Irish PM steps down as party leader |
- Irish PM steps down as party leader
- 'Disappointment' over Iran talks
- Amanda Knox 'murder knife' tests
- UK bank inquiry head urges reforms
- Algeria police break up protest
- Tunisian PM vows to leave power
- Duvalier calls for reconciliation
- Albanian PM defiant after unrest
- Two killed in Russian mall blaze
- Malaysia navy foils ship hijack
- Fritzl's house to be demolished
- Lloyd Webber raises glass to Hong Kong wine sale
- Croco dial: aquarium fear for reptile after it eats phone
- Live - Saturday's football
- Man Utd 5-0 Birmingham
- Nadal overcomes Tomic challenge
- NHS fraud cases 'show increase'
- Forests privatisation 'opposed'
- Search for new No 10 media chief
- Race issues 'threaten adoptions'
- Probe after four workers killed
- Yeates suspect held for third day
- Swinney appeals for budget unity
- Fuel 'could rise' to £8 a gallon
- Man saves family from house fire
- Aironi 6-43 Ulster
- House abandoned as forces retreat
- Man rescued from beach mud slide
- Cuba stops postal service to US
- Obama pledges economy 'overdrive'
- South Africa's flood toll rises
- Tethered teen shocks Netherlands
- Jordan rally targets government
- Deal reached on Afghan parliament
- Japan's supply rocket lifts off
- Facebook offering raises $1.5bn
- Do we pity the environment?
- Tunisian police join protesters
- Ten pound wedding dress challenge
- Tethered teen shocks Netherlands
- Duvalier calls for reconciliation
- Row stops Cuban post reaching US
- This is the news... Onion-style
- The food of love
- Match report
- Tabloid tale
- Tiger mothers
- Scrap metal
- Memories of a martyr
- Notes of discord
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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". |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:00 AM PST The stressful job of cooking for foreign visitors to the White House |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:13 PM PST What did China and the US take from the talks? |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:46 PM PST UK phone-hacking row has long way to run |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:20 AM PST Is strict Chinese parenting the way forward? |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:29 AM PST Destitute US steel mill towns blame China for lost industry |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2011 10:05 PM PST The man who triggered Tunisia's revolution |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:22 PM PST An annus horribilis for India's coalition government |
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