Saturday, January 22, 2011

Irish PM steps down as party leader

Irish PM steps down as party leader


Irish PM steps down as party leader

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 11:07 AM PST

Brian Cowen says he is stepping down as leader of Ireland's troubled ruling party but will remain as prime minister until the 11 March general election.

'Disappointment' over Iran talks

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 06:32 AM PST

Foreign powers negotiating with Tehran on its nuclear programme say they are "disappointed" after talks end without progress, and no further dates arranged.

Amanda Knox 'murder knife' tests

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 09:55 AM PST

An Italian court appoints experts to re-examine disputed DNA evidence on knife allegedly used in murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

UK bank inquiry head urges reforms

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 08:19 AM PST

The head of the commission reviewing whether the UK's biggest banks should be broken up says wide-ranging reform is needed.

Algeria police break up protest

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:32 AM PST

Several people are injured and others are arrested as police break up a pro-democracy march in Algeria's capital, Algiers, reports say.

Tunisian PM vows to leave power

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 06:06 AM PST

Tunisia's long-time PM Mohamed Ghannouchi pledges to quit politics after polls, amid calls for all figures linked to the ousted president to stand down.

Duvalier calls for reconciliation

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:26 PM PST

Former Haitian leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier tells reporters he returned home to work for national reconciliation and apologises to the victims of his 15-year rule.

Albanian PM defiant after unrest

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 11:43 PM PST

Prime Minister Sali Berisha of Albania says there will be no Tunisia-style uprising in his country after three die in unrest.

Two killed in Russian mall blaze

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 10:52 AM PST

At least two people are killed after fire engulfs a shopping centre in the central Russian city of Ufa, local officials say

Malaysia navy foils ship hijack

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:01 AM PST

Malaysian navy commandos foil an attempted ship hijacking in the Gulf of Aden, rescuing 23 crew members and capturing seven Somali pirates.

Fritzl's house to be demolished

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 06:09 PM PST

The house where Josef Fritzl locked his daughter in a cellar and fathered seven children by her is to be knocked down, reports say.

Lloyd Webber raises glass to Hong Kong wine sale

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:32 AM PST

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's wine collection has sold for $5.6m (£3.5m) at a Hong Kong auction.

Croco dial: aquarium fear for reptile after it eats phone

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:37 PM PST

Staff at an aquarium in Ukraine fear for one of their crocodiles after it ate a mobile phone dropped into its enclosure by a visitor.

Live - Saturday's football

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:08 AM PST

Aston Villa host Man City in Saturday's late Premier League game on a busy day in the top flight and Football League, following big wins for Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool and a dramatic late draw for Tottenham.

Man Utd 5-0 Birmingham

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 10:51 AM PST

Rampant Manchester United crush Birmingham as Dimitar Berbatov hits a hat-trick with Ryan Giggs in masterful form.

Nadal overcomes Tomic challenge

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:20 AM PST

World number one Rafael Nadal overcomes a spirited challenge from Australian Bernard Tomic to reach the last 16 in Melbourne.

NHS fraud cases 'show increase'

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 10:29 AM PST

The number of fraud cases investigated in the NHS has risen by 37% in the last three years, according to NHS Counter Fraud Service figures.

Forests privatisation 'opposed'

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 02:00 AM PST

Some 75% of people in a YouGov survey oppose government plans to sell off England's forests, it is revealed ahead of a consultation.

Search for new No 10 media chief

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 08:17 AM PST

The search is under way for a new director of communications at No 10 following the resignation of Andy Coulson.

Race issues 'threaten adoptions'

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:34 AM PST

Adoption is at a historic low due to reticence over mixed-race adoptions, says the outgoing chief executive of Barnardo's

Probe after four workers killed

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST

An investigation is under way after four men died in an industrial accident at an engineering company site in Norfolk.

Yeates suspect held for third day

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 03:01 AM PST

A man arrested over the murder of Jo Yeates in Bristol faces a third day of questioning by detectives.

Swinney appeals for budget unity

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 09:35 AM PST

The public "rightly expect" rival politicians to work together to deliver a budget, Finance Secretary John Swinney says.

Fuel 'could rise' to £8 a gallon

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 09:46 AM PST

Increased taxes and rising crude oil prices could soon push the price of fuel to as much as £8 a gallon, a motoring group has warned.

Man saves family from house fire

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 11:05 AM PST

A man rescues a family from a blaze at a house in Omagh, County Tyrone, and runs barefoot to alert officers at a nearby fire station who extinguish it.

Aironi 6-43 Ulster

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:21 AM PST

Ulster are into the Heineken Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 1999 after a fine six-try win away to Aironi.

House abandoned as forces retreat

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:11 AM PST

"Ambitious" plans to develop a Carmarthenshire mansion as an armed forces' convalescent home and treatment centre are dropped.

Man rescued from beach mud slide

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:34 AM PST

A walker in his twenties is rescued after becoming trapped up to his waist in a mud slide in Gower, south Wales.

Cuba stops postal service to US

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:30 PM PST

The Cuban postal service announces it will not accept post of any kind bound for the United States until further notice.

Obama pledges economy 'overdrive'

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:36 PM PST

President Barack Obama pledges to put the economy "into overdrive", as he announces the head of a new competitiveness panel.

South Africa's flood toll rises

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST

At least 70 people have now died from flooding in South Africa, as heavy rains threaten countries from Mozambique to Namibia.

Tethered teen shocks Netherlands

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 11:47 AM PST

TV footage of an 18-year-old Dutch psychiatric patient who has been tethered to a wall every day for the last three years prompts debate.

Jordan rally targets government

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:13 PM PST

More than 5,000 people have rally in Jordan to protest over economic policy and call for the prime minister to resign.

Deal reached on Afghan parliament

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 10:42 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed to convene the lower house of parliament, ending a political stand-off over the event, lawmakers say.

Japan's supply rocket lifts off

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 11:42 PM PST

A Japanese rocket with supplies for the International Space Station lifts off from a remote island in southern Japan.

Facebook offering raises $1.5bn

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:37 PM PST

Facebook says it has raised $1.5bn from investors, valuing the world's most popular social networking site at $50bn.

Do we pity the environment?

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:48 AM PST

Fear of environmental destruction causes us to pity and protect nature rather than oppose it, says Alain de Botton

Tunisian police join protesters

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 09:12 AM PST

In Tunisia, police join demonstrators calling for the interim government to resign.

Ten pound wedding dress challenge

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:08 AM PST

As Britain prepares to celebrate a royal wedding in a time of austerity, journalist and milliner Mary Jane Baxter sets herself the challenge of designing a stylish wedding dress for under ten pounds.

Tethered teen shocks Netherlands

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:05 PM PST

TV footage of an 18-year-old Dutch psychiatric patient who has been tethered to a wall every day for the last three years prompts debate.

Duvalier calls for reconciliation

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:38 AM PST

Former Haitian leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier calls for national reconciliation.

Row stops Cuban post reaching US

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:47 PM PST

A dispute over tightened American security procedures is preventing Cuban post reaching the US.

This is the news... Onion-style

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 02:02 AM PST

Jonny Dymond explores whether The Onion News network could be the future of "news-er-tainment".

The food of love

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:00 AM PST

The stressful job of cooking for foreign visitors to the White House

Match report

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:13 PM PST

What did China and the US take from the talks?

Tabloid tale

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:46 PM PST

UK phone-hacking row has long way to run

Tiger mothers

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:20 AM PST

Is strict Chinese parenting the way forward?

Scrap metal

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:29 AM PST

Destitute US steel mill towns blame China for lost industry

Memories of a martyr

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 10:05 PM PST

The man who triggered Tunisia's revolution

Notes of discord

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:22 PM PST

An annus horribilis for India's coalition government

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