Craig Taylor

US President Barack Obama unveils what he calls “the biggest, most important step we have ever taken” in tackling climate change.
BBC News – US & Canada

Prominent Burundi human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is shot and seriously injured by gunmen on motorbikes, his family says.
BBC News – Africa

The Treasury could begin the process of selling part of the government’s stake in Royal Bank of Scotland from Monday, according to BBC sources.
BBC News – Business

A teenage girl stabbed at a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday dies from her wounds, doctors say.
BBC News – Middle East

A Mexican photojournalist who said he was being threatened and harassed is found shot dead with four other people in a flat in Mexico City.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Two Turkish soldiers are killed and dozens are wounded in a suicide attack near the border with Iran blamed on Kurdish PKK militants.
BBC News – Europe

Singer and TV star Cilla Black, who enjoyed a 50-year showbusiness career, dies at her home in southern Spain.
BBC News – UK

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces he is dissolving parliament and calling a parliamentary election for 19 October.
BBC News – US & Canada

A close aide of Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza is killed in an attack on his car in the capital, Bujumbura.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 30, 2015 – The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed forward Josh Huestis to a contract, it was announce
Oklahoma City Thunder

Lloyds Banking Group’s claims bill for PPI tops £13bn as it sets aside a further £1.4bn to compensate customers.
BBC News – Business

Israel vows to catch arsonists, suspected to be Jewish settlers, who killed a young Palestinian child in an attack on a West Bank village.
BBC News – Middle East

Alejandro Burzaco, a former Argentine sporting executive, pleads not guilty in the corruption case involving football’s world governing body Fifa.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 arrives in Paris from Reunion in the Indian Ocean for analysis.
BBC News – Europe

Family members of Osama Bin Laden were on a private jet which crashed in Hampshire, killing all four people on board, the Saudi Arabian embassy in the UK says.
BBC News – UK

An 18-year-old man has been arrested after police say he shot and killed two people who stopped to help him along a road in a Montana Indian reservation.
BBC News – US & Canada

A vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus has led to 100% protection in a pioneering trial described as a “potential game-changer”.
BBC News – Africa

Oklahoma City, Friday, July 31, 2015 – The Oklahoma City Thunder selected its 2015-16 Thunder Girls dan
Oklahoma City Thunder

The International Monetary Fund is wary of any financial contribution to a third Greek bailout and is unlikely to provide funds at the first stage.
BBC News – Business

Six people are stabbed at a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem and police arrest an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man they say attacked marchers in 2005.
BBC News – Middle East