Craig Taylor

Social media giant Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK after a major overhaul of its tax structure.
BBC News – Business

Turkey jails two Syrians over the drowning of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi whose death last year focused attention on the refugee crisis.
BBC News – Middle East

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is detained as part of a huge fraud inquiry into the state oil company Petrobras.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The number of people seeking asylum in the European Union in 2015 reached 1,255,600 – more than double the previous year, new figures suggest.
BBC News – Europe

Schools are closed and traffic is being disrupted as part of northern England is hit by heavy snow showers.
BBC News – UK

A day of unprecedented Republican attacks on White House front-runner Donald Trump continued in a TV debate for presidential rivals.
BBC News – US & Canada

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe accuses foreign mining companies of stealing the country’s wealth, following a government decision to take over all the country’s diamond mines.
BBC News – Africa

LOS ANGELES – The Thunder’s performance through three quarters on Wednesday night was perhaps as good as the team has pu
Oklahoma City Thunder

The errors piled up at a record rate. Marcus Semien watched the losses mount, too. The shortstop’s first year with the A’s was seemingly disastrous, full of frustrations, and yet he didn’t want it to end.
OAK Homepage News

Rolls-Royce workers receive an email from German parent company BMW, highlighting the potential risks of a vote for the UK to leave the European Union.
BBC News – Business

Jordan says a raid in the city of Irbid that left seven suspected jihadist militants dead foiled attacks being plotted by so-called Islamic State.
BBC News – Middle East

The owners of a Brazilian mine that breached a dam, setting off a deadly mudslide, has agreed to pay 4.4bn reais (£804m) in damages.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

European Council President Donald Tusk will visit Greece and Turkey as he tries to find consensus in tackling Europe’s worsening migration crisis.
BBC News – Europe

Internet “trolls” may face criminal charges for creating fake profiles, according to guidance being considered for prosecutors in England and Wales.
BBC News – UK

Senior Republicans are speaking out against front-runner Donald Trump after his seven-state victory in the race for the party’s presidential pick.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigerian police are hunting for three teenage girls abducted from their boarding school on the outskirts of Lagos city by heavily armed men.
BBC News – Africa

Oklahoma City Thunder

While Stephen Vogt continues to rehab his surgically-repaired right elbow and Josh Phegley recovers from a double dose of flu-like symptoms and shoulder soreness, youngsters Carson Blair and Bruce Maxwell have […]

Barclays shares close down 7% after reporting a drop in full-year profits, a dividend cut and a restructuring that will see it wind down its operations in Africa after more than a century.
BBC News – Business

An Iraqi army general and nine other soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack by Islamic State militants in western Iraq, security sources say.
BBC News – Middle East