Craig Taylor

Immigration minister Mark Harper resigns from the government after it emerges his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK.
BBC News – UK

Canadian sisters Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe win Winter Olympic gold and silver in the women’s moguls.
BBC News – US & Canada

The ICC’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says she has opened a preliminary investigation into possible war crimes in the Central African Republic.
BBC News – Africa

The number of individual insolvencies in England and Wales fell to its lowest level for eight years in 2013, according to government figures.
BBC News – Business

The first civilians are evacuated from the besieged city of Homs in Syria, under a temporary ceasefire deal.
BBC News – Middle East

Hundreds of Brazilian demonstrators clash with riot police in Rio de Janeiro, in a protest against a rise in public transport fares.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Germany’s Angela Merkel says a US official’s apparent insult of the EU’s work in Ukraine in a leaked recording is “totally unacceptable”.
BBC News – Europe

Residents of the flood-hit Somerset Levels accuse Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith of “letting everyone down”, as he and David Cameron visited the area.
BBC News – UK

The US economy added a weaker-than-expected 113,000 jobs in January, figures show, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.6%.
BBC News – US & Canada

Muslim communities in many towns in the Central African Republic are threatened as reprisal attacks on civilians continue, a medical charity warns
BBC News – Africa

Bombardier has won a £1bn contract to provide trains for the London Crossrail project, the government announces.
BBC News – Business

Egypt’s military chief Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said he will run for president, a Kuwaiti newspaper reports.
BBC News – Middle East

Spanish building company Sacyr denies that work on the expansion of the Panama Canal has been halted, but confirms a breakdown in negotiations.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The US advises airlines flying to Russia for the Winter Olympics that explosives hidden in toothpaste tubes could be smuggled on to planes.
BBC News – Europe

Large parts of the UK are braced for more heavy rain after being battered by storms.
BBC News – UK

A woman convicted of murder in Texas is put to death, only the 14th time a female has been executed in the US in nearly four decades.
BBC News – US & Canada

Rescue workers at the Doornkop gold mine in South Africa say they have recovered eight bodies after a fire, with one miner still unaccounted for.
BBC News – Africa

Technology giant Microsoft announces Satya Nadella will succeed Steve Ballmer as its chief executive, with Bill Gates becoming a “technology adviser”.
BBC News – Business

Libya had destroyed all its chemical arsenal as of 26 January, the country’s foreign minister announces.
BBC News – Middle East