Craig Taylor

Cuba’s communist leader Raul Castro thanks Pope Francis at the Vatican for his role in Cuban-US rapprochement.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under an EU quota scheme.
BBC News – Europe

PM David Cameron is to address Conservative backbenchers for the first time since winning a majority, as he continues to appoint his new cabinet.
BBC News – UK

Two police officers have been shot dead during a traffic stop in the southern city of Hattiesburg in Mississippi.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, elects Mmusi Maimane as its first black leader.
BBC News – Africa

The result of a long-running inquiry into the need for a new airport runway in south-east England may be further delayed for further public consultation.
BBC News – Business

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial.
BBC News – Middle East

A court in Venezuela sentences a policeman to 18 years in jail for the death in February of a 14-year-old protester in the western state of Tachira.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia stages its biggest WW2 Victory Day military parade, an event avoided by many Western leaders because of the Ukraine crisis.
BBC News – Europe

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon calls for an end to austerity as she meets her party’s 56 newly elected MPs at an event in South Queensferry
BBC News – UK

President Barack Obama marks the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a special address, ahead of a flyover in Washington.
BBC News – US & Canada

The World Health Organization (WHO) declares Liberia free of the Ebola virus, as the country has had no new cases in 42 days.
BBC News – Africa

British shares leap higher as investors welcome an end to election uncertainty.
BBC News – Business

Al-Qaeda in Yemen says a US air strike has killed Nasser al-Ansi, a militant who claimed January’s attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
BBC News – Middle East

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet says she has asked all her ministers to resign and she will choose a new cabinet in the coming days.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Events are being held in Europe and the US to commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day, beginning with a ceremony in the Polish port of Gdansk.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron heads back to Downing Street with the Tories set to defy pre-election polls and win a majority, with Ed Miliband set to quit after Labour was all but wiped out in Scotland, and the Lib Dems routed.
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The FBI had warned Texas officials several hours before a provocative cartoon contest that a suspected extremist could show up at the event.
BBC News – US & Canada

At least four people have been killed in fresh protests in Burundi, witnesses say, after President Pierre Nkurunziza vowed not to seek a fourth term.
BBC News – Africa

Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen told IMF managing director Christine Lagarde there are “potential dangers” in high stock market valuations.
BBC News – Business