Craig Taylor

The UK’s economic recovery is “not yet secure”, Chancellor George Osborne is warning in the run-up to next month’s Budget.
BBC News – Business

Twenty journalists, including foreigners from the al-Jazeera TV channel, are due to go on trial on terrorism charges in Egypt’s capital Cairo.
BBC News – Middle East

US President Barack Obama vows to expand trade agreements between North America and Asia, after a summit with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Foreign ministers from France, Germany and Poland are to hold crisis talks in Ukraine, following the deadliest clashes since the unrest began in November.
BBC News – Europe

An increasing number of young people with mental health problems in England are being treated on adult psychiatric wards, it emerges.
BBC News – UK

Facebook buys popular messaging app WhatsApp for $ 19bn (£11.4bn), in a deal Mark Zuckerberg describes as “incredibly valuable”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Suicide bombers reportedly take part in a “massive” attack in northern Nigeria a day after a spokesman said the army was winning the war against militants.
BBC News – Africa

The UK’s inflation rate falls to 1.9% in January, the first time in more than four years that it has gone below the Bank of England’s 2% target.
BBC News – Business

Iran and six world powers open the first round of talks in Vienna to seek a long-term agreement on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
BBC News – Middle East

A Venezuelan opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, hands himself over to the authorities as pro- and anti-government protesters rally in Caracas.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukrainian police storm the main anti-government protest camp in the capital, Kiev, after at least nine people die in the worst violence in weeks.
BBC News – Europe

The start of a new NHS data-sharing scheme in England involving medical records is being delayed by six months.
BBC News – UK

A pharmacy in the US state of Oklahoma has agreed not to supply a powerful sedative to a neighbouring state for use in an execution, a court hears.
BBC News – US & Canada

Fighting breaks out in the South Sudanese oil town of Malakal, officials say, the first major clashes since a ceasefire agreement in January.
BBC News – Africa

Japan’s economy grows less than expected, despite forecasts it would benefit from a jump in spending ahead of a sales tax increase in April.
BBC News – Business

Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi walk out of his trial on charges of espionage and conspiring to commit terror.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos promises a full investigation into allegations that senior army officers were involved in massive corruption.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, arrives at the presidential palace, where he is tipped to be asked to form a new government.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron describes the floods as a “tragedy” as more rain hits ground already saturated with water, causing continuing misery for UK communities.
BBC News – UK

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expels three US consular officials, accusing them of meeting students involved in anti-government protests.
BBC News – US & Canada