Craig Taylor

Brazil is ready, on and off the pitch, for the football World Cup which starts on Thursday, President Dilma Rousseff says in a TV address.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A strike against a mobile taxi service prompts protests by cab drivers across Europe, while rail services are disrupted by action in France.
BBC News – Europe

Hundreds of thousands of people have been hit by a benefits backlog, a minister says.
BBC News – UK

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel tells a House committee the release of captive Sgt Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees was in US national interests.
BBC News – US & Canada

Troops from Rwanda and DR Congo are clashing on the border after a soldier was kidnapped, the Congolese information minister tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

Thabeet Helps Kids with the Fundamentals
Thunder News

The competition to win new banking customers is about to intensify, as the UK’s largest supermarket launches its first current account.
BBC News – Business

Militants have effectively taken control of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, officials say, in the latest in a series of major attacks in recent days.
BBC News – Middle East

Metro workers in Sao Paulo suspend a strike that has caused traffic chaos, two days before the city is to host the opening match of the World Cup.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Germany’s Angela Merkel restates support for Jean-Claude Juncker to take over as president of the European Commission at a mini-summit in Sweden.
BBC News – Europe

Plans for schools to promote “British values” are likely to have overwhelming support of people in the UK, the prime minister has said.
BBC News – UK

Two who shot dead police officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo and a bystander in a Las Vegas shopping centre were ‘anti-police’, authorities say.
BBC News – US & Canada

A leading moderate Muslim cleric is shot dead in Mombasa – the latest killing of a preacher in the Kenyan coastal city.
BBC News – Africa

The government has named 25 more employers that have failed to pay their staff the minimum wage, under rules which came in last year.
BBC News – Business

Syria could become a “failed state” similar to Somalia, former UN envoy to the country Lakhdar Brahimi warns.
BBC News – Middle East

Metro workers in Sao Paulo vote to remain on strike in a dispute that could disrupt the opening match of the football World Cup on Thursday.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has claimed victory in national elections marked by a low turnout, especially in Serb areas.
BBC News – Europe

A leaked draft report on a Birmingham academy trust says it runs schools that have “taken the Islamic focus too far”.
BBC News – UK

A man and a woman shoot and kill two police officers, before killing another person and then themselves in the US city of Las Vegas.
BBC News – US & Canada

Former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is sworn in as Egypt’s new president, vowing to tackle “terrorism” and bring security.
BBC News – Africa