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UK travellers are among the air passengers facing disruption due to a strike by Italian air traffic controllers, with scores of flights cancelled.
BBC News – UK

A sweep of US government labs finds improperly stored deadly microbes, following the discovery of forgotten stores of smallpox in July.
BBC News – US & Canada

The leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US attack earlier this week, the Pentagon says.
BBC News – Africa

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A US judge rules BP was “grossly negligent” and guilty of reckless conduct in the lead-up to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BBC News – Business

Air strikes in the north of the country have killed two senior Islamic State members, state media in Iraq says, but neither death has been confirmed.
BBC News – Middle East

Torture is still rife in Mexico and routinely used to extract confessions, human rights organisation Amnesty International says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Western countries prepare further sanctions against Russia over its intervention in Ukraine ahead of peace talks due to be held on Friday.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron says he will not rule out air strikes against Islamic State, which is holding a British hostage.
BBC News – UK

Television host Joan Rivers, best known for her acerbic wit, has died in New York, says her daughter, a week after suffering cardiac arrest during surgery on her vocal cords.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Africa’s opposition leader Helen Zille is handed the “spy tapes” which she hopes will lead to corruption charges being reinstated against President Zuma.
BBC News – Africa

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The UK service sector records its fastest growth for almost a year, but recovery in the eurozone slows, closely-watched surveys suggest.
BBC News – Business

An Iranian man seeking asylum in Australia has been declared brain dead after an infected cut led to septicaemia, a refugee activist says.
BBC News – Middle East

Julio Ponce, chemicals billionaire and former son-in-law of Chile’s military ex ruler Gen Augusto Pinochet, is fined for illegal share trading.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s President Poroshenko says he has agreed with Russian President Putin in telephone talks on a “ceasefire process” for the east.
BBC News – Europe

The UK ‘will not waver’ in its aim of defeating terrorism, David Cameron says after the killing of a second US hostage and threats made against a British man.
BBC News – UK

President Obama says “justice will be served” on militants who beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff and vows the US will not be intimidated.
BBC News – US & Canada

Lesotho’s prime minister returns home after fleeing the mountain kingdom to neighbouring South Africa on Saturday, alleging there had been a coup.
BBC News – Africa

Premier League clubs have been on a player buying spree, with spending at £835m, as the end of the transfer window passes.
BBC News – Business