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IMF head Christine Lagarde says she has been placed under formal investigation for negligence in a French fraud case but has not been charged.
BBC News – Europe

The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire vows to stay in the job despite calls for him to quit over a damning report into child abuse in Rotherham.
BBC News – UK

A nine-year-old girl kills her shooting instructor by accident while being shown how to use an Uzi submachine gun at a firing range in Arizona.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigerian schools are ordered to remain shut, delaying the new academic year until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of Ebola.
BBC News – Africa

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Fast-food giant Burger King says it is in takeover talks with Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and doughnut chain.
BBC News – Business

The US was “caught off-guard” by air strikes on Libya reportedly carried out by the UAE with Egyptian help, a senior official tells the BBC.
BBC News – Middle East

Prisoners who began a riot in the Brazilian city of Cascavel on Sunday agree to end the unrest, in which they killed four fellow inmates.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s president dissolves parliament and calls a snap election for October, as his forces fight pro-Russian separatists in the east.
BBC News – Europe

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together head Alistair Darling clash in a heated final TV debate ahead of next month’s independence referendum.
BBC News – UK

Hundreds of people attend the funeral in Missouri of the black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot dead by a white policeman.
BBC News – US & Canada

Hundreds of Nigerian soldiers cross into Cameroon following fierce fighting with Boko Haram militants, but Nigeria denies they fled.
BBC News – Africa

US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen says there is still “remaining slack in the labour market”.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi forces say they have defeated a suspected Islamic State attack on the country’s largest oil refinery.
BBC News – Middle East

Argentina’s plan to ask investors holding defaulted bonds to swap them for new locally issued debt is ruled “illegal” by a US court.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Pro-Russian rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Donetsk, as Ukraine’s president announces a major boost in military spending.
BBC News – Europe

A British national who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown back to the UK on an RAF jet, UK health officials say.
BBC News – UK

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 shakes northern California, with at least three serious injuries reported.
BBC News – US & Canada

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo confirms the country’s first cases of Ebola in the current outbreak.
BBC News – Africa

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