Emily Taylor

The UK unemployment rate falls to 6.4% in the three months to June, close to a six-year low but wage growth is the slowest on record.
BBC News – Business

French President Francois Hollande says France will supply arms to Iraq’s Kurds “in the coming hours”.
BBC News – Middle East

Eight gunmen in Chile steal more than $ 10m (£6.2m) from an armoured van carrying cash to Santiago airport in the biggest robbery in the country’s history.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A landslide in Switzerland derails a train in a “serious accident” amid reports that carriages plunged into a ravine.
BBC News – Europe

Britain will “play a role” in an international mission to rescue Yazidi refugees who have fled Islamic extremists in Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron says.
BBC News – UK

Lauren Bacall, one of Hollywood’s biggest post-war stars, has died at home in New York after a career spanning seven decades.
BBC News – US & Canada

The World Health Organization classifies Kenya as a high-risk country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
BBC News – Africa

Players can watch countless hours of film, sit down with veterans to get advice and walk through offensive sets and defensive coverages,
Oklahoma City Thunder

Electricity company EDF temporarily shuts down two of its nuclear power stations, Heysham 1 and Hartlepool.
BBC News – Business

US President Barack Obama says the nomination of Haider al-Abadi as Iraq’s prime minister-designate is a “promising step forward”.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela deploys 17,000 troops along its Colombian border, shutting in the first of a month of nightly closures to tackle smuggling.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine and Russia say they agree to a Red Cross-led humanitarian aid mission to the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Luhansk.
BBC News – Europe

There are warnings that anti-extremism measures for schools in the wake of the Trojan Horse inquiries are rushed and could have unintended consequences.
BBC News – UK

The family of an unarmed black teenager killed by police in the US city of St Louis have called for justice for their son, as the FBI investigates.
BBC News – US & Canada

Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, Zmapp, to treat people infected with Ebola, the government says following a request to the US.
BBC News – Africa

Several UK firms have been hit by a Russian ban on food imports from a number of Western countries.
BBC News – Business

Israel and Palestinian factions accept a fresh 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza conflict, paving the way for indirect talks in Egypt.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela says it will close its border with Colombia each night from Monday to try to curb large-scale smuggling of petrol and food.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Outgoing Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins the country’s first direct presidential election, with his main rival admitting defeat.
BBC News – Europe

The UK is to “step up” aid supplies and send more “humanitarian advisers” to parts of Iraq under threat from Islamist militants, Downing Street says.
BBC News – UK