Craig Taylor

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu agrees an 11th-hour deal to form a new coalition government, seven weeks after winning the general election.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia says it will investigate accusations that US contractors and military staff sexually abused minors for four years from 2003.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Danish spy agency head Jens Madsen resigns, hours before the release of a report into February’s fatal shootings in Copenhagen by an Islamist.
BBC News – Europe

Millions of people are set to cast their votes in the UK general election with council seats across England also up for grabs.
BBC News – UK

A left-leaning party wins a surprise victory in Alberta, one of Canada’s most conservative provinces.
BBC News – US & Canada

Tottenham and Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor has used Facebook to write about his personal family issues.
BBC News – Africa

HSBC says it will make its decision whether to move its headquarters out of the UK within months rather than years.
BBC News – Business

Civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo are suffering unthinkable atrocities, with war crimes committed on a daily basis, Amnesty International says.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian prosecutors confirm a preliminary investigation into former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over alleged influence peddling.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Dozens of migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean after a boat sank south of Sicily, the Save the Children aid group says.
BBC News – Europe

Party leaders are criss-crossing the UK appealing to undecided voters in key seats as the general election campaign enters its final two days.
BBC News – UK

Islamic State says it was responsible for the attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon exhibition in the US state of Texas in which two gunmen died.
BBC News – US & Canada

Burundi’s constitutional court rules that President Pierre Nkurunziza’s third-term bid is legal, after one of its judges reportedly flees the country.
BBC News – Africa

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Goldberg, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, dies aged 47, his family says.
BBC News – Business

Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protest against police brutality and racism in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, leading to violent clashes.
BBC News – Middle East

The Costa Rican government issues an alert along about 100 km (60 miles) of coast near Puntarenas, after a vessel carrying tons of toxic chemicals sinks.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

More than 5,800 migrants are rescued and 10 bodies recovered in several operations in the Mediterranean over the weekend, Italy’s coastguard says.
BBC News – Europe

The Conservatives focus on tax and Labour on the NHS as campaigning returns to traditional territory with three days left before the polls open.
BBC News – UK

Two gunmen are shot dead in a suburb of Dallas after they opened fire outside a conference on cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, US police say.
BBC News – US & Canada

Former hostages held by Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria say some of their fellow captives were stoned to death by the militants.
BBC News – Africa