Russia says it will be forced to retaliate against a new American law imposing sanctions on Russian officials accused of human rights violations. A foreign ministry statement in Moscow described the move as a theatre of the absurd. Earlier the US Congress gave its final approval to the measure,as part of wider legislation, lifting Cold War era restrictions on American trade with Russia.
European football's governing body, UEFA has decided to spread the marches for its championship finals in 2020 throughout the continent rather than holding them in just one or two countries. Alex Capsticks reports.
The idea of spreading Euro 2020 to various cities around continents was first mooted by UEFA's Preisent, Michel Platini. It was partly to avoid the financial burden on signal or joint hosts in a time of economic difficulty. The only objections came from Turkey which was one of the bidding candidates. It's unclear how many cities will be chosen, but Michel Platini has privately spoken of around a dozen with semi-finals and final possibly held in the same country.
A bus driver in Vienna has been praised for his honesty after he found and handed in a bag with more than $500,000 in it, which has been left on his bus by an old lady. He gave the bag to the police, who were able to identify the pensioner using a bank deposit slip found with the money. The lady had reportedly withdrawn her entire life savings from the bank. It's not known what she intended to do with the cash.