Emily Taylor

Mitt Romney, the Republican beaten by President Obama in the US 2012 election, has decided he will not run for president again.
BBC News – US & Canada

South African apartheid-era death squad commander Eugene de Kock, nicknamed “Prime Evil”, gets parole after 20 years for killing activists.
BBC News – Africa

NEW YORK CITY – The energy wasn’t quite right in the Thunder’s loss to the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
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Falling oil prices are forcing Royal Dutch Shell to cut back investment by some $ 15bn over the next three years.
BBC News – Business

Japan says it is investigating a purported new voice recording of hostage Kenji Goto, who is being held by Islamic State.
BBC News – Middle East

Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died in unexplained circumstances, borrowed a gun as he feared for his security, a colleague says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

EU foreign ministers are due to meet in Brussels to discuss imposing further sanctions on Russia amid an upsurge in fighting in Ukraine.
BBC News – Europe

Scores of England’s top private schools are expecting to be at the bottom of the secondary school league tables, following confusion over International GCSEs.
BBC News – UK

The US Supreme Court postpones the executions of three death row inmates who say the use of the sedative midazolam in the procedures is cruel.
BBC News – US & Canada

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in France who are tracking the Ebola outbreak in Guinea say the virus has mutated.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, Wednesday, Jan.
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Apple reports first quarter earnings of $ 18bn and record iPhone sales of 74.5 million, beating investor expectations.
BBC News – Business

Three Egyptian activists lose their final appeal against three-year prison sentences they were given last year for violating an anti-protest law.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico’s attorney general insists that 43 students who disappeared four months ago were killed and their bodies burnt and disposed of.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras forms a new cabinet with Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister and right-winger Panos Kammenos as defence minister.
BBC News – Europe

Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered for trying to “expose the corruption” at the heart of Russia’s “mafia state”, his family’s lawyer claims.
BBC News – UK

The US National Weather Service says its forecasting is “subject to error”, after predictions of a historic blizzard for New York City fell flat.
BBC News – US & Canada

Militants attack a hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli, killing at least nine people including five foreigners, officials say.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan.
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