Craig Taylor

Nick Clegg unveils the first waiting targets for mental health treatments in England ahead of his Lib Dem conference speech.
BBC News – UK

Canada’s parliament votes to allow the country’s military to join the US-led campaign of air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta arrives at the International Criminal Court in The Hague where he faces charges of crimes against humanity.
BBC News – Africa

“It’s a little testy in here playing against each other,” Kevin Durant said after Tuesday’s practice, a wry grin flashing across his face
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Savings of up to £1m are to be protected under new proposals from the Bank of England aimed at avoiding a Northern Rock style run on a bank.
BBC News – Business

Civilians flee the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane, as Islamic State militants enter and engage in street-to-street fighting with Syrian Kurds.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will face centre-right Aecio Neves in an election run-off, but environmentalist Marina Silva comes a distant third.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Spain’s health minister confirms a nurse who treated two Ebola victims in Madrid has contracted the virus in the first infection outside Africa.
BBC News – Europe

Vince Cable tells the Lib Dem conference that anyone who claims to be able to eliminate the deficit without increasing taxes, as the Conservatives are, is “lying”.
BBC News – UK

The US Supreme Court rejects appeals against gay marriage in five US states, increasing the number where it’s legal to 30, in a move applauded by campaigners.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says he will attend the International Criminal Court this week, and puts his deputy in charge while he is away.
BBC News – Africa

The first full Thunder game experience of the 2014-15 season was on display on Sunday.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Long after Friday’s practice was over, Thunder center Steven Adams was bodying up assistant coach Mark Bryant.
Oklahoma City Thunder

In his first interview since leaving Pimco, former boss Bill Gross says he is ‘uniquely exuberant’ at leaving management responsibilities behind.
BBC News – Business

The Pakistani Taliban express support for Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, calling on Islamists worldwide to “forget rivalries”.
BBC News – Middle East

More than 142 million Brazilians are going to the polls to choose the country’s next president, a federal parliament and state governors, following a dramatic election campaign.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Pope Francis urges bishops not to impose an “intolerable moral burden” on believers, as a synod gathers to discuss controversial issues affecting the Catholic Church.
BBC News – Europe

Nick Clegg says taxes must be increased to reduce the deficit and accuses the Tories of wanting to do it by “beating up on the poor”.
BBC News – UK

The parents of US hostage Peter Kassig appeal to Islamic State militants to “show mercy” and release him, in a video statement.
BBC News – US & Canada

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have surrounded a key port that is a major stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists, a spokesman says.
BBC News – Africa