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There are only a relatively few people who have access to the following rooms of the powerful and influential across the world. Others are less private but boast fantastic architecture and design.

Luca Zanier, a photographer “invaded” these rooms and took fantastic pictures to present them to us… “common people”.

UN General Assembly, New York

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday said his country is willing to accept a share of the 40,000 refugees, mainly from Syria and Eritrea, who recently arrived in Greece and Italy, which Brussels wants distributed round the EU.

Milanovic made the offer ahead of an EU summit dominated by migration issues and the Greek crisis.

The issue of Kosovo is not resolved, as Pristina believes, Ivica Dacic said on Friday, while "Serbia wants to continue the status-neutral talks in Brussels."

French anti-terrorism authorities have said the man who allegedly committed a factory attack in Grenoble was known to the intelligence services.

The senior anti-terrorism prosecutor has personally taken over the case, France 24 reports.

A meeting between Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, German Chancellor Merkel and French President Francois Hollande concluded in Brussels on Friday.

China said on Friday that it was confident Greece's talks with creditors to avoid defaulting on its debt would go positively, in comments made ahead of Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Europe next week.

By Mehul Srivastava & Nikos Chrysoloras

How much should be the sales tax for a beer and kebab in an Athens taverna? How much for a carton of milk at the local shop? Or bought on an island instead of the mainland?

French President Francois Hollande on June 26 condemned violent protests against ride-booking app Uber after taxi drivers set fire to vehicles and blocked highways but he said the service should be taken off the road.

Hollande described the demonstrations, in which US rocker Courtney Love was caught up, as "unacceptable violence in a democracy, in a country like France."  

Fractious European leaders argued into the early hours on June 26 over how to handle over a migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, agreeing a plan to share out the care of desperate people fleeing war and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi rebuked fellow EU leaders on June 25 for failing to agree a plan to take in 40,000 asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece, saying they were not worthy of calling themselves Europeans.