Islamic State ‘is training pilots’
Iraqi pilots who joined Islamic State are training its members in Syria to fly three captured fighter jets, a UK-based activist group says. BBC News – Middle East
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Rotherham abuse files ‘went missing’
MPs call for an urgent investigation into allegations files relating to the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal went missing. BBC News – UK
‘No breakthrough’ in Ukraine talks
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine hold talks with EU leaders, with no apparent breakthrough on how to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. BBC News – Europe
Nigeria and Boko Haram ‘agree truce’
Nigeria’s military says it has agreed a truce with Islamist militants Boko Haram, and the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released. BBC News – Africa
Mysterious US spaceplane returns
The X-37B, a US plane on a secretive, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California. BBC News – US & Canada
IS ‘nearly driven out of Kobane’
The Islamic State militant group has been driven out of most of the northern Syrian town of Kobane, a Kurdish commander tells the BBC. BBC News – Middle East