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Ahmed Gaid Salah emerged as de facto leader after telling veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign.
BBC News – Africa

The company is recalling half a million washing machines but some MPs are calling on it to do more.
BBC News – Business

Dubbed the “Scar of Bethlehem”, the work shows Jesus’s manger by Israel’s separation barrier.
BBC News – Middle East

Tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz is Cuba’s first prime minister since Fidel Castro in 1976.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

France’s president urges striking transport unions to call a truce “out of respect for families”.
BBC News – Europe

US suspect Anne Sacoolas has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
BBC News – UK

Mr Trump described space as “the world’s newest war-fighting domain” as he signed off the funding.
BBC News – US & Canada

French President Emmanuel Macron announces details of the operation during a visit to Ivory Coast.
BBC News – Africa

The current chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority will become the Bank’s 121st governor.
BBC News – Business

The case was brought by the Palestinians in 2015 but Israel calls the court’s move “outrageous”.
BBC News – Middle East

The shop in Rio de Janeiro was one of 24 addresses raided by anti-corruption investigators.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The three are found guilty of “institutional harassment” that saw staff deaths in the 2000s.
BBC News – Europe

The PM says Brexit is “one step closer” after MPs back his EU withdrawal bill by a majority of 124.
BBC News – UK

The State of the Union speech will be delivered in February around the time of Trump’s Senate trial.
BBC News – US & Canada

More than 20 South African boys have died during highly secretive coming of age rituals in recent weeks.
BBC News – Africa

Musselburgh is the biggest town in East Lothian, sitting on the Firth of Forth on the east coast. Its name basically means “mussel town” – as in where everyone goes to catch their shellfish. As a town, Musse […]

Every year ESPN pick a fighter that has been in top form all year round, last year Oleksandr Usyk was the winner of the fighter of the year for his amazing performance and winning all the cruiserweight titles in a […]

Traders may have had early access to market-sensitive information from Bank press conferences.
BBC News – Business

Prosecutors say student Giulio Regeni was ensnared in a “spider’s web” before his death in 2016.
BBC News – Middle East

Images of the hundreds of people camped out in Ciudad Juárez who are waiting to apply for US asylum.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean