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An Algerian military transport plane with 78 people on board crashes in the mountainous north-east of the country, with one survivor found.
BBC News – Africa

Barclays releases profit figures a day earlier than expected, saying that it needed to provide clarity following a newspaper report.
BBC News – Business

There are reports of a new humanitarian truce being negotiated in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, as fresh peace talks begin in Geneva.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican vigilante groups parade through Apatzingan after apparently seizing it from the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel at the weekend.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A Swiss vote to bring back strict immigration quotas for Europeans draws criticism from France, Germany and Brussels.
BBC News – Europe

Thousands of homes along the River Thames are threatened with flooding as water levels continue to rise and as the political row over the crisis deepens.
BBC News – UK

South Korea and the US announce military drills, as North Korea revokes an invitation for talks on jailed US citizen Kenneth Bae.
BBC News – US & Canada

Former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda appears in court in The Hague for a ruling on whether he must stand trial for war crimes.
BBC News – Africa

A new body to try to get the long-term sick back to work more quickly in England, Wales and Scotland is being set up by the government.
BBC News – Business

An aid convoy bringing supplies into a besieged district of the Syrian city of Homs is trapped for several hours after coming under fire.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican vigilantes in Michoacan state enter a city stronghold of the Knights Templar drugs cartel, a month after beginning their offensive.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Spain’s Princess Cristina is being questioned in court over a corruption scandal involving her husband, a historic first for Spain’s royal family.
BBC News – Europe

Immigration minister Mark Harper resigns from the government after it emerges his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK.
BBC News – UK

Canadian sisters Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe win Winter Olympic gold and silver in the women’s moguls.
BBC News – US & Canada

The ICC’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says she has opened a preliminary investigation into possible war crimes in the Central African Republic.
BBC News – Africa

The number of individual insolvencies in England and Wales fell to its lowest level for eight years in 2013, according to government figures.
BBC News – Business

The first civilians are evacuated from the besieged city of Homs in Syria, under a temporary ceasefire deal.
BBC News – Middle East

Hundreds of Brazilian demonstrators clash with riot police in Rio de Janeiro, in a protest against a rise in public transport fares.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Germany’s Angela Merkel says a US official’s apparent insult of the EU’s work in Ukraine in a leaked recording is “totally unacceptable”.
BBC News – Europe

Residents of the flood-hit Somerset Levels accuse Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith of “letting everyone down”, as he and David Cameron visited the area.
BBC News – UK