Jaguar posts record sales figures
Car maker Jaguar Land Rover posts record sales for 2013 with nearly half a million cars sold worldwide. BBC News – Business
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Israelis mourn ex-leader Sharon
Israelis are beginning a period of mourning for ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has died at 85 of heart failure after eight years in a coma. BBC News – Middle East
Venezuela targets corrupt police
Venezuela’s interior minister gives out his mobile phone number on live television and urges police officers to call him to report cases of corruption, amid public outcry after a former beauty queen’s murder. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
Huge march over Eta prisoners
At least 100,000 people march through the northern Spanish city of Bilbao after a rally in support of jailed Basque militants is banned. BBC News – Europe
US ‘open’ to new relations with Cuba
The US is “very open” to a new relationship with Cuba, on condition of more political freedom on the communist-run island, a senior official says. BBC News – US & Canada
Keeping tuition fees ‘breaks EU law’
Charging tuition fees to students from the rest of the UK in an independent Scotland could break European law, pro-union academics claim. BBC News – UK