Spanish Government To Hold Emergency Meeting On Catalonia

The Spanish government has dismissed an offer of talks over Catalan independence. The regional president had earlier suspended plans to secede to allow for negotiations to end the crisis.

The president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has said the re-run of the presidential election will go ahead as planned later this month, despite the decision of his main rival, Raila Odinga, not to contest the ballot. The opposition leader said the vote would not be free or fair.

A new report has highlighted a tenfold rise in levels of childhood obesity around the world, in the past forty years.