4.There has been another day of heavy fighting in Syria with government troops seizing more terroritory around Aleppo while rebel forces launched a contra-affensive in the central city of Hamar.
5.Ms Gopinath's research is reason to doubt ultra-doveish monetary policy can produce growth, but it does not support the idea that it can cut inflation, either, contra Mr Erdogan.
6.Republican Senator David Durenberger of Minnesota, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said the CIA had assured him that the plane, its pilots and cargo had no connection to US government efforts to support the contras.