 20 kg head after a 17-hour-long ground-breaking surgery.

The international airport serving Surabaya, and four smaller airports were closed on the eve of the Muslim holiday by the eruption of Mount Raung on the main island of Java.

China has begun building a 314-metre high dam which will be among the world's tallest, officials said, as the country massively expands hydropower.

The main purpose for imaging of the Sun by Curiosity and other Mars rovers has been to monitor how its apparent brightness is affected by dust in Mars' atmosphere above the rovers.

Euro zone leaders agreed on a roadmap to a possible third bailout for near-bankrupt Greece on Monday, but Athens must enact key reforms this week before they will start talks to keep it in the European currency area.

The hashtag appeared to originate on Sunday evening from Sandro Maccarrone, "The Eurogroup proposal is a covert coup d'etat against the Greek people. #ThisIsACoup."

A US police officer, called to a Walmart store to investigate a woman caught shop-lifting.

Tsipras is seeking approval from Syriza for a government blueprint of reforms in return for new aid from international creditors.

A last-minute suggestion by Pallavi to head into town for some shopping instead of their daily routine of relaxing on the beach saved their lives.

The US welcoms the meeting between PM Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Russia saying the tension between the two South Asian neighbours is not in anyone's interest.

Modi pointed out that BRICS countries together form 44 per cent of the world population, contributing 40 per cent to the global GDP and 18 per cent to the world trade.