A coalition government has been agreed in Italy, ending months of uncertainty in the EU's fourth-biggest economy.

Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte presented his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a week and the new government will be sworn in on Friday.

Denmark has on Thursday passed a ban on wearing of Niqab or Burka The law was passed by 75 votes to 30 in parliament and will come into force on 1 August. It becomes the latest in a number of EU countries to pass such a ban, which mainly affects Muslim women wearing a Niqab or Burka.

The family members of a child dramatically rescued while dangling from a balcony in Paris have expressed their immense gratitude to the Malian man who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of migrant Mamoudou Gassama, who climbed four floors to pull the child to safety.

Spain's Mariano Rajoy lost a confidence vote in Parliament on Friday, making his government the first in Spanish history to fall in this way.

His political opponent Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the main opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), now automatically becomes prime minister.

Rajoy's fall follows years of corruption allegations against his Popular Party. The corruption scandal culminated last week in a court convicting his former aides of running slush funds to help finance Popular Party election campaigns.

European judges have ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two al-Qaeda terror suspects by helping the CIA to mistreat them.

The US captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri after the September 2001 attacks in the US and they are now at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The CIA operated secret prisons, including in Lithuania and Romania.

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German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer talked to Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche in Berlin on Monday to debate a current regulatory probe of software devices found by the KBA motor vehicle authority in some Mercedes cars during regular checks. Daimler last week ordered the recall of Vito vans fitted with 1.6-liter engines because they were found to breach emissions regulations.