Craig Taylor

Three men who tricked their victim into handing over her £12,000 savings on the phone have been caught on tape, thanks to her son’s premonition.
BBC News – Business

Islamic State (IS) militants continue their destruction of the ancient Syrian site of Palmyra by blowing up three funerary towers.
BBC News – Middle East

Jailed Guatemala’s ex-president Otto Perez Molina rejects corruption allegations during court hearing – and asks to be placed under house arrest
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Thousands of exhausted migrants cross into Austria after Hungary’s surprise move to provide buses to take them to the border.
BBC News – Europe

More than 40 UK councils say they are ready to offer sanctuary to refugees fleeing fighting in Syria, Labour’s Yvette Cooper says.
BBC News – UK

Authorities in a county of the US state of Kentucky issue marriage licences to gay couples after a county clerk was jailed for refusing to do so.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari declares he has $ 150,000 (£100,000) in his personal account – far less than his vice-president.
BBC News – Africa

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The European Central Bank cuts its forecasts for growth and inflation in the eurozone for 2015 and the next two years.
BBC News – Business

The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on a beach in Turkey tells the BBC of the family’s fatal voyage trying to reach Europe.
BBC News – Middle East

Guatemalan congress accepts President Otto Perez Molina’s resignation two days after stripping him of his immunity.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Scuffles break out west of Budapest as police try to force migrants off a train at a refugee camp, while European leaders wrangle over the growing refugee crisis.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron says the UK will fulfil its “moral responsibilities” as pressure mounts to take in more people fleeing to Europe.
BBC News – UK

A US judge orders a Kentucky official jailed for contempt of court after she has repeatedly refused to issue marriage licences to gay couples.
BBC News – US & Canada

Former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda tells the International Criminal Court he is a soldier, not an “infamous killer”.
BBC News – Africa

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Thousands of magazine subscribers with WHSmith have received emails containing the details of other customers owing to a processing “bug”.
BBC News – Business

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says two of its Yemeni workers have been shot dead in northern Yemen by unidentified assailants.
BBC News – Middle East

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is barred from leaving the country, hours after congress stripped him of his immunity from prosecution.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Hundreds of migrants protest for a second day at Hungary’s decision to stop them from travelling by train to other European destinations.
BBC News – Europe