Emily Taylor

Most British businesses want the UK to renegotiate its relationship with the EU, according to a British Chambers of Commerce survey.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi forces reach the besieged town of Amerli, where thousands of people have been trapped by jihadists, military officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Leaders of five of El Salvador’s powerful gangs say they will stop attacking police and military in a bid to re-launch a gang truce agreed two years ago.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

President Putin calls for talks on “statehood” for eastern Ukraine and says it is “impossible to predict” the end of the crisis.
BBC News – Europe

Police reject criticism of their search for a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was removed from a UK hospital by his parents against medical advice.
BBC News – UK

Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted into the National Football League, fails to make the final roster for the St Louis Rams.
BBC News – US & Canada

Senegal’s health ministry confirms a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country now affected by the outbreak.
BBC News – Africa

Housing experts are calling for minimum standards in the private rental market to prevent landlords from exploiting vulnerable tenants.
BBC News – Business

The UN says Syria is now “the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era” with more than three million Syrians living outside the country as refugees.
BBC News – Middle East

Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group begin leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

EU leaders are to meet in Brussels to consider how to respond to Russia following accusations that its troops are fighting inside Ukraine.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to meet for talks to try to reach agreement on new measures to tackle the threat posed by Islamist extremists.
BBC News – UK

The US has imposed new sanctions on companies and individuals in connection with Iran’s nuclear programme.
BBC News – US & Canada

Soldiers in Lesotho have seized the police HQ and surrounded a key government building in a possible coup attempt, officials in the southern African nation say.
BBC News – Africa

Thunder players represent Oklahoma City throughout the course of the season and in the playoffs, but this summer, Serge Ibaka will have a
Oklahoma City Thunder

Malaysia Airlines says the full financial impact of the two tragedies to hit the company will be seen in the second half of the year.
BBC News – Business

Islamic State (IS) militants appear to have killed “dozens” of Syrian soldiers captured after gaining control of the Tabqa airbase, activists say.
BBC News – Middle East

Sections of Argentina’s General Confederation of Labour are holding a 36-hour strike, which has caused disruption in the capital Buenos Aires.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Nato releases satellite images which it says show Russian forces inside Ukraine to help rebels fight government troops – a claim Russia denies.
BBC News – Europe

Tory MP Douglas Carswell has defected to the UK Independence Party – and says he will seek re-election in Clacton at a by-election.
BBC News – UK