Worldwide current events

• Fuad Masum is elected President of Iraq by the Iraqi parliament.
• The Séléka and anti-balaka militias agree to a ceasefire in the Central African Republic civil war.
• Air Algérie Flight 5017 (aircraft pictured), en route from Ouagadougou to Algiers, crashes in Mali, killing all 116 people on board.
• TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in the Penghu Islands of Taiwan, killing 48 people on board.
• Joko Widodo is elected President of Indonesia.

In golf, Rory McIlroy wins the Open Championship.