Friday, September 3, 2010

Police question Pakistan players

Police question Pakistan players


Police question Pakistan players

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:45 AM PDT

Police are questioning the three Pakistan players accused of corruption, while the ICC says that the players implicated have a disciplinary case to answer.

New phone hacking inquiries call

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:23 AM PDT

Senior Labour politicians urge fresh inquiries into phone hacking claims surrounding the News of the World newspaper.

Lib Dem veteran Cyril Smith dies

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:02 AM PDT

The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82, his family and party confirm.

Six men jailed for Portugal abuse

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:04 AM PDT

Six Portuguese men are sentenced to between five and 18 years in jail after being found guilty of multiple charges of sexual abuse at a state-run children's home.

Pakistan rally bomb kills dozens

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:24 AM PDT

A bomb kills at least 42 people at a Shia Muslim rally in the south-western city of Quetta, the second attack on Pakistan's religious minority in days.

UN calls special food price talks

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:40 AM PDT

The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices.

Earthquake hits south New Zealand

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:12 AM PDT

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck New Zealand's South Island, the US Geological Survey says.

Cargo plane crash near Dubai road

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:37 AM PDT

A cargo plane has crashed near a major motorway in Dubai, setting some cars on fire, local officials and media reports say.

Thompson defends BBC No 10 visit

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:14 AM PDT

Director general denies he compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts.

Former head guilty of sex abuse

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:17 AM PDT

A former boarding school head teacher is found guilty of more than 50 counts of sexually abusing and beating boys at schools in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Explosion at Hare Krishna temple

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:20 AM PDT

An explosion partly destroys a Hare Krishna temple in Leicester, but none of the worshippers are seriously hurt.

Baby Florence makes Downing Street debut

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 03:18 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha show off their baby daughter, Florence, for the first time on the steps of Number 10.

Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 06:35 AM PDT

Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station

Live - Euro 2012 qualifiers

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:30 AM PDT

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all kick off their Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns on a busy night of international football.

Live text - US Open day five

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:02 AM PDT

Defending women';s champion Kim Clijsters is in action on day five at Flushing Meadows, while Andy Murray takes on Dustin Brown at about 2000 BST.

Armenia 0-1 Republic of Ireland

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Keith Fahey's 76th-minute goal earns the Republic of Ireland victory in a tense opening Euro 2012 qualifier against Armenia in Yerevan.

Farah out of Commonwealth Games

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:55 AM PDT

Double European champion Mo Farah announces his withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games because of fatigue.

Probe as police crash seized car

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:23 AM PDT

Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.

Plane body women face no charges

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:38 AM PDT

Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will not face charges.

Police raids after drill attack

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:46 AM PDT

Police carry out two days of raids after a man was attacked with a power drill in North Lanarkshire.

Fans jailed for Uefa screen riot

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT

Eleven football hooligans who took part in the worst destruction Manchester has suffered "since the Blitz" will be going to jail, a judge has said.

PSNI rescue 'trafficking victims'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:20 AM PDT

Several "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast, police say.

Error 'no bearing on Donagh move'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:26 AM PDT

The justice minister David Ford says that a clerical error had no bearing in the decision to allow the McDermott brothers to return to Donagh.

MP says paper 'hacked' his phone

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:42 AM PDT

Welsh MP Chris Bryant says he believes his answer machine messages were intercepted by journalists at a tabloid newspaper.

Daughter denies murdering father

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:01 AM PDT

A teenager pleads not guilty to murdering her 61-year-old father along with three other people.

Mozambique police fire at rioters

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:26 AM PDT

Police in Mozambique's capital fire rubber bullets on the third day of riots, as the violence spreads to the central city of Chimoio.

SA condemns Madagascar jail term

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:37 AM PDT

South Africa strongly criticises Madagascar over the life sentence passed on exiled President Marc Ravalomanana.

Japan imposes new Iran sanctions

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 09:35 PM PDT

Japan imposes new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme but maintains its oil import schedule.

China warships end Burma visit

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 10:01 PM PDT

The first visit of Chinese warships to Burma ends as top Burmese leader Than Shwe prepares to visit Beijing, highlighting the two country's close ties.

Irish delay EU-Israel data deal

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Dublin delays a deal to allow transfers of EU citizens' data to Israel, which is accused of forging passports.

Fox rules out French 'ship share'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:32 AM PDT

Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.

Mexican clash 'kills 27 gunmen'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:51 AM PDT

Twenty-seven suspected drug gang members are killed in a clash with troops near the US border, Mexico's army says, hours after the country's president vows to continue the fight against drug cartels.

Amazon river level at 40-year low

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 05:49 PM PDT

The River Amazon has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, leaving boats stranded.

Iran says Mid-East talks doomed

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 06:58 AM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are doomed to fail, in the first regional reaction to the talks.

Egypt spy chief poster campaign

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 10:08 AM PDT

Posters promoting Egypt's intelligence chief appear on the streets of Cairo, amid growing speculation over who will succeed President Hosni Mubarak.

Anthrax outbreak hits Bangladesh

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:02 AM PDT

Officials in northern Bangladesh battle to contain an anthrax outbreak that has infected more than 250 people.

S Lanka panel lost in translation

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:23 AM PDT

A key witness at the commission set up to examine the last years of Sri Lanka's civil war complains his words were not properly translated.

US sees 54,000 jobs go in August

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:05 AM PDT

The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show.

Hurricane Earl skirts eastern US

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:50 AM PDT

A weakened hurricane Earl skirts past North Carolina's Outer Banks and continues up the US east coast as a "category one" storm.

HSBC threatens to quit London HQ

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:19 AM PDT

HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says.

BP says oil spill cost up to $8bn

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:28 AM PDT

BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.

Shift in home loan availability

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 06:07 AM PDT

The cost of mortgages is continuing to fall and they are becoming more accessible to some borrowers, figures show.

Prescott urges phone hack review

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:36 AM PDT

Lord Prescott says he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.

Farage to contest UKIP leadership

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:52 AM PDT

Nigel Farage says he will stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party, a position he held until last year.

School lottery 'failed in aim'

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 04:49 PM PDT

England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.

'No evidence' implants are toxic

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:36 AM PDT

Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say.

Compost sparks Legionnaire's fear

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 04:03 PM PDT

Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost.

Men in short supply in primaries

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:52 AM PDT

One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.

Prodigy makes Cambridge history

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:13 AM PDT

A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.

PS3 hack escapes court challenge

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 03:43 AM PDT

Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web.

Plans for solar 'close encounter'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:44 AM PDT

Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.

Wolves fail to halt aspen decline

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:20 AM PDT

The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.

Method to trace persistent CFCs

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 05:49 PM PDT

Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.

DJs unite for Love Parade track

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Three of the world's most successful club DJs join forces to pay tribute to those who died at the Love Parade festival in Germany in July.

Cheryl and Ashley granted divorce

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Cheryl and Ashley Cole are granted a divorce at the High Court after four years of marriage.

Hirst works 'inspired by others'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:10 AM PDT

A group that campaigns against conceptual art claims 15 works by the artist Damien Hirst were inspired by other artists.

Autobiographies of the rich and famous

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:12 AM PDT

Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers?

What does the future hold for television?

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 06:19 AM PDT

Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.

Panda twins delight Japanese zoo

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:47 AM PDT

New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.

Sharks swarm off Australian coast

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:07 AM PDT

Hundreds of sharks have been spotted off the Queensland coast.

Bath tub sailor - it's Odd Box

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 10:57 AM PDT

A man sailing the sea in a bath tub, mud sculptures and an ugly fish who finds love - it's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

Probably the world's oldest beer

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:37 AM PDT

A team of divers say they have found the world's oldest drinkable beer in a shipwreck off the coast of Finland.

On board UK's newest attack sub

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 10:31 PM PDT

Commander Andy Coles shows BBC News around the control room of the Royal Navy's new attack submarine and talks about life on board.

Florence Cameron's Downing St debut

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 02:29 AM PDT

David and Samantha Cameron have introduced their new daughter, Florence, on the steps of 10 Downing Street.

'I was nearly six foot at 11 years old'

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:48 AM PDT

President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the rest?

Now you see it, now you don't

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 07:45 PM PDT

A glimpse on board the UK's new stealth submarine

Midnight feast

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 04:42 PM PDT

Why bed-bug infestations are on the rise again

Massive Mini

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:28 AM PDT

How far can BMW stretch the brand before it snaps?

7 days quiz

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 09:17 AM PDT

How much is a bottle of beer under new price laws on booze?

Troubled waters

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 11:41 PM PDT

Why aren't black American children taught to swim?

Speaking the lingo

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 10:13 PM PDT

Does the NHS do enough for non-English speakers?

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