More hope for Greece bailout deal

Greece has finally offered economic reforms that creditors consider closer to being acceptable, giving Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a few days to clinch a deal that might stop the country leaving the euro.

While a firm deal between Greece and its lenders to get Athens more loans remained elusive at an emergency summit yesterday, leaders from the 19 euro nations said Mr Tsipras' new reform plan offered the basis to break a four-month deadlock in talks.