Craig Taylor

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos orders an investigation into reports that army agents have spied on government officials negotiating with Farc rebels.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s MPs are continuing crisis talks to try to change the constitution – a move aimed at curtailing the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych.
BBC News – Europe

The Prince of Wales says it is a “tragedy” that nothing happened for so long for flood-hit areas in the Somerset Levels, as power cuts and rail disruption hit south-west England.
BBC News – UK

Two generals and dozens of colonels are among hundreds implicated in a US military fraud involving recruitment fees during the Iraq war, officials say.
BBC News – US & Canada

A man suspected of being involved in the assassination of two prominent Tunisian opposition figures is among militants killed in a police raid in Tunis.
BBC News – Africa

Lloyds Banking Group says it is increasing its provision for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) by another £1.8bn, bringing the total to nearly £10bn.
BBC News – Business

Al-Qaeda insists it has no links the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which has been locked in deadly clashes with rebels in Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

Left-leaning candidate Luis Guillermo Solis has a narrow lead in Costa Rica’s presidential election, which is now likely to go into a run-off.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The scale of corruption in Europe is “breathtaking” and it costs the EU economy about 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says.
BBC News – Europe

Education Secretary Michael Gove says he wants to end the “Berlin Wall” divide between state schools and private in England.
BBC News – UK

Robert De Niro is among actors and filmmakers mourning the sudden death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, who died after an apparent drug overdose.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nelson Mandela left an estate valued at some 46 million rand ($ 4.13m;£2.53m) plus royalties, a public reading of his will reveals.
BBC News – Africa

Player spending this season by Premier League clubs sets a new record of £760m, football finance experts from Deloitte say.
BBC News – Business

Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi appears in court in the capital, Cairo, for trial on charges of inciting the killing of protesters.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian federal police in the Amazon region arrest five members of the Tenharim tribe accused of killing three contractors who have been missing since mid-December.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s foreign minister and a prominent opposition leader clash face to face at a security summit in Munich as unrest in Ukraine continues.
BBC News – Europe

Lib Dem schools minister David Laws accuses Conservation Education Secretary Michael Gove of removing the head of Ofsted for political reasons.
BBC News – UK

California’s water agency says it may for the first time be unable to supply water to many residents and big areas of farmland, as a drought worsens.
BBC News – US & Canada

The United Nations says it estimates 3.7 million people are in acute need of food in South Sudan as a result of the civil conflict there.
BBC News – Africa

Real wages have been dropping consistently since 2010 – the longest period of falls for at least 50 years, official figures show.
BBC News – Business