Craig Taylor

Lloyds Banking Group is fined £218m for “serious misconduct” relating to key interest rates including Libor.
BBC News – Business

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warns of a “prolonged” military campaign in Gaza, following an upsurge of violence from both sides.
BBC News – Middle East

The UN blacklists the operator of a North Korean ship seized near the Panama Canal in July 2013 with undeclared Cuban weapons on board.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia has violated an arms treaty by testing a nuclear cruise missile, the US says, as Barack Obama discusses sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
BBC News – Europe

The UK is to cut from six to three months the amount of time out-of-work EU migrants can claim benefits without realistic job prospects.
BBC News – UK

A US judge rules that the LA Clippers basketball team can be sold, despite the objections of banned co-owner Donald Sterling.
BBC News – US & Canada

Most border crossings in Liberia are closed and communities hit by an Ebola outbreak face quarantine to stop the virus spreading.
BBC News – Africa

Profit warnings from UK companies have hit a three-year high despite the continuing recovery in the wider economy, a report finds.
BBC News – Business

Hours after Hamas announces a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinian militants resume firing rockets into Israel and Israel rejects the pause.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela’s governing United Socialist Party holds its first congress since the death of President Hugo Chavez last year.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Sending an international military mission to secure the crash site of MH17 in eastern Ukraine would be “unrealistic”, Dutch PM Mark Rutte says.
BBC News – Europe

The public should be able to question the prime minister in Westminster every week, just as MPs do, Labour leader Ed Miliband tells the BBC.
BBC News – UK

Two fast-moving wildfires in California threaten homes and could result in the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials say.
BBC News – US & Canada

Boko Haram militants are suspected of carrying out two high-profile abductions in Cameroon and a church bombing in northern Nigeria.
BBC News – Africa

The UK economy grew 0.8% in the second quarter and has now recovered the ground lost since the downturn began in 2008, according to official figures.
BBC News – Business

A 12-hour truce has begun in Gaza amid efforts to secure a longer ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and as the scale of damage becomes clear.
BBC News – Middle East

In a bid to stimulate the sluggish economy, the Brazilian central bank announces plans to reduce the amount commercial banks have to keep in reserve.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia’s foreign ministry rejects accusations from the US that its troops have been firing on Ukrainian soldiers from within Russia.
BBC News – Europe

A group of local councils in England is formally asking the government for new powers to tax large supermarkets, a plan dubbed the “Tesco tax”.
BBC News – UK

President Obama meets Central American leaders and says undocumented immigrant children without legal claims to be in the US will be sent home.
BBC News – US & Canada