Ukraine's interior ministry says the military is now in full control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk after a day of bloody clashes.

More than 30 pro-Russia separatists were reported killed after an attempt to seize the airport early on Monday.

New President Petro Poroshenko vowed to tackle the eastern uprising in hours, not months. Russia has called for an immediate end to military action.

Britain and France have called for EU reforms, as leaders arrive for a summit in Brussels after elections which gave a boost to Eurosceptic parties.

President Francois Hollande asked Europe to "pay attention" to the events in France, where his Socialist party lost to the far-right National Front.

Mr Cameron, whose Conservatives lost to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), said Brussels was "too big, too bossy".

Pope Francis has announced he will meet a group of sex abuse victims next month after comparing the "ugly crime" to performing "a satanic Mass".

Speaking after his Middle East tour, Pope Francis said he will show zero tolerance for anyone in the Roman Catholic Church who abuses children.

"Sexual abuse is such an ugly crime ... because a priest who does this betrays the body of the Lord," he said.

Poland's last communist leader, Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski, will be buried in Warsaw's Powazki cemetery, officials say, despite widespread opposition.

But it will not be a state funeral and there will no day of national mourning.

Critics say Gen Jaruzelski does not deserve to be buried at such a prestigious cemetery because he was a traitor who had blood on his hands.

he proportion of Britons who admit to being racially prejudiced has risen since the start of the millennium, raising concerns that growing hostility to immigrants and widespread Islamophobia are setting community relations back 20 years.

New data from NatCen's authoritative British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, obtained by the Guardian, shows that after years of increasing tolerance, the percentage of people who describe themselves as prejudiced against those of other races has risen overall since 2001.

Wealth inequality has risen to stratospheric heights. The statistics, the real statistics, sound like fragments spun off from a madman's dream.

Eighty-five people have as much money as three and a half billion other people. Look at it like this: 85 people = 3,500,000,000 people.

Forbes Magazine, which used to gleefully refer to itself as a "capitalist tool," creates an annual list of the richest 400 people in the world. Ten years ago, their combined wealth was $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars). Now, after a world wide crash and all sort of bailouts, their combined worth is $2,000,000,000,000. They've doubled their money. How've you done?

Capitalism is at risk of destroying itself unless bankers realise they have an obligation to create a fairer society, the Bank of England governor has warned.

Mark Carney said bankers had operated a "heads-I-win-tails-you-lose" system. He questioned whether traders met ethical standards and said that those who failed to meet high professional standards should face ostracism.

Speaking at a City conference, the Bank's governor warned that there was a growing sense that the basic social contract at the heart of capitalism was breaking down amid rising inequality. "We simply cannot take the capitalist system, which produces such plenty and so many solutions, for granted. Prosperity requires not just investment in economic capital, but investment in social capital."

More than half of the developing world's workers are trapped in vulnerable jobs, working for themselves or in unpaid family work, according to a report that calls for better quality employment to drive economic growth.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) also highlights an urgent need for 200m new jobs in emerging countries in its annual World of Work report. Without them, young people will be worst hit as youth unemployment rates soar even higher above the jobless rate for all adults, it warns.

The United Nations agency uses its flagship report this year to underscore what it sees as a link between secure, fairly paid work and more stable economic growth in developing countries.

Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash have been by the Battle of Actium in 30BC? This is the calculation performed by the investment banker Jeremy Grantham.

Go on, take a guess. Ten times the size of the pyramids? All the sand in the Sahara? The Atlantic ocean? The volume of the planet? A little more? It's 2.5 billion billion solar systems. It does not take you long, pondering this outcome, to reach the paradoxical position that salvation lies in collapse.

To succeed is to destroy ourselves. To fail is to destroy ourselves. That is the bind we have created. Ignore if you must climate change, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of water, soil, minerals, oil; even if all these issues miraculously vanished, the mathematics of compound growth make continuity impossible.

The US will keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after the US concludes its combat mission at the end of this year, President Barack Obama has said.

Under the plan he announced at the White House, the US will then gradually withdraw troops until only a small residual force remains after 2016.

The remaining troops would guard the US embassy, train Afghan forces and support counter-terrorism operations.

Egypt's presidential election has been extended by one more day in an effort to boost low turnout that threatened to undermine the credibility of the vote likely to be won by the former army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

The decision followed lower-than-expected turnout in the originally two-day vote that was due to end on Tuesday at 18GMT.

While the Egyptian government declared a national holiday for Tuesday in an effort to get voters to cast their ballots, an official with international monitoring group Global Network for Rights and Development reported that voter turnout was noticibly low.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to unveil a unity government by Thursday, ending seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza, an official has said.

"We have finished consultations on the national consensus government," Azzam al-Ahmed, an envoy from Abbas's Fatah movement, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday after talks in Gaza with its Hamas rulers.

"The announcement will come from the president in the next two days."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif had a 50-minute meeting here Tuesday, one day after Modi was sworn in as head of the Indian government.

Local media reports said Modi raised the issue of terrorism and 2008 Mumbai attacks during the talks, which were previously assumed to be focused on economy and trade.

Before Sharif, Modi met Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and other South Asian leaders. But, all eyes were on his talks with the Pakistani prime minister.

Thailand's coup leader Prayuth Chan- ocha failed to give a timeframe about the next election after he was endorsed as chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) by a royal command Monday, but some Thai academics believe a new election is unlikely to take place within a year.

Prayuth has vowed to implement sweeping reforms before elections, saying democracy will return once peace and order is restored in the country.

"The minimum, we will not have the election in a year...you have to remember we have to have political reforms and new constitution and that will take time," a renowned political analyst from Chulalongkorn University told Xinhua.

Russian energy minister said on Tuesday he expected the incoming Ukrainian president to revive stalled negotiations over Russia's natural gas supplies to the country.

"A leadership (in Ukraine) has appeared with whom it is possible to strike deals and to conduct consultation for a certain period," Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told the state-run Russia-24 TV channel.

Preliminary official results showed Petro Poroshenko, a 48-year-old billionaire and independent politician, retained a strong lead in Sunday's presidential election.

The economic crisis could have intensified the obesity epidemic in rich nations as people switched to cheaper and less healthy foods, acccording to a report.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development also found that the drop in physical activity for those who lost their job was likely to have contributed to higher obesity rates in some places.

In an update to its work on the economics of obesity begun in 2010, the Paris-based thinktank found the epidemic had spread further in the past five years, although rates have been increasing at a slower pace than before.

RT @Jonathan__Leake: Stop the wind turbine menace! Another shocking illustration of landscapes ruined by #windfarms pic.twitter.com/kg5nPIbSXV

— Tom Raftery (@TomRaftery) May 28, 2014

As Techdirt reported last year, one of the most bizarre episodes in the unfolding story of the Snowden leaks was when two experts from the UK's GCHQ oversaw the destruction of the Guardian's computers that held material provided by Snowden. As everyone -- including the Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger -- pointed out, this was a particularly pointless act since copies of the documents were held elsewhere, outside the UK. The only possible explanation seemed to be that the UK government was trying to put the frighteners on the Guardian, and engaged in this piece of theater to ram the point home. But a fascinating blog post from Privacy International raises the possibility that there is another far more disturbing explanation:  

It is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve. Why is Amazon UK selling the Saints of the Shadow Bible, the latest instalment of Ian Rankin's best-selling series about the Edinburgh sleuth, for half the price being advertised on its United States website?

The answer is that Detective Inspector John Rebus has joined the list of casualties in Amazon's battle with Rankin's publisher, Hachette, over how to split the generous profit margins publishers make on ebooks - which in some cases can be 75% of the cover price.

The dispute has also dragged in JK Rowling and the best-selling American writer James Patterson, and broke into the open on Friday, when the world's largest bookseller started turning the thumbscrew on the French-owned publisher.

Archaeologists unearthing the remains of a Roman fort on the west coast of Cumbria have discovered what is believed to be a lost Roman harbour.

Oxford Archaeology and a team of volunteers are excavating an extramural settlement at Maryport Roman fort.

The team has now unearthed what is believed to be an earlier fort and lost Roman harbour to the north of the site.

Nairo Quintana moved into the overall lead in the Giro d'Italia after winning a controversial stage 16 with a powerful display in tricky conditions.

Quintana's climbing abilities helped him turn a large deficit on Rigoberto Uran into a one minute 41 seconds lead.

Confusion over whether the Stelvio descent was neutralised, where riders do not compete for safety reasons, caused chaos and anger among the teams.