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Police in Austria work through the night to establish how many people died in a lorry found abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border.
BBC News – Europe

Net migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March, as the government calls the figures “deeply disappointing”.
BBC News – UK

The father of Alison Parker, one of two journalists killed live on air, appeals to US President Barack Obama to push through tougher gun laws.
BBC News – US & Canada

Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying up to 500 migrants capsize off the Libyan city of Zuwara.
BBC News – Africa

European stock markets zig-zag after spending most of the session in negative territory, as fears of a China-led economic downturn persist.
BBC News – Business

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he is confident of continuing support from Iran and Russia amid a fresh push to resolve the country’s war.
BBC News – Middle East

Guatemala’s former military leader Efrain Rios Montt must face a retrial for genocide despite suffering from dementia, a court rules.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Chancellor Angela Merkel urges Germans to take a stand against “shameful” anti-migrant protests, on a visit to an asylum seekers’ shelter.
BBC News – Europe

Relatives of two men who remain missing following the Shoreham air crash make appeals to trace them, as investigations continue at the crash site.
BBC News – UK

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump again clashes with Fox News host Megyn Kelly while also rowing with a Spanish-language journalist.
BBC News – US & Canada

Two Kenyan runners test positive for doping at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, the IAAF announces.
BBC News – Africa

Chinese stocks have fallen 6%, a day after the worst plunge since 2007 saw markets fall around the world on concerns that its growth could be slowing.
BBC News – Business

The UN’s cultural agency condemns the destruction of the ancient temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra by Islamic State militants as a war crime.
BBC News – Middle East

Columbia condemns the expulsion of over 1,000 of its citizens by Venezuela as part of a crackdown on the two countries’ long border.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine do not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study.
BBC News – Europe

Britain’s Foreign Office says it is “urgently working” with Canadian authorities to learn the identity of the victims of a plane crash in which six people died.
BBC News – UK

Two individuals associated with the leak of Ashley Madison customer details are reported to have taken their lives, police in Canada say.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenya’s Supreme Court says that the government should abide by a lower court’s decision to give teachers a pay rise of at least 50%.
BBC News – Africa

Stock markets in the Middle East fall sharply after a difficult week for all major global share indexes.
BBC News – Business

Lebanese PM Tammam Salam promises to take action against police who used force to disperse demonstrations against piles of uncollected rubbish.
BBC News – Middle East