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EU foreign ministers are due to meet in Brussels to discuss imposing further sanctions on Russia amid an upsurge in fighting in Ukraine.
BBC News – Europe

Scores of England’s top private schools are expecting to be at the bottom of the secondary school league tables, following confusion over International GCSEs.
BBC News – UK

The US Supreme Court postpones the executions of three death row inmates who say the use of the sedative midazolam in the procedures is cruel.
BBC News – US & Canada

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in France who are tracking the Ebola outbreak in Guinea say the virus has mutated.
BBC News – Africa

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Apple reports first quarter earnings of $ 18bn and record iPhone sales of 74.5 million, beating investor expectations.
BBC News – Business

Three Egyptian activists lose their final appeal against three-year prison sentences they were given last year for violating an anti-protest law.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico’s attorney general insists that 43 students who disappeared four months ago were killed and their bodies burnt and disposed of.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras forms a new cabinet with Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister and right-winger Panos Kammenos as defence minister.
BBC News – Europe

Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered for trying to “expose the corruption” at the heart of Russia’s “mafia state”, his family’s lawyer claims.
BBC News – UK

The US National Weather Service says its forecasting is “subject to error”, after predictions of a historic blizzard for New York City fell flat.
BBC News – US & Canada

Militants attack a hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli, killing at least nine people including five foreigners, officials say.
BBC News – Africa

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Financial markets steady after Syriza Greek election victory, as the chief of the Eurogroup of finance ministers warns of little support for a debt write-off.
BBC News – Business

The two sons of Hosni Mubarak are released from jail, a day after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted the former Egyptian president.
BBC News – Middle East

The body of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez, who was abducted by gunmen on 2 January, is found in the town of Medellin de Bravo in Veracruz.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greece’s far-left Syriza party joins hands with the right-wing Greek Independents to form an anti-austerity governing coalition.
BBC News – Europe

The Church of England has consecrated its first female bishop, the Reverend Libby Lane, in a ceremony at York Minster.
BBC News – UK

Forecasters predict a huge blizzard on the US north-east coast, with New York’s mayor warning of a record storm and thousands of flights cancelled.
BBC News – US & Canada