Emily Taylor

The UN Security Council rejects a resolution demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within three years.
BBC News – Middle East

Haiti’s President Michel Martelly reaches a deal with lawmakers to extend the mandate of legislators and avoid a political vacuum.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is among 100 people detained at a Moscow rally, hours after being sentenced to house arrest for fraud.
BBC News – Europe

The creators of the World War One ceramic poppy display at the Tower of London join acting grandees Joan Collins and John Hurt on the New Year Honours list.
BBC News – UK

Police in the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, find the body of a man after the shooting of eight people, including two children.
BBC News – US & Canada

The president of The Gambia says he remains in charge of the West African state after his security forces thwarted an attempted coup.
BBC News – Africa

“Today was a work day,” Thunder center Kendrick Perkins said as he ste
Oklahoma City Thunder

DALLAS – Two high-powered teams entered the arena on Sunday night, and it produced a classic Thunder-Mavericks showdown
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Jon Moulton, the founder of the investment firm which owned collapsed UK parcel delivery service City Link, says it couldn’t have handled the firm’s administration any better.
BBC News – Business

The parents of one of the three al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt are optimistic they will be released, on the first anniversary of their arrest.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican bullfighter Karla de los Angeles sustains cuts to her thigh and gluteal muscles as she is gored by a bull at a fight in Mexico City.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The death toll following a fire on the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu rises to seven, as all remaining passengers and crew are evacuated.
BBC News – Europe

A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane “is preparing to implement a non-standard landing” at Gatwick airport because of “a technical issue with one of the landing gears”, the airline says.
BBC News – UK

Controversial Sony film The Interview becomes the studio’s most downloaded film ever, just four days after its release online.
BBC News – US & Canada

Cameroon has carried out air strikes against militant Islamist group Boko Haram for the first time, after it seized a military base, officials say.
BBC News – Africa

The Thunder has had a run of close games and come out on the high side and a little short, but is learning from each experience.
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UK house prices rose by an average of £16,000 – or 8.5% – in 2014, according to the mortgage lender Halifax.
BBC News – Business

A court in Egypt reduces to one year the three-year jail sentences given to eight men for appearing in a video alleged to show a gay marriage.
BBC News – Middle East

A Mexican priest who was kidnapped earlier this week is found shot dead in the south-western state of Guerrero.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Snow and ice strand 15,000 vehicles in the French Alps, snarling up holiday traffic to and from ski resorts.
BBC News – Europe