Canada’s Barrick Gold is buying Randgold Resources, creating the world’s biggest gold miner with a value of about $18bn (£14bn).

France’s government spokesman says that the country is seeking a solution with other EU members after humanitarian groups operating a rescue ship with 58 migrants aboard want to be allowed to disembark in the French southern port of Marseille.

Archaeologists have found a 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Portugal, in what one specialist called the “discovery of a decade”.

Spices, ceramics and cannons engraved with Portugal’s coat of arms all lie around the wreck, found near Cascais, close to the capital Lisbon.

An Indonesian teenager who looked after a fishing hut survived for 49 days at sea by cooking fish over wood taken from his vessel, it has emerged.

Aldi Novel Adilang was on the hut 125km (77 miles) off the Indonesian coast in mid-July when heavy winds caused its moorings to snap, casting the 18-year-old adrift.