Simon Furness

The US says Russia has fired artillery at Ukrainian military positions in the east, a week after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster.
BBC News – Europe

A pioneering breast cancer treatment that replaces weeks of radiotherapy with a single, targeted shot is set to be offered on the NHS.
BBC News – UK

Arizona halts executions pending a review of its death penalty procedures, after the allegedly botched lethal injection of a convicted murderer.
BBC News – US & Canada

The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say.
BBC News – Africa

A dozen basketballs bounced simultaneously inside the lane at Yukon High School’s gymnasium and the owner of each ball desperately strive
Oklahoma City Thunder

Bank of England minutes show officials are still wary over raising interest rates while the Institute of Directors believes the Bank is being too cautious.
BBC News – Business

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says Israel may have committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip, while also condemning Hamas rocket attacks.
BBC News – Middle East

A US judge orders Argentina and its creditors to meet “continuously” to avoid the nation defaulting on its debts later this month.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Netherlands receives the first victims’ bodies from crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in a solemn ceremony at Eindhoven air base.
BBC News – Europe

Whitehall sources say information has emerged that MH17 crash evidence was deliberately tampered with, as the plane’s black boxes arrive in the UK.
BBC News – UK

Searchers in the US state of Washington locate what they believe to be the final missing body following a deadly mudslide in March.
BBC News – US & Canada

Two blasts targeting an opposition leader and an Islamic cleric have hit the Nigerian city of Kaduna, killing at least 40 people, police say.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 15, 2014 – The Oklahoma City Thunder has signed free agent guard Sebastian Telfair to a contract, it
Oklahoma City Thunder

Up to 5,000 new complaints a week about payment protection insurance (PPI) are making their way to the financial ombudsman, but the numbers are falling.
BBC News – Business

US Secretary of State John Kerry leads diplomatic moves in search of a ceasefire in Gaza amid rising concern over numbers of Palestinian casualties.
BBC News – Middle East

Chinese President Xi Jinping has signed an oil deal with Venezuela, as part of a four-day tour of Latin America.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Rebels in eastern Ukraine have handed over two flight-data recorders from the downed MH17 plane to Malaysian officials.
BBC News – Europe

Britain is expected to push for tougher sanctions against Russia when EU foreign ministers meet in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines crash.
BBC News – UK

Johns Hopkins Hospital agrees to pay $ 190m to thousands of women who joined a legal case claiming a gynaecologist secretly recorded them.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigeria’s militant Islamists raise their black flag in the town of Damboa after capturing it, a local vigilante leader tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa