World News Update, what you need to know

After a tense day of closed-door negotiations over the fate of Australian woman Sally Faulkner, 60 Minutes journalist Tara Brown and her crew, a Beirut judge has adjourned the case until Wednesday to allow talks to continue.

BAGHDAD - The United States will send more troops to Iraq, potentially putting them closer to the front lines to advise Iraqi forces in the war against Islamic State militants.

GENEVA - Syrian peace talks have come close to collapse, with the mainstream opposition announcing a "pause" in talks at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, although it agreed to keep its negotiating team in the city.

PEDERNALES - The death toll from Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades has risen to 350 as traumatised survivors rested amid the rubble of their homes and rescuers dug for survivors in the Andean nation's shattered coastal region.

JAFFA - The Israeli military has filed manslaughter charges against a soldier who shot a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground.

NEW YORK - Reuters and The New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for images of the migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East.

LONDON - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry are to host US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle for dinner at Kensington Palace.

LONDON - UK boffins claim dinosaurs were plodding down the path to extinction millions of years before the meteor impact that's widely believed to have wiped them out.