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Video footage shows more details of the escape of Mexico’s top drug lord Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman – and the reaction from guards upon discovering it.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Volkswagen says it will recall 8.5 million cars in Europe, while Italian police raid VW offices in Verona and Bologna.
BBC News – Europe

Scottish prosecutors say they want to interview two Libyans they have identified as suspects over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people.
BBC News – UK

President Barack Obama confirms plans to keep 5,500 US troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in policy.
BBC News – US & Canada

Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is to be released from prison to house arrest on Tuesday, South African parole board says.
BBC News – Africa

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The UK unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.4% in the three months to August, official figures show.
BBC News – Business

Israel’s cabinet authorises police to seal off “parts of Jerusalem” in an attempt to halt a wave of deadly attacks.
BBC News – Middle East

Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accuses the political opposition of seeking to oust her government via “coup-mongering”.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Dutch investigators say a Russian-made missile brought down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014, in a report condemned as biased by Russia.
BBC News – Europe

A teenager hanged by a man obsessed with asphyxiating girls was failed by police and social workers assigned to work with her killer after an earlier attack, a report reveals.
BBC News – UK

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton says rival Bernie Sanders is weak on gun control, as sparks fly at a presidential debate in Las Vegas.
BBC News – US & Canada

A Burundi state TV cameraman and his family are killed by the police, who say they were trying to free three kidnapped colleagues in the troubled country.
BBC News – Africa

Taking one look at the Thunder roster and trying to sort out minutes could make your head spin.
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Barclays is to appoint former JP Morgan banker Jes Staley as its new chief executive.
BBC News – Business

The US military air-drops more than 45 tonnes of ammunition in north-eastern Syria to rebels fighting the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
BBC News – Middle East

Police stop guarding the Ecuadorean embassy where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has sought refuge since 2012.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Islamic State group is the principal focus of investigation into the Ankara bombing that killed 97, Turkey’s prime minister says.
BBC News – Europe

Labour says it will now oppose proposals to force future governments to keep a budget surplus, in order to underline its “anti-austerity stance”.
BBC News – UK