Craig Taylor

David Cameron will announce plans to allow developers to offer “affordable homes” to buy not just rent in his closing speech to the Tory conference.
BBC News – UK

Roughly 6,000 federal inmates will be released in the coming weeks in an effort to ease prison crowding and lessen harsh penalties for non-violent offenders, US media report.
BBC News – US & Canada

The general who led last month’s short-lived coup in Burkina Faso is charged with crimes including threatening state security and murder.
BBC News – Africa

Sunday’s Blue and White Scrimmage was a wonderful, joyous celebration in Newcastle on Sunday.
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Chancellor George Osborne says local councils across England will be able to keep all proceeds from business rates.
BBC News – Business

More than 60 people are killed and many injured in at least three car bomb attacks in north and south Iraq, police and medical sources say.
BBC News – Middle East

Organisers of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games are making cutbacks of up to 30% to avoid going over budget, the BBC understands.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkey again summons the Russian ambassador after a second violation of its airspace by a Russian warplane operating in Syria in two days.
BBC News – Europe

The chief constable of Merseyside Police believes a police officer struck and killed by a stolen car “didn’t stand a chance”.
BBC News – UK

A leading US gun-control group calls for the resignation of the man leading the investigation into the deadly mass shooting in Oregon.
BBC News – US & Canada

Oscar Pistorius must remain in jail and not be transferred to house arrest after a decision to grant him parole was again delayed.
BBC News – Africa

The intensity was high, Thunder teammates getting after one another on the floor.
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The Volkswagen emissions scandal was a “dramatic event” but would not inflict lasting damage on Germany’s reputation, Angela Merkel says.
BBC News – Business

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says a coalition between Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq must succeed “or else the whole region will be destroyed”.
BBC News – Middle East

The death toll from a landslide on a village 15km away from the Guatemalan capital rises to 73, with hundreds more feared missing, authorities say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

At least 16 people die after violent storms and flooding hit the French Riviera, including three elderly people who drowned in their retirement home.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron rejects calls to rethink cuts to tax credits for working families amid warnings millions will lose out.
BBC News – UK

A teenager survived the Oregon shooting because she was covered in another victim’s body and the attacker believed she was dead, her father says.
BBC News – US & Canada

The EU imposes sanctions on three Burundi officials accused of ordering the use of excessive force against protestors, along with a coup plotter.
BBC News – Africa

NBA players vividly remember their high school playing days, but on Sunday, they’ll get a chance to re-live those times.
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