Craig Taylor

Facebook has announced changes to the way it runs its Trending Topics feed, following an internal investigation.
BBC News – US & Canada

A state of emergency is called in the Nigerian state of Kaduna after 80% of tomatoes are said to have been destroyed by pests.
BBC News – Africa

Zach Neal will start for the A’s on Wednesday against the Mariners, as he takes the turn in the rotation typically filled by Sonny Gray, who is on the disabled list.
OAK Homepage News

Kevin Durant rose up with both hands straight up in the air just to the right side of the rim, denying any chance of a Draymond Green lay
Oklahoma City Thunder

The A’s lost their ace pitcher and arguably their hottest hitter to the disabled list on a weekend in which they were swept at home by the Yankees, the first four-game sweep of Oakland at the Coliseum since 1999, […]

Axa, the world’s largest insurer, plans to stop investing in the tobacco industry to help highlight the human and economic cost of smoking.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of a military operation to retake Falluja from so-called Islamic State (IS).
BBC News – Middle East

The ashes of the late Nobel Prize winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez are laid to rest in the Colombian city of Cartagena.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The far-right and independent candidates in Austria’s presidential run-off are neck-and-neck with the result now depending on postal ballots.
BBC News – Europe

Treasury analysis says Brexit would tip the UK into a year-long recession, but Vote Leave dismisses the study as “deeply biased”.
BBC News – UK

James Hinchcliffe secures pole position for the 100th Indianapolis 500, a year after suffering a serious injury at the same race.
BBC News – US & Canada

An Egyptian robot submarine heads to the area where the missing EgyptAir plane is reported to have crashed to search for the flight data recorders.
BBC News – Africa

In the early morning hours of Thursday morning, as the Thunder’s team plane was crossing the Rocky Mountains on its way back from Oakland
Oklahoma City Thunder

Sean Manaea retired the first nine Yankees batters he faced Saturday and appeared headed toward his second straight strong start. But the A’s left-hander lost control of the fourth inning, and said following his […]

A UK vote to leave the European Union would cause an “immediate economic shock” that could slow house price growth, Chancellor George Osborne says.
BBC News – Business

Nearly half the UN-run schools in the Middle East have been attacked, damaged or put out of use since 2011, a report obtained by the BBC says.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico grants the extradition of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States on drug smuggling and murder charges.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A Greek ruling not to send a Syrian asylum seeker back to Turkey because it is not considered safe raises questions over the EU’s migrant deal.
BBC News – Europe

Labour will seek to distribute the rewards of growth more fairly, leader Jeremy Corbyn says, as he sets out the party’s economic vision.
BBC News – UK

President Obama criticises the US Congress for failing to fully back his request for a $ 1.9bn (£1.25bn) fund to combat the Zika virus.
BBC News – US & Canada