Nasa returns first asteroid samples to earth

A space capsule containing the first samples of an asteroid ever brought to Earth is undergoing initial checks. The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.

Thousands of people flee from their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia after a brief conflict with Azerbaijan last week.

Kosovo and Serbia have traded accusations over a deadly stand-off between ethnic Serb gunmen and police in northern Kosovo, which led to the deaths of four people.

And France is to withdraw its ambassador and its forces from Niger, after a two-month stand-off since a military coup in Niamey.