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- International alert on air cargo
- US economic growth rate quickens
- Nature talks end with 'weak' deal
- Italy doctors jailed for surgery scam
- EU clinches pact to defend euro
- Japan-China row flares at Asean
- Argentina to bury Nestor Kirchner
- Beating malaria 'impossible' now
- N Korea troops 'fire at S Korea'
- Bad weather slows tsunami relief
- Take That fans crash ticket sites
- Maldives vows wedding crackdown
- Everest climbers get 3G network
- Fifa retains World Cup vote date
- Dementieva announces retirement
- Uefa hands Italy default victory
- Cameron claims EU budget success
- UK alert over package on flight
- Kidnap fears of Norgrove parents
- Benefit cuts will work - Cameron
- Jade Goody website 'troll' jailed
- Cat-drowning woman sent to jail
- Actor Gerard Kelly dies aged 51
- Miliband: 'Fightback has begun'
- Pensioner dies after city attack
- Warning for staff at PSNI bases
- Asbo OAP 'too ill' to face trial
- Factory demo over biomass subsidy
- Hawaii Five-O star MacArthur dies
- Flaws were 'known before BP leak'
- Twenty die in Mexican shootings
- SA inmates request circumcision
- Angola urged to probe Congo rapes
- Bodies found in Antarctica crash
- Nato to halve its force in Kosovo
- Iran agrees November nuclear date
- Herod archaeologist dies in fall
- Russia and US in Afghan drug raid
- Arrests in Maldives wedding abuse
- Afghan fighters train Australians
- Burma court hears Suu Kyi appeal
- BA in first profit for two years
- Alstom loses Eurostar court case
- Conrad Black convictions upheld
- MPs accuse Google on wi-fi data
- Mass Effect 2 wins 'game of year'
- Tube gets first wi-fi connection
- Protests delay Rome festival gala
- Hobbit law passed in New Zealand
- Mission: Impossible 4 is renamed
- Study measures rise of jellyfish
- Eutelsat suffers spacecraft loss
- Earth-sized planets 'very common'
- Air tax rises: Your views
- Quiz of the week's news
- Is modern fiction just not up to scratch?
- Pakistan's 'forgotten' flood victims
- Tsunami surfer: 'I thought I would die'
- Police probe Maldives wedding abuse
- Indian army officer's TV tower jump
- Beckhams 'argue' on US TV show
- Bollywood star 'adopts' 34 girls
- Ariane-5 rocket launches satellites
- Crash pad: Car flies into house
- Home haunters
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| International alert on air cargo Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:55 AM PDT Security alerts are under way in the US, UK and Middle East after suspicious packages from Yemen are found in Britain and Dubai. |
| US economic growth rate quickens Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:16 AM PDT The US economy saw slightly faster growth in July to September, official figures show, but the pace of recovery remains sluggish ahead of next week's key mid-term elections. |
| Nature talks end with 'weak' deal Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:15 AM PDT An international biodiversity summit in Japan agrees a 10-year plan aimed at preserving nature, but conservation groups fear the deal is too weak. |
| Italy doctors jailed for surgery scam Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:17 AM PDT Italian authorities jail a group of doctors for carrying out dozens of unnecessary operations, including breast and lung removal, for financial gain. |
| EU clinches pact to defend euro Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:27 AM PDT EU leaders say tough new budget rules agreed at their summit in Brussels will protect the euro from a future Greek-style debt crisis. |
| Japan-China row flares at Asean Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:32 AM PDT A diplomatic spat between China and Japan over a group of disputed islands flares up again, hours after an apparently friendly bilateral meeting. |
| Argentina to bury Nestor Kirchner Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:28 AM PDT The body of Argentina's former president Nestor Kirchner is to be flown to the south of the country and buried in the city of Rio Gallegos later on Friday. |
| Beating malaria 'impossible' now Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:59 AM PDT Controlling rather than trying to eradicate malaria might be more effective, experts say. |
| N Korea troops 'fire at S Korea' Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:10 AM PDT North Korean troops have fired two shots across the border into South Korean territory and the South has returned fire, Seoul says. |
| Bad weather slows tsunami relief Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:05 AM PDT Bad weather is again obstructing efforts to get aid to the survivors of the Indonesian tsunami as the death toll tops 400. |
| Take That fans crash ticket sites Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:27 AM PDT Ticket agencies struggle to cope as fans rush to secure their places to see Take That and Robbie Williams on tour for the first time in 16 years. |
| Maldives vows wedding crackdown Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:21 AM PDT The Maldives' president promises strict new rules on wedding ceremonies for tourists, after a couple renewing their vows were abused. |
| Everest climbers get 3G network Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:00 AM PDT Climbers of Mount Everest can now make video phone calls and surf the internet through a 3G mobile phone network, a Nepalese telecoms provider says. |
| Fifa retains World Cup vote date Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:18 AM PDT Fifa president Sepp Blatter says the vote to decide the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts will still take place on 2 December. |
| Dementieva announces retirement Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:35 AM PDT Olympic champion and world number nine Elena Dementieva announces her retirement from tennis after her final match at the WTA Championships in Doha. |
| Uefa hands Italy default victory Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:03 AM PDT Uefa has awarded Italy a 3-0 win over Serbia after their Euro 2012 qualifier in Genoa on 12 October was abandoned. |
| Cameron claims EU budget success Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:44 AM PDT UK PM David Cameron says he has protected British taxpayers at a Brussels summit - amid criticism he has agreed to an EU budget rise that will cost the UK an extra £450m. |
| UK alert over package on flight Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:30 AM PDT A "suspicious object" found at East Midlands Airport was on a plane flying from Yemen to Chicago, the BBC understands. |
| Kidnap fears of Norgrove parents Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:00 AM PDT The parents of Linda Norgrove, killed in Afghanistan during a failed rescue attempt, speak about her kidnapping and death. |
| Benefit cuts will work - Cameron Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:13 AM PDT The prime minister says he does not predict a problem in implementing child benefit cuts, amid claims plans are unenforceable. |
| Jade Goody website 'troll' jailed Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:34 AM PDT An "internet troll" who posted obscene and offensive messages on Facebook sites dedicated to the memories of dead people is jailed. |
| Cat-drowning woman sent to jail Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:31 AM PDT An Oxfordshire woman who drowned eight pet cats in a bath because she claimed she could not afford a phone call to have them rescued is jailed. |
| Actor Gerard Kelly dies aged 51 Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:20 AM PDT Television, film and stage actor Gerard Kelly dies at the age of 51 after suffering a brain aneurysm earlier this week. |
| Miliband: 'Fightback has begun' Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:42 AM PDT Labour leader Ed Miliband rallies supporters ahead of next May's Scottish elections, declaring "the fightback has begun". |
| Pensioner dies after city attack Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:06 AM PDT A 70-year-old man who was attacked in Lisburn earlier this month dies in hospital. |
| Warning for staff at PSNI bases Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:56 AM PDT Civilian staff at police stations across Northern Ireland are told to review security after personal details are revealed. |
| Asbo OAP 'too ill' to face trial Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:09 AM PDT A judge rules that an 84-year-old pensioner is too ill to face a trial over claims she had breached an Asbo put in place to protect her neighbours from abuse. |
| Factory demo over biomass subsidy Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:20 AM PDT A wood panel plant holds a "symbolic" shutdown in protest at what bosses and 600 staff say is the risk to jobs caused by "unfair subsidies". |
| Hawaii Five-O star MacArthur dies Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:17 AM PDT Actor James MacArthur, best known for playing Detective Dan "Danno" Williams on the original Hawaii Five-O TV show, dies aged 72. |
| Flaws were 'known before BP leak' Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:42 AM PDT The companies drilling the BP Gulf of Mexico oil well had test results showing cement used to seal it before the blowout was unstable, US investigators find. |
| Twenty die in Mexican shootings Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:28 AM PDT At least nine Mexican police officers are shot and killed in an ambush - the sixth multiple killing in Mexico in less than a week. |
| SA inmates request circumcision Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:50 AM PDT South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province say it is "overwhelmed" by the number of prisoners wanting to be circumcised to help combat HIV. |
| Angola urged to probe Congo rapes Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:11 AM PDT Angola should investigate the alleged rapes of women deported to Democratic Republic of Congo, the US State Department says. |
| Bodies found in Antarctica crash Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:25 AM PDT An Australian plane searching for survivors of a French helicopter crash in Antarctica spots three bodies, French officials say. |
| Nato to halve its force in Kosovo Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:07 AM PDT Nato says it will halve its force in Kosovo to 5,000 soldiers over the next few months because of improving security. |
| Iran agrees November nuclear date Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:52 AM PDT Iran says it is prepared to hold talks on its nuclear programme in November, as the US confirms it is working on a new fuel swap offer for Tehran. |
| Herod archaeologist dies in fall Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:18 AM PDT Ehud Netzer, 76, the Israeli archaeologist credited with discovering the tomb of the biblical King Herod, has died after falling during a dig. |
| Russia and US in Afghan drug raid Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:45 AM PDT Russian and US agents have taken part in a joint operation to destroy drug laboratories in Afghanistan, Russia's drug control agency says. |
| Arrests in Maldives wedding abuse Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:09 AM PDT Police in the Maldives arrest two employees of a resort allegedly involved in abusing a European couple renewing their marriage vows. |
| Afghan fighters train Australians Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:49 AM PDT Afghan militants are flown to Australia to train the country's special forces in how to tackle the Taliban insurgency. |
| Burma court hears Suu Kyi appeal Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:07 AM PDT Burma's top court hears pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi's release plea, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for credible elections. |
| BA in first profit for two years Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:58 AM PDT British Airways reports a profit of £158m, its first in two years, as the company prepares to merge with Iberia of Spain. |
| Alstom loses Eurostar court case Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:12 AM PDT Alstom, the French engineering company, fails in an attempt to prevent Eurostar from running German trains through the Channel Tunnel. |
| Conrad Black convictions upheld Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:49 AM PDT Former media tycoon Conrad Black has two convictions upheld and two reversed by a court of appeal in Chicago. |
| MPs accuse Google on wi-fi data Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:48 AM PDT MPs in the UK have reignited the debate about Google's Street View service and its collection of personal data. |
| Mass Effect 2 wins 'game of year' Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:55 AM PDT The role-playing game has been voted the ultimate game of the year by fans at this year's Golden Joysticks. |
| Tube gets first wi-fi connection Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:11 AM PDT Charing Cross will become the first tube station to get mobile phones and other devices working underground. |
| Protests delay Rome festival gala Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:58 AM PDT Actresses Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes avoid the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival opening after protesters picket the event. |
| Hobbit law passed in New Zealand Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:23 AM PDT New Zealand's parliament passes legislation that will keep the production of two Hobbit films in the country. |
| Mission: Impossible 4 is renamed Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:36 AM PDT The fourth Mission: Impossible film, which sees Tom Cruise return as secret agent Ethan Hunt, will now be called Ghost Protocol. |
| Study measures rise of jellyfish Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:13 AM PDT Researchers look at how jellyfish may benefit from marine ecosystems destabilised by climate change and overfishing. |
| Eutelsat suffers spacecraft loss Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:54 AM PDT Paris-based Eutelsat announces the loss of its W3B spacecraft the day after it was launched by an Ariane rocket. |
| Earth-sized planets 'very common' Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:33 AM PDT Nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-sized planets, according to a new estimate published in the journal Science. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:42 AM PDT Air taxes are to rise by up to 55% making some trips unaffordable, the travel industry has warned. BBC News website readers share their views. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:15 AM PDT The Magazine's weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions - plus the Weekly Bonus Question. |
| Is modern fiction just not up to scratch? Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:20 PM PDT As a new shortlist for a literary prize is announced, is the quality of modern fiction not as good as it once was? |
| Pakistan's 'forgotten' flood victims Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Many people in Pakistan are struggling to cope and fearful for the future, three months after floods devastated large parts of the country. |
| Tsunami surfer: 'I thought I would die' Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:17 AM PDT A surfer who filmed his and his friends' narrow escape from the Indonesian tsunami has said he "thought it was the end". |
| Police probe Maldives wedding abuse Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:10 AM PDT An investigation has been launched in the Maldives after a foreign couple were subjected to a torrent of abuse during a ceremony to renew their wedding vows. |
| Indian army officer's TV tower jump Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:23 AM PDT An army signals officer with more than 1,200 base jumps to his credit has launched himself off the 235m high Doordarshan TV tower at Pitam Pura in Delhi. |
| Beckhams 'argue' on US TV show Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:16 AM PDT David Beckham made an appearance on US chat show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", in which he and wife Victoria argued about his bad habits. |
| Bollywood star 'adopts' 34 girls Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:58 AM PDT Bollywood actress Preity Zinta on how she decided to celebrate her birthday by 'adopting' 34 young girls and putting them through education. |
| Ariane-5 rocket launches satellites Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:06 AM PDT An Ariane-5 rocket has been successfully launched from the Guiana Space Center, delivering communications satellites which will relay services to European and Japanese operators. |
| Crash pad: Car flies into house Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:33 PM PDT An Australian man is lucky to be alive after a car crashed into his bedroom wall in a house in Melbourne's outer east suburb. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:23 AM PDT How US DIYers turn houses into Halloween theme parks |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:59 AM PDT Striking images from around the world |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:33 AM PDT How is the EU budget spent and by how much has it risen? |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:19 PM PDT Sir, dude, bro, buddy - how was Obama addressed? |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:06 AM PDT Liberal voters on what has changed under Obama |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:31 AM PDT Uganda's evicted Batwa forest-dwellers get first graduate |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:37 PM PDT Could cloning be biodiversity back-up plan? |
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