BBC News - World

• Philippines holds referendum for Muslim-majority Mindanao
  It is hoped the vote could end a decades-long insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives.
• Israel hits Iranian and Syrian targets around Damascus - military
  Israel's military says it hit sites operated by elite Iranian units as well as Syrian air defences.
• China economy: Fourth quarter growth slips to 6.4%
  A damaging trade fight with the US is adding to worries in China as its economic slowdown deepens.
• Letter from Africa: What is it like to report a terror attack?
  Kenyan TV presenter Waihiga Mwaura looks back at traumatic week following the hotel siege in Nairobi.
• The struggling farmer who planned his own funeral
  Malappa was one of the thousands of indebted Indian farmers who killed themselves last year.
• France and Germany to seal new deal as Brexit looms
  A new treaty between two of Europe's closest friends - but why now, and what's in it?
• Why are so many people still dying from snake bites?
  Most of the world's population lives near venomous snakes - but some are at greater risk than others.
• Trump wall - all you need to know about US border in seven charts
  A standoff over funding for the US president's promised border wall has led to a shutdown. What's going on?
• 'The bed that saved me from the Taliban'
  On 20 January 2018 Taliban gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Kabul that was popular with foreign guests - Vasileios Vasilieiou was one of them.
• WW2 wreckage found by grandson on Norwegian mountainside
  Royal Navy pilot Phil Richardson found the wreckage of his grandfather Ron's WW2 plane in Norway.