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How plants could be used to create a "biological solar panel"

Top Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from prison for a second time, Mexican officials say.

The Egyptian Prime Minister, Ibrahim Mahlab, has described his country as being "at war", after a bomb attack in Cairo on the Italian consulate.

Israel frees Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who had held a 56-day hunger strike in protest at his detention.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has promised to investigate sex abuse within the Church of England if the judge-led abuse inquiry does not look into the clergy within six months, survivors say.

A US civil rights group ends its economic boycott of South Carolina after the Confederate flag was removed from the grounds of the state house.

Culture Secretary John Whittingdale sets up an advisory board to carry out a fundamental review of the BBC.

Eurozone finance ministers are due to resume talks in Brussels on a bailout deal for Greece ahead of a key EU summit.

Four people were gored on the fifth day of the running of the bulls in the Spanish city of Pamplona.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calls UK government plans to stop Scottish MPs voting on legislation for England "unacceptable".