‘I return half of what I buy’
Shops are “struggling to cope” with the amount of items customers return, with a quarter of it unfit for resale, new figures suggest. BBC News – Business
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Venezuela opposition politician Rosales granted house arrest
Key Venezuelan opposition figure and former presidential candidate, Manuel Rosales, is released from jail into house arrest. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
Mosul: Islamic State is ‘a brutal opponent’, says US general
The head of the coalition forces for Iraq and Syria tells the BBC that the Islamic State group is “a brutal opponent” in the fight for Mosul. BBC News – Middle East
Sir Philip Green: MPs approve stripping BHS ex-chief of knighthood
MPs have backed a call for the former owner of BHS, Sir Philip Green, to be stripped of his knighthood. BBC News – UK
Italy abortion row as woman dies after hospital miscarriage
Italian prosecutors begin an inquiry after a family’s lawyer claims a woman pregnant with twins died because her doctor refused to take action. BBC News – Europe
US election: Trump will accept result ‘if I win’
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he will “totally accept” the results of the US election “if I win”. BBC News – US & Canada