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The US economy added a weaker-than-expected 113,000 jobs in January, figures show, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.6%.
BBC News – US & Canada

Muslim communities in many towns in the Central African Republic are threatened as reprisal attacks on civilians continue, a medical charity warns
BBC News – Africa

Bombardier has won a £1bn contract to provide trains for the London Crossrail project, the government announces.
BBC News – Business

Egypt’s military chief Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said he will run for president, a Kuwaiti newspaper reports.
BBC News – Middle East

Spanish building company Sacyr denies that work on the expansion of the Panama Canal has been halted, but confirms a breakdown in negotiations.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The US advises airlines flying to Russia for the Winter Olympics that explosives hidden in toothpaste tubes could be smuggled on to planes.
BBC News – Europe

Large parts of the UK are braced for more heavy rain after being battered by storms.
BBC News – UK

A woman convicted of murder in Texas is put to death, only the 14th time a female has been executed in the US in nearly four decades.
BBC News – US & Canada

Rescue workers at the Doornkop gold mine in South Africa say they have recovered eight bodies after a fire, with one miner still unaccounted for.
BBC News – Africa

Technology giant Microsoft announces Satya Nadella will succeed Steve Ballmer as its chief executive, with Bill Gates becoming a “technology adviser”.
BBC News – Business

Libya had destroyed all its chemical arsenal as of 26 January, the country’s foreign minister announces.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos orders an investigation into reports that army agents have spied on government officials negotiating with Farc rebels.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine’s MPs are continuing crisis talks to try to change the constitution – a move aimed at curtailing the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych.
BBC News – Europe

The Prince of Wales says it is a “tragedy” that nothing happened for so long for flood-hit areas in the Somerset Levels, as power cuts and rail disruption hit south-west England.
BBC News – UK

Two generals and dozens of colonels are among hundreds implicated in a US military fraud involving recruitment fees during the Iraq war, officials say.
BBC News – US & Canada

A man suspected of being involved in the assassination of two prominent Tunisian opposition figures is among militants killed in a police raid in Tunis.
BBC News – Africa

Lloyds Banking Group says it is increasing its provision for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) by another £1.8bn, bringing the total to nearly £10bn.
BBC News – Business

Al-Qaeda insists it has no links the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which has been locked in deadly clashes with rebels in Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

Left-leaning candidate Luis Guillermo Solis has a narrow lead in Costa Rica’s presidential election, which is now likely to go into a run-off.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean