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China and the European Union (EU) will hold a meeting later this week to discuss problems concerning trade and economic cooperation between the two sides.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they would sign an agreement on securing and destroying nuclear material.
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) plans to invest 100 million euros ($133 million) on new technologies and hiring more people to expand Internet surveillance, local media reported over the weekend.
Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday the armed forces could be called up if needed to help quell popular protests.
Amid the biggest security operation ever mounted in Northern Ireland, the G8 Summit kicked off on Monday.
Three young men have been charged with aggravated violence over an attack on Chinese students in southwest France, prosecutors said on Monday.
A smiling Prince Philip, the 92-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, left hospital after 11 days on Monday, slightly earlier than expected, following an operation on his abdomen.
A British Airways Airbus A380 lands at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, one day before the start of the 50th Paris Air Show, June 16, 2013. The Paris Air Show runs from June 17 to 23.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul overnight on Sunday, erecting barricades and starting bonfires, after riot police firing teargas and water cannon stormed a park at the center of two weeks of anti-government unrest.
A violent attack on six Chinese students in southwestern France has provoked widespread outrage and safety concerns in China as well as the Chinese community in France.
At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, Obama will try to find common ground with Putin on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern Ireland after angering the Kremlin.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was forced to quit on Sunday by a graft and spying scandal involving his closest aide.