Emily Taylor

An Egyptian court designates the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, accusing it of supporting an insurgency in northern Sinai.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has announced measures to impose limits on US diplomats working in the country.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Thousands of Russians light candles and lay flowers for Boris Nemtsov, as speculation grows over the motive for the murder of President Putin’s critic.
BBC News – Europe

CCTV pictures emerge of three UK schoolgirls on the Turkish leg of what is believed to have been their journey to join Islamic State in Syria.
BBC News – UK

Lawmakers in the US avoid a partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department after passing a one-week funding extension two hours before a deadline.
BBC News – US & Canada

The vice-president of Sierra Leone puts himself into quarantine after one of his bodyguards dies from the Ebola virus.
BBC News – Africa

PORTLAND – On Thursday night, the Thunder rolled into Phoenix on a run of seven consecutive victories, but couldn’t stri
Oklahoma City Thunder

Lloyds Banking Group confirms that it will resume paying dividends to shareholders for the first time since the financial crisis in 2008.
BBC News – Business

The widow of a UK aid worker killed by “Jihadi John”, the masked IS militant identified as a man from London, tells the BBC she wants him caught alive.
BBC News – Middle East

A federal judge in Argentina dismisses accusations that President Cristina Fernandez had covered up alleged Iranian involvement in 1994 a bomb attack.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

German MPs vote overwhelmingly to extend financial aid to Greece by another four months, despite public scepticism.
BBC News – Europe

Former pop star Gary Glitter is jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980.
BBC News – UK

Eight people are dead after a series of shootings in south-central Missouri.
BBC News – US & Canada

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe admits failures in the country’s controversial land reform programme, saying some farms were “too big”.
BBC News – Africa

PHOENIX – Thunder Head Coach Scott Brooks sat on the scorer’s table at US Airways Arena in Phoenix after shootaround, ga
Oklahoma City Thunder

NUMBER OF SEASONS ON TEAM: Second YearHOMETOWN: N. Richland Hills, TX
Oklahoma City Thunder

The chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is largely owned by the UK government, is to forgo a shares allowance worth £1m.
BBC News – Business

There is growing concern over the fate of dozens of Christians abducted by Islamic State militants, amid continuing fighting in north-east Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is released from jail in the United States after serving a sentence for taking $ 2.5m in bribes.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Parliament in Austria passes a controversial new bill that reforms a century-old law on Islam, despite claims it will treat Muslims unequally.
BBC News – Europe