France: France's Mont Saint-Michel abbey has reopened after several hours of searching by police failed to locate a visitor who allegedly threatened French security services. A trickle of tourists started returning to the Mont across a promontory that connects the popular site in the English Channel to the mainland. French authorities evacuated tourists and others from the Mont Saint-Michel abbey and monument on Sunday morning after hearing about the reported threat. The site was closed for about four hours. The gendarme service says police have expanded their search to neighbouring towns.
Norway: A Norwegian man suspected by Russia of espionage has admitted to being a courier for Norway's military intelligence, his Norwegian lawyer says. Frode Berg, a retired former guard on the Norwegian-Russian border, has been detained since his arrest in Moscow last December, but had little knowledge of the operation he took part in, Berg's lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told daily Dagbladet and broadcaster NRK. "We're quite certain that what he did in Russia was partly to carry out tasks for Norwegian intelligence," Risnes told NRK, while adding that his client felt he had been let down by those who had sent him. "He did not understand the extent of this or how dangerous it could become," Risnes said.
Libya: Libyan coastguard officers have recovered the bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya's western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy, a spokesman says. More than 80 migrants survived the incident off the city of Sabratha, about 70km west of Tripoli, and coastguards brought them back to the nearby city of Zawiya.
Australia: An 11-year-old autistic boy who ran away from his carer while at the shops in Sydney south has been found dead after being hit by a train. Police mounted a large search involving the dog unit and Polair after he ran off at Oatley Avenue shops at about 7.15pm local timeyesterday. The boy had been staying at a respite centre, police said. He was found dead at Oatley railway station about two hours after disappearing.
United States: Former New York Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg says he will write a US$4.5 million cheque to cover this year's US financial commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. President Donald Trump last year pulled the United States out of the pact, making the country the only one opposed to it. Bloomberg, in a CBS interview, said he hopes by next year Trump will have changed his mind. Bloomberg will continue to provide money for the pact if the US does not rejoin the agreement, according to a news release from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charity he founded.
