Craig Taylor

Doubts grow that Monday’s deadline for a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme will be met at talks in Vienna, as negotiators admit “big gaps” remain.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia’s Farc rebels will release five captives, including Gen Ruben Dario Alzate, next week, President Juan Manuel Santos says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Western sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine are aimed at forcing regime change in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
BBC News – Europe

A law forcing communications firms to keep details that could help identify criminals using the internet is being planned by the home secretary.
BBC News – UK

Marion Barry, ex-Washington DC mayor who won re-election after a drug arrest, dies at 78.
BBC News – US & Canada

The slaughter of 28 people on a bus in Kenya is an attempt to start a religious war, an adviser to President Uhuru Kenyatta tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

During his 2013-14 Most Valuable Player acceptance speech, Kevin Durant laid bare his soul and told the world his story.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Just 4.6 seconds remained when Reggie Jackson first grabbed the ball on the in-bounds pass.
Oklahoma City Thunder

A cut in interest rates in China and comments from Europe’s Central Bank chief spur US markets on to fresh highs
BBC News – Business

Iran’s foreign minister says he has heard “no new ideas” as talks with world powers on Tehran’s nuclear programme stretch into the evening.
BBC News – Middle East

Two retired Chilean colonels – Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos – are jailed for torturing the father of President Michelle Bachelet in 1973.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A judge in the Netherlands agrees to extend the period police can hold a Dutch teenager who travelled to Syria to marry an Islamist fighter.
BBC News – Europe

Two men die and at least six other people are injured as part of a balcony collapses in west London.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama vows to press for further immigration reform, as Republicans condemn his use of executive powers on the issue.
BBC News – US & Canada

Eleven people have been killed in a stampede after a religious service in a stadium in Zimbabwe, police say.
BBC News – Africa

Thunder teammates always hold one another accountable, in a positive,
Oklahoma City Thunder

Apple plans to push the Beats streaming music service to every iPhone in the new year, according to a report in the Financial Times newspaper.
BBC News – Business

A former member of Qatar’s World Cup bid team, Phaedra Al-Majid, says she has experienced “fear and threats” since making corruption allegations against Fifa.
BBC News – Middle East

Mass protests are expected across Mexico for 43 missing students, whom the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice has rejected the UK’s challenge to Europe’s cap on bankers’ bonuses.
BBC News – Europe