Marathon Eurozone Talks On Greek Debt Crisis

An emergency summit of Eurozone leaders is continuing through the night in Brussels to try to find a compromise that would enable Greece to avoid running out of money and to keep the single currency. The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, is anxious to strike a deal before any Greek banks collapse; a prospect which could be just days away.

The Mexican authorities have launched a large-scale manhunt for one of the world's most powerful drug lords, Joaquin Guzman, following his escape from a high security prison at the weekend. Blackhawk helicopters have been seen flying over the Altiplano prison west of Mexico City where he'd been held, and flights have been suspended at a nearby airport. Prison staff are being questioned after it was learned he had managed to escape through a one-kilometre long tunnel. It's the second time "El Chapo" has escaped.

This week on Newsday we are running a series of interviews with young African poets. All 6 of them have been nominated for this year's Brunel University African Poetry Prize - it is a major annual poetry prize of £3,000 (around US$4,600) aimed at the promotion of poetry from Africa. Today we here from London-based, Nigerian poet Inua Ellams, 30, who is from Jos in Plateau State. He began by reading his poem "Nigerian Pastoral". It is about the massacre committed by Boko Haram in Baga town in Borno state in early January this year.

(Photo: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with French President Francois Hollande, centre, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a meeting of Eurozone leaders at the European Union Council building in Brussels. Credit: AP)