Craig Taylor

A British man killed while fighting with Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Kenya was second in command of his unit at the time, the BBC learns.
BBC News – Africa

“It was a whirlwind,” Andre Roberson said, reminiscing on the moment he decided to declare for the NBA Draft. “That’s all I remember.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Businesses are ambushing rivals with fake reviews and customers are reportedly using the threat of online criticism to win discounts, research finds.
BBC News – Business

The war in Syria fuelled a record 60m people displaced by conflict or persecution around the world in 2014, a UN report says.
BBC News – Middle East

A group of eight Brazilian senators on a visit to Venezuela to meet a jailed opposition leader say they had to flee after their bus was attacked.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Leaders from eurozone nations are to hold an emergency summit on Monday after the latest attempts to resolve the Greek debt crisis failed.
BBC News – Europe

The government is promising a “new deal” for GPs – if they sign up to seven-day opening.
BBC News – UK

Prayers are held in South Carolina and across the US after the killing of nine people at an African-American church in Charleston.
BBC News – US & Canada

The head of the Liberia Football Association says he wants to replace Sepp Blatter as the president of Fifa.
BBC News – Africa

The US central bank , the Federal Reserve, has kept its main interest rate at 0%, where it has been since the 2008 financial crisis.
BBC News – Business

A series of explosions in the Yemeni capital causes dozens of casualties, officials say, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
BBC News – Middle East

Federal prosecutors in Brazil say the government must stop the eviction of communities from an area of the Amazon jungle that will be flooded for a dam.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greece’s central bank warns for the first time that the country could be on a “painful course” to default and exit from the eurozone and the EU.
BBC News – Europe

The three sisters and nine children from Bradford feared to be going to Syria were stopped before taking a flight from the UK in March, the BBC learns.
BBC News – UK

An Uber driver in California is deemed an employee, not a contractor, in a ruling that could mean higher costs for the app-based taxi service.
BBC News – US & Canada

Chad bans people from wearing the full-face Islamic veil, saying it is to counter militants after Monday’s twin suicide bombings.
BBC News – Africa

It was an exciting prospect for the Thunder organization to bring its Development League team, the Blue, to Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Transport costs helped the UK’s CPI inflation rate to rise to 0.1% in May, up from -0.1% in April, official figures show.
BBC News – Business

Al-Qaeda confirms that a key commander – Nasser al-Wuhayshi, who headed Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – has been killed in a US drone strike in Yemen.
BBC News – Middle East

The Vatican is to put its ex-ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, on trial on sex abuse and child pornography charges.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean