Slovakian PM Igor Matovic has said he is willing to resign — under certain conditions — to put the country's coalition chaos to a rest. Coalition partners have locked horns with Matovic over his COVID-19 management.

Prime Minister Igor Matovic has pitched switching jobs to resolve the standoff over the ruling coalition's pandemic measures. However, some are calling for his removal entirely.

The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed dissatisfaction over the delay being experienced in the completion of Lagos-Ibadan railway.

Spain were unable to break down a resolute Swedish defence playing out a 0-0 draw. Also in Group E, Slovakia stunned 10-man Poland whereas Scottish hearts were broken against the Czech Republic on Day 4 of the Euro.

China is reportedly building over 100 new silos for the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

US President Joe Biden offers condolences to visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel after major floods killed at least 59 people in her country. "Chancellor Merkel, I want to express to you and to the people of Germany my sincere condolences and the condolences of the American people for the devastating loss of life and destruction due to the flooding over the past 24 hours in Germany and neighboring countries," Biden says as he opens a joint news conference from the White House in Washington, DC.

It is unpardonable that the website of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, in an Olympic year, and five years after the conclusion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has nothing about the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, but is replete with articles related to an event that took place half a decade ago. We can only hope that this lapse and other blunders noted in this video that cost Team Nigeria dearly at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be corrected before the Paris 2024 Olympics.

"Here, in this place, the name of God was dishonored," Pope Francis said at a Holocaust memorial in Bratislava. During World War II, Slovakia was governed by a Nazi puppet regime, headed by Catholic priest Jozef Tiso.

Pope Francis meets with Roma in a notorious housing project on day three of his Central Europe trip. The visit comes after he met with Holocaust survivors in Bratislava Monday.

Pope Francis expresses his personal shame and that of the Church at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, and offers the victims his prayers, after the scale of the problem was laid bare in a devastating report. An independent commission revealed earlier this week that French Catholic clergy sexually abused around 216,000 minors over seven decades since 1950, calling the scandal a "massive phenomenon" that was covered up by a "veil of silence".

A woman has died after being shot when US actor and producer Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set.

The US and UN made renewed appeals to the combatants in Ethiopia to de-escalate and work towards negotiating a truce. This comes as PM Abiy Ahmed goes to the front.