Craig Taylor

The letter from a key US military chief in Baghdad had suggested its forces were leaving.
BBC News – Middle East

Juan Guaidó and 100 other lawmakers broke through a cordon of riot police barring their access.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The PM will govern with far-left Podemos – a historic move – after winning by just two MPs’ votes.
BBC News – Europe

The PM is set to tell the EU Commission president that the UK will not prolong negotiations beyond 2020.
BBC News – UK

Troops have been on alert after the US killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani on Friday.
BBC News – US & Canada

Liverpool’s Sadio Mane is named the Confederation of African Football’s (Caf) Player of the Year.
BBC News – Africa

Penicuik is east of the Pentland hills, somewhere in the middle of Midlothian. It is on the River North Esk and used to be known as Pennycook… which literally means “Hill of the Cuckoo” in the old tongue. Why? […]

The 77th Annual Golden Globes Awards are now a matter of record and by and large few will argue too much with the winners and by an large it went off without a hitch. The night included a number of inebriated […]

The ex-Nissan boss reportedly escaped by train before being smuggled to Turkey in a flight case.
BBC News – Business

Iran’s supreme leader leads prayers for Qasem Soleimani, killed in a US drone strike on Friday.
BBC News – Middle East

The US says it still recognises opposition lawmaker Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate leader.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkish forces will support the UN-backed government in Libya as it battles an insurgency.
BBC News – Europe

A man convicted of 159 sex offences will “never be safe to be released” from jail, a judge says.
BBC News – UK

The US president warns Iraq of sanctions “like they’ve never seen before” if US troops are expelled.
BBC News – US & Canada

An exhibition of African photography reflects politics, past times and personal relations.
BBC News – Africa

If you were to leave Glasgow and head out to Ayr, you would hit Kilwinning about two-thirds of the way there. It is in North Ayrshire, making it only a short coastal journey off the path of the Wallace himself. […]

Blantyre – Everybody loves this place… take it from a Scot. It’s the kind of town that folk in Edinburgh work all their lives to retire in. It’s just far enough away from the metropolitan centres of Hamil […]

Lord Berkeley says MPs were “misled” about the line’s costs, which he says will be more than £108bn.
BBC News – Business

The Green Zone comes under fire after a funeral procession for an Iranian general killed by the US.
BBC News – Middle East

LGBT activists are mounting legal battles against the Caribbean’s colonial-era homophobic laws.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean