Top 5 - Fri, Aug, 28, 2015 - 16:00 GMT

Migrants pray over the dead body of an unidentified refugee from Syria found off the Greek coast by the Greek Coast Guard, in the cemetery of Agios Panteleimonas in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, on August 28, 2015. Greece

1. Europe’s asylum seeker crisis is deepening. Hundreds of refugees are feared dead as two vessels capsize off Libya, and over 70 asylum seekers are found dead in a truck in Austria.

2. More civilians are killed in Saudi airstrikes on Yemen. The latest attacks leave at least nine people dead and many more injured.

3. Iraq’s top Shia cleric warns anti-corruption protesters about groups that may seek to hijack their movement as more rallies are held in the capital Baghdad.

4. The Turkish Prime Minister forms an interim government ahead of November the first elections after the failure of coalition talks.

5. And Greece's new caretaker government is sworn in ahead of snap elections set for September 20, the debt-ridden country’s fifth vote in six years.


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