Chess: Armenia’s Samvel Ter-Sahakyan won silver at the World Youth Chess Championship in Porto Karras, Greece. Samvel Ter-Sahakyan was leading the U18 category until the last round, where he suffered a defeat by Russia’s Alexander Shimanov.
Speaking at a joint news conference with his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze in Tbilisi, Iran's top diplomat said that the two countries are determined to strengthen economic cooperation.
Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO to protest at the cultural organization’s description of the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, near Bethlehem in the West Bank, as a mosque.