On Patrol in Northern Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk in northern Iraq talks of how the advance by Islamic State forces or Daesh has been halted to some extent by Peshmerga forces.

A stand-off between refugees and police is continuing through the night at a railway station west of Budapest as Hungary refuses to let their train through to the Austrian border.

The approval of a film about an interracial love affair between a Chinese and French couple is being hailed in China.

(Photo: Soldiers of the Christian militia group The Niveneh Plain Protection Unit on patrol on the front line with IS near Mosul)