Craig Taylor

Syrian rival delegations end a week-long peace conference in Geneva by trading insults, as no deal emerges on how to end the conflict.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican security forces arrest Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, the alleged second-in-command in the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Medical workers block police from questioning a Ukrainian protester, being treated in hospital after apparently undergoing severe torture.
BBC News – Europe

The family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher say they “are still on a journey to the truth”, after murder convictions were reinstated against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.
BBC News – UK

Canada’s spy agency collected data from travellers using an airport’s wi-fi system, CBC reports, quoting documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
BBC News – US & Canada

The medical charity MSF says 240 of its staff have been forced to flee into the bush in South Sudan to try to escape fighting.
BBC News – Africa

The US Federal Reserve reduces its monthly bond purchases from $ 75bn to $ 65bn in the second straight month of winding down stimulus efforts.
BBC News – Business

The Syrian authorities have “deliberately and unlawfully” demolished thousands of residential buildings, says Human Rights Watch.
BBC News – Middle East

Police in the US arrest former Ecuadorean police commander Edgar Vaca, accused of kidnapping and torturing left-wing rebels in the 1980s.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Protesters remain camped in Kiev after rejecting the terms of a new amnesty law, which requires them to vacate government buildings.
BBC News – Europe

The home secretary seeks new powers to strip terrorist suspects of their UK citizenship as the Immigration Bill is debated by MPs.
BBC News – UK

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber is charged with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto, in his second court appearance in a week.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar tells the BBC that the treason charges laid against him and some of his allies are “baseless”.
BBC News – Africa

The UK economy grew 0.7% in the final quarter of 2013 and by 1.9% for the year, the Office for National Statistics says, led by the services sector.
BBC News – Business

Egypt’s former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi rails against the authorities at the beginning of a trial over his escape from prison in 2011.
BBC News – Middle East

The Mexican government signs an agreement with vigilante groups in Michoacan state to bring them into the official security apparatus.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych accepts the resignation of PM Mykola Azarov after the government annuls a controversial anti-protest law.
BBC News – Europe

An ex-News of the World journalist played a hacked voicemail left by actress Sienna Miller for Daniel Craig to his editor, Andy Coulson, a court hears.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama will unveil a minimum-wage raise as he delivers his annual State of the Union address later.
BBC News – US & Canada

The United Nations believes at least 10,000 troops are needed in any force sent to end unrest in Central African Republic, France’s UN envoy says.
BBC News – Africa