Craig Taylor

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces changes to the team handling the economy and vows to continue fighting “sabotage and speculation”.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Vatican officials are expected to face tough questions over the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy as they attend a UN panel in Geneva.
BBC News – Europe

A report condemns “shocking cases where a sense of humanity was lost” at an immigration removal centre in west London.
BBC News – UK

The deadly September 2012 attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi could have been prevented, a US Senate committee finds.
BBC News – US & Canada

France underestimated the hatred between Christian and Muslims in the Central African Republic, its ambassador to the United Nations says.
BBC News – Africa

The UK’s inflation rate fell to the Bank of England’s target of 2% last month for the first time since November 2009, helped by a slowdown in the increase of fruit prices.
BBC News – Business

Egyptians vote in a referendum on a new constitution, but deadly clashes are reported involving supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
BBC News – Middle East

Police in Mexico say they are disarming groups of vigilantes which have taken control of a number of towns in western Michoacan state.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

French President Francois Hollande refuses to answer questions over his alleged affair with an actress, speaking only about “difficult moments”.
BBC News – Europe

Coronation Street star William Roache indecently assaulted a girl in the men’s toilet at a TV studio and then sent her a signed photo, a court hears.
BBC News – UK

Israel’s defence minister apologises for comments deemed “offensive” by the US about Secretary of State John Kerry’s Mid-East peace initiative.
BBC News – US & Canada

A car bomb kills at least 17 people in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, in the latest attack claimed by the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram.
BBC News – Africa

The companies at the forefront of the UK’s nascent shale gas industry are planning a “substantial” expansion in the number of drilling sites.
BBC News – Business

Israel holds the burial service for former PM Ariel Sharon, earlier lauded at a state memorial as an “indomitable” defender of his people.
BBC News – Middle East

A group of vigilantes clashes with a notorious drug cartel before seizing the town of Nueva Italia in western Mexico.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler is admitted to hospital after media reports of an alleged affair involving her partner, Francois Hollande.
BBC News – Europe

Councils that back “fracking” will get to keep more money in tax revenue, PM David Cameron says, urging opponents to “get on board”.
BBC News – UK

A permit to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia is sold at auction in the US state of Texas, despite protests and death threats.
BBC News – US & Canada

The days of looting and revenge attacks in Central African Republic are over, the interim leader declares, as banks and markets reopen.
BBC News – Africa