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US parcels delivery firm FedEx is to buy Dutch rival TNT Express for €4.4bn (£3.22bn) as it looks to expand its European operations.
BBC News – Business

The battle for the Yemeni port of Aden has turned it into a “ghost city”, the head of the ICRC tells the BBC.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex says it is still searching for three workers who disappeared after a deadly fire at an oil rig.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Athens says Germany owes Greece nearly €279bn in war reparations for the Nazi occupation in World War Two.
BBC News – Europe

Ex-Labour PM Tony Blair enters the election fray, warning against an EU referendum – but David Cameron hits back, saying he wants to give people the choice.
BBC News – UK

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul launches his 2016 presidential election campaign on the Republican ticket.
BBC News – US & Canada

About 2,500 people march in Kenya’s Garissa town in a show of defiance against al-Shabab following its deadly assault on a university.
BBC News – Africa

With her two young boys bopping along right at her heels, 19-year old Kerstin Gonzalez raced into the offices at Sunbeam Family Services
Oklahoma City Thunder

It was a game highlighted by three crucial runs as the Thunder and Houston Rockets squared off, and unfortunately for the Oklahoma City f
Oklahoma City Thunder

A ban on displaying tobacco products is being extended to small shops, bars and clubs, joining a similar curb on supermarkets.
BBC News – Business

The Red Cross is due to make two emergency aid flights into Yemen’s capital Sanaa, as fighting intensifies in the southern city of Aden.
BBC News – Middle East

The death toll from Chile’s floods has risen to 25, rescue workers say, amid growing concern for the 125 people still missing.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has welcomed the news that Athens will make a loan payment due to the IMF this week.
BBC News – Europe

Sweeping changes to pension rules come into force which will give savers much more control over their money.
BBC News – UK

Rolling Stone magazine retracts a 2014 article about a rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, after a report calls it “a failure of journalism”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenya is holding three days of mourning for the 148 victims of an al-Shabab militant attack on students at Garissa University.
BBC News – Africa

There are no easy opponents in the NBA, and definitely not in the Western Conference.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Marks & Spencer shares rise to a seven-year high after a 0.7% gain for closely-watched general merchandising sales, the best performance in nearly four years.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi Shia militia, who helped recapture Tikrit from Islamic State, are pulled out of the city amid reports of violence and looting.
BBC News – Middle East

An indigenous tribe in the Amazon jungle succeeds after decades of campaigning in getting back blood samples taken by US researchers in the 1960s.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean