Insurgents wearing military uniforms stormed Iraq's central bank Sunday during an apparent robbery attempt, battling security forces in a three-hour standoff after bombs exploded nearby in a coordinated daylight attack that left as many as 26 people dead.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will address the UN Security Council separately on Monday over the deadly sinking of a RoK naval ship in March that has raised tensions on the Korean peninsula, Yonhap News reported on Monday.

Finland's ruling Centre Party approved Mari Kiviniemi as its new leader in a vote on June 12, paving the way for her to become the Nordic country's second female prime minister later this month.

Search crews recovered 18 bodies and were hunting for others on June 11 along a 10-mile stretch of river after a flash flood swept through a popular Arkansas campground a day earlier, rescue officials said.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of India on early June 13, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Centre-right opposition parties will win parliamentary elections in Slovakia, early results suggest.

Kyrgyzstan's interim government has given security forces shoot-to-kill powers in a bid to stop ethnic fighting which has taken nearly 80 lives.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has insisted the Nato-led force in Afghanistan is regaining the initiative from insurgents.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told France that Moscow will freeze a delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran after passage of extended U.N. sanctions against Tehran, the French president's office said on June 11.

At least 45 people are dead and more than 632 have suffered various injuries in the latest violence in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz officials said on June 11.