French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the vessel was departing Marseille after a payment of "several million euros".

Local police say the missing woman's relatives are victims - and "to suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel".

Expectations for a breakthrough are low as negotiators meet at a US-brokered talks to try end the war.

Expectations for a breakthrough are low as delegations meet for a third time to try and negotiate an end to the war.

Firefighters say they do not know why the victims could not escape the blaze in the building's upper floor.

The US civil rights activist's influence spread from the churches of the Deep South to the White House.

Former NRL star Matt Utai is in a "critical condition" after being shot multiple times outside his home in Sydney, Australia.