A Polish artisan is combining her love of wild flowers and nature, hand making paper infused with flower seeds and glucose, giving it a second function, nurturing bees. Stuart McDill reports.

Italian government bond yields hit four-year highs on Friday, extending their rise after the European Union slammed Rome's draft budget. David Pollard reports.

Pope Francis will seriously consider the possibility of an unprecedented visit to North Korea but some conditions will have to be met, a senior Vatican official said.

Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday it had discussed a possible visit to the United States of its head, Dmitry Rogozin, with NASA, the RIA news agency reported.

People should not overplay the idea of an extension to a Brexit transition period during which Britain would keep EU rules in place after it leaves the bloc, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday.

Norwegian Air will adopt new technologies from Sweden's Avtech which will cut CO2 emissions by 16,000 tonnes per year - or a reduction of 5,000 tonnes of fuel, the budget airliner said in a press release on Friday.

OPEC is struggling to add barrels to the market after agreeing in June to increase output, an internal document seen by Reuters showed, as an increase in Saudi Arabia was offset by declines in Iran, Venezuela and Angola.

- Shares of electric carmaker up 1.6 pct at $268.21 premarket

Fish and wildlife officials accuse two members of the San Diego Yacht Club of harvesting shellfish off their yachts. The poaching scandal made waves in the yacht club community, a local paper reports.

Pistorius family patriarch, Hendrik Pistorius, has died in the early hours of the morning, at the age of 101.

A former police reservist and a teen have been shot dead in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, according to police.

The England striker was criticised by Jose Mourinho before the international break but impressed vs Spain