Italian air strike disrupts UK flights
UK travellers are among the air passengers facing disruption due to a strike by Italian air traffic controllers, with scores of flights cancelled. BBC News – UK
UK travellers are among the air passengers facing disruption due to a strike by Italian air traffic controllers, with scores of flights cancelled. BBC News – UK
A truce agreed between Ukraine’s government and rebels in the east appears to be holding, as President Poroshenko calls for full peace talks. BBC News – Europe
A private plane tailed by US fighter jets when it failed to respond to air traffic control, crashes off Jamaica, with an American couple on board. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
The leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US attack earlier this week, the Pentagon says. BBC News – Africa
A sweep of US government labs finds improperly stored deadly microbes, following the discovery of forgotten stores of smallpox in July. BBC News – US & Canada
Air strikes in the north of the country have killed two senior Islamic State members, state media in Iraq says, but neither death has been confirmed. BBC News – Middle East