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Fourteen mausoleums in Timbuktu in northern Mali are rebuilt, three years after they were destroyed by Islamist extremists.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 9, 2015 – The Oklahoma City Thunder has signed forward Kyle Singler to a multi-year
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Weaving between the 60 bouncing basketballs and the campers trying to dribble them was a blur of a man, twisting and spinning his way thr
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People who were mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) can receive widely differing compensation, a BBC investigation has found.
BBC News – Business

A car bomb in an Iraqi town rips through a market, killing 120 people and injuring about 130, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

The head of Bolivia’s Football Federation, Carlos Chavez, is arrested as part of a corruption investigation, officials say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greece’s ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis pours scorn on the country’s €86bn bailout in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
BBC News – Europe

Rescuers searching for four people missing after an explosion devastated a mill have entered the remains of the building in what may become a “recovery operation”.
BBC News – UK

The four US Marines shot dead by a gunman in Tennessee are named by officials as investigators focus on suspect’s visits to the Middle East.
BBC News – US & Canada

The Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where al-Shabab militants killed 67 people in September 2013, opens its doors again.
BBC News – Africa

With just a few turns of the steering wheel, Billy Donovan bounces between his hotel room and his office, grinding away at the work that
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Bank of England governor Mark Carney indicates that UK interest rates could rise “at the turn of this year”.
BBC News – Business

Several ministers from Yemen’s exiled government return to the country for the first time since being forced to flee by Houthi rebels in March.
BBC News – Middle East

Federal prosecutors in Brazil open a formal inquiry into alleged influence-peddling by the former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Greek banks, shut nearly three weeks ago, are to reopen on Monday after the European Central Bank raised the level of emergency funding available.
BBC News – Europe

Education in prisons must be overhauled in order to tackle a “persistent failure to reduce re-offending”, the justice secretary is to say.
BBC News – UK

A gunman kills four US Marines at a US Navy building in Tennessee before being shot dead in what is being investigated as an “act of domestic terrorism”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Militants in Sinai say they have hit an Egyptian navy ship with a missile, though the military gives a different account.
BBC News – Africa

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UK unemployment rose for the first time in more than two years in the March-to-May period, according to the latest official figures.
BBC News – Business