The British Museum has stated that it intends to loan more of the Parthenon sculptures to museums around the world.

A meeting between the Prime Minister and the parents of Nikos Romanos, the 21 year old prisoner on hunger strike, achieved little.

A report by Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said many refugees, exhausted and often soaked from the sea-crossing, spend days sleeping outdoors or squashed in tiny police cells before being moved to the mainland.