The first cargo ships pass through Egypt's second Suez Canal, as part of a test-run ahead of its official opening.

More than 100,000 people sign a petition against the closure of a beach on the French Riviera to allow Saudi King Salman to holiday in private.

Middle-class parents create a "glass floor" to protect less able children from slipping down the social scale in Britain, a study of 17,000 people says.

A small business commissioner will help firms tackle the problem of the billions of pounds in late payments they are owed, under government plans.

A new £3m fund is created to allow whisky connoisseurs in China to invest in some of Scotland's rarest drams.

The PM is expected to offer Indonesia and Malaysia support in tackling Islamist extremists - their "common enemy" - during a four-day trade mission.

A teenager believed to have taken nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas - at a party in south-east London dies in hospital.

Hundreds of people gather in Illinois for the funeral of Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas prison cell nearly two weeks ago after being arrested.