Craig Taylor

It was a gritty, physical battle and even though it wasn’t pretty, the Thunder gave itself a chance to win.
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David Cameron pledges to put “rocket boosters” behind plans for an EU-US free trade deal, following a meeting with fellow leaders at the G20 summit.
BBC News – Business

America’s top general tells troops in Iraq that momentum is turning against Islamic State, the militant group controlling parts of Iraq and Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

A judge in north-eastern Brazil sentences three people to 20-23 years in prison for killing and eating a homeless woman.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Work has begun to remove wreckage from the MH17 crash site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, Dutch officials say.
BBC News – Europe

Inmates in England and Wales who carry out assaults or other serious crimes will face harsher measures from next year, the Ministry of Justice announces.
BBC News – UK

A video released onto the internet claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
BBC News – US & Canada

A surgeon from Sierra Leone, who is critically ill with Ebola, arrives in the US where he is being treated at an isolation unit in Nebraska.
BBC News – Africa

The gymnasium at Classen School of Advanced Studies is hallowed basketball ground in Oklahoma City, so it was serendipitous that it house
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The Thunder battled all night and rallied back against every run the Detroit Pistons made.
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Oil prices are likely to continue falling well into 2015, the International Energy Agency forecasts.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi forces have driven out Islamic State fighters from the oil refinery town of Baiji, north of Baghdad, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian police have carried out a series of raids and arrested 18 people as part of a corruption investigation into the state-run oil firm Petrobras.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Russian foreign ministry accuses international monitors in conflict-racked eastern Ukraine of bias towards the government.
BBC News – Europe

Serial killer and sex offender Angus Sinclair is jailed for a minimum of 37 years for the 1977 World’s End murders of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie.
BBC News – UK

The US House of Representatives passes a bill to approve the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, and it will now go to a vote in the Senate.
BBC News – US & Canada

Boko Haram militants seize Chibok, the north-eastern Nigerian town from which they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls this year, residents say.
BBC News – Africa

Two pairs of feet trampled down the sideline in the Millwood Public School’s gymnasium.
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Sales at Asda fall, hit by what the retailer calls ‘a shockwave’ in the supermarket sector, but retailer retains market share.
BBC News – Business

Eight navy personnel are missing after dozens of gunmen attacked an Egyptian navy ship in the Mediterranean, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East