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Cuba and the United States re-established direct telephone links for the first time in 15 years, Cuba’s state telecommunications company says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, says Vladimir Putin must bear responsibility for his death.
BBC News – Europe

The police commander on the day of the Hillsborough disaster admits lying about fans forcing open an exit gate at the ground.
BBC News – UK

Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson, in charge as the US town was hit by last year’s riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager, resigns.
BBC News – US & Canada

Two lorries and a bus have collided in Tanzania’s highland region of Iringa, killing 41 people, police tell the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

Serge Ibaka, Nick Collison, Steven Adams, Enes Kanter and Mitch McGary all bring something different to the table.
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The pound has reached a seven-year high against the euro, a day after the European Central Bank (ECB) began its government bond buying programme.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi forces retake parts of the city of Tikrit from Islamic State (IS) militants, Iraqi officials say, as a major government offensive continues.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro slams the US government for imposing further sanctions on Venezuelan officials accused of human rights abuses.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Prosecutors in France open an investigation after eight French nationals, including three sports stars, die in a helicopter crash in Argentina.
BBC News – Europe

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended by the BBC “following a fracas” with a producer, the corporation says.
BBC News – UK

Two Oklahoma students who led the singing of a racist chant captured on video have been expelled, says the university’s president.
BBC News – US & Canada

A court in Ivory Coast sentences former first lady Simone Gbagbo to 20 years in jail for her role in violence after the 2010 poll.
BBC News – Africa

On Monday, the Thunder learned the stark reality that some children in Oklahoma eat a school lunch on Friday afternoon, but go without a
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British taxpayers’ stake in Lloyds Banking Group has fallen to below 23% following the latest share sales, which have netted about £500m for the Treasury.
BBC News – Business

A record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in five months in a solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse-2, gets under way in Abu Dhabi.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela is installing fingerprint scanners in supermarkets, in a move designed to help reduce food hoarding and panic buying.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

An ally of murdered Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov says he is deeply sceptical that the suspects charged organised the killing.
BBC News – Europe

The number of free schools in England will more than double to over 900 by 2020, if the Conservatives are re-elected, David Cameron is to say.
BBC News – UK

A baby girl is found alive in a car 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into a river in Utah, killing her mother.
BBC News – US & Canada