Huge protest rejects Mubarak move |
- Huge protest rejects Mubarak move
- Mubarak 'lent French PM a plane'
- New rocket could lift astronauts
- Muslims attack Indonesia churches
- Charles Taylor lawyer storms out of trial
- Prosecutors seek Berlusconi trial
- US clears Toyota over electronics
- Sweden Assange inquiry 'improper'
- Man killed by cockfighting bird
- Obama 'has not smoked in a year'
- Church gives blessing to iPhone confessions
- Ancient ale to be recreated from shipwreck sample
- Injured Morgan replaced by Bopara
- Guardiola agrees Barca extension
- Three in frame to replace Kubica
- Government to increase bank levy
- BA forces new crew strike ballot
- Helicopter bid process is halted
- Woman 'would hit robbers again'
- Bomb suspect's wife recalls blast
- Sex-on-duty police officer jailed
- Murder inquiry after flat blaze
- SNP moves closer to budget deal
- Murders 'joint plan' court told
- Booby-trap left on child's bike
- Two daughters get life for murder
- Hospital hygiene 'superior' claim
- 'US teens' die in Mexico shooting
- US embassies' 'exploitation risk'
- 'Six dead' in Brazil prison riot
- Haiti 'gives Aristide passport'
- Fire ravages Ivory Coast treasury
- Pirates seize Italian oil tanker
- Chechen rebel admits airport bomb
- 'New risk' at Hungary sludge site
- Hague on 'reform tour' in Tunisia
- Pakistan strike grounds flights
- Three Indian WWF staff 'released'
- Australian MPs weep for victims
- China raises interest rates again
- Irish lenders' assets up for sale
- UBS returns to full-year profit
- US sees Brazil as yuan fight ally
- Newspapers warn Apple over sales
- File-sharing case 'must continue'
- Europe's virus victims revealed
- Super Bowl breaks viewing record
- Cameras allowed at Jackson trial
- Streep image of Thatcher revealed
- Studying how snakes got legless
- Sleepwalking 'link to chromosome'
- Climate report urges preparedness
- Swine flu narcolepsy link probed
- Healthy diet boosts childhood IQ
- At what age can you babysit a toddler?
- VIDEO: Australian PM weeps over disasters
- VIDEO: South Africa's battle with rhino poachers
- VIDEO: Aftermath of Thai-Cambodian clash
- VIDEO: Attack on Indonesian churches
- VIDEO: Tiger mum 'stands by' tough parenting
- VIDEO: Egypt reporter faces anger and suspicion
- VIDEO: Rumsfeld no regrets over Iraq war
- VIDEO: A lesson in Oscar Academy protocol
- War on abortion
- No food no school
- Day in pictures
- 50 strange names
- Fossil forests
- Back to basics
| Huge protest rejects Mubarak move Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:09 AM PST Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian protesters in central Cairo reject President Mubarak's plans for a gradual handover of power. |
| Mubarak 'lent French PM a plane' Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:47 AM PST French PM Francois Fillon says Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lent him a plane and paid for lodgings during a family holiday at new year. |
| New rocket could lift astronauts Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:08 AM PST US and European companies propose a new rocket they say could conduct astronaut launches after the shuttles are retired later this year. |
| Muslims attack Indonesia churches Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:21 AM PST More than 1,000 Muslims storm a Java courthouse and burn two churches, the latest incident in a wave of religious violence in Indonesia. |
| Charles Taylor lawyer storms out of trial Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:55 AM PST Liberia's former leader Charles Taylor's defence lawyer walks out of the closing stages of his war crimes trial in the Hague. |
| Prosecutors seek Berlusconi trial Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:05 AM PST Italian prosecutors say they will ask for PM Silvio Berlusconi to be tried for alleged sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power. |
| US clears Toyota over electronics Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:48 AM PST A US investigation into Toyota safety problems finds no electronic flaws to explain complaints about unintended acceleration. |
| Sweden Assange inquiry 'improper' Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:01 AM PST A witness at the UK extradition hearing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange questions the approach adopted by Swedish prosecutors. |
| Man killed by cockfighting bird Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:51 AM PST A US man attending an illegal cockfight died after being accidentally stabbed in the leg by an armed bird, officials say. |
| Obama 'has not smoked in a year' Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:15 AM PST US President Barack Obama has not smoked a cigarette in almost a year, First Lady Michelle Obama says. |
| Church gives blessing to iPhone confessions Posted: 08 Feb 2011 02:59 AM PST Church leaders in the UK and US have given their approval to an iPhone app that helps Catholics through confession. |
| Ancient ale to be recreated from shipwreck sample Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:46 AM PST Beer found in a 200-year-old shipwreck, the world's oldest surviving beer sample, is to be chemically analysed by Finnish scientists - and brewed again. |
| Injured Morgan replaced by Bopara Posted: 08 Feb 2011 06:57 AM PST England call Ravi Bopara into their 15-man World Cup squad after Eoin Morgan is ruled out with an injury. |
| Guardiola agrees Barca extension Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:04 AM PST Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola will extend his contract with the Spanish champions until the end of next season. |
| Three in frame to replace Kubica Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:58 AM PST Renault announce that Bruno Senna, Vitantonio Liuzzi, and Nick Heidfeld are in the frame to replace the injured Robert Kubica. |
| Government to increase bank levy Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:55 AM PST The government says it will increase the levy on UK banks by £800m to £2.5bn, prompting fury from bankers and provoking barbed debate in parliament. |
| BA forces new crew strike ballot Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:45 AM PST British Airways cabin crew are to be balloted again on strike action after the airline said a previous vote was unlawful. |
| Helicopter bid process is halted Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:14 AM PST The bidding process to provide search and rescue helicopters has been halted after "irregularities" in the process came to light. |
| Woman 'would hit robbers again' Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:46 AM PST A woman filmed attacking a gang of armed robbers with her handbag in Northampton says she would do the same again. |
| Bomb suspect's wife recalls blast Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:10 AM PST The wife of a reservist soldier accused of trying to murder her by booby-trapping her car recalls the moment an explosion ripped through her vehicle. |
| Sex-on-duty police officer jailed Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:13 AM PST A police officer who had sex with a vulnerable woman he was supposed to have been protecting from harm is jailed for 32 months. |
| Murder inquiry after flat blaze Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:30 AM PST Police launch a murder inquiry after a man dies following a suspicious fire at a flat in Edinburgh. |
| SNP moves closer to budget deal Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:54 AM PST The Scottish government moves closer to a deal on passing its budget, after the Lib Dems indicate they may support the plans. |
| Murders 'joint plan' court told Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:09 AM PST A woman accused of murdering her husband and her lover's wife played an active role in the killing plan, a Crown lawyer has said. |
| Booby-trap left on child's bike Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:56 AM PST A booby-trap bomb found by police on north's Belfast's Antrim Road last month was attached to a child's bicycle, it has been revealed. |
| Two daughters get life for murder Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:42 AM PST Two teenage sisters - and their boyfriends - are sentenced to life, with minimum terms of between 22 and 18 years for murdering their father. |
| Hospital hygiene 'superior' claim Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:22 AM PST Standards of hygiene in hospitals are "far, far superior" than they were 15 years ago, First Minister Carwyn Jones says. |
| 'US teens' die in Mexico shooting Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:19 AM PST Three teenage boys, at least two of whom are believed to have been US citizens, were killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities say |
| US embassies' 'exploitation risk' Posted: 07 Feb 2011 06:38 PM PST US investigators find "indicators" of exploitation and coercion of low-level staff at US missions in four Gulf countries. |
| 'Six dead' in Brazil prison riot Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:14 AM PST A riot at an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil leaves six inmates dead, some of whom have been decapitated, reports say. |
| Haiti 'gives Aristide passport' Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:42 PM PST Haiti says it has issued former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with a passport, paving the way for his return to the country after seven years in exile. |
| Fire ravages Ivory Coast treasury Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:21 AM PST A fire breaks out at Ivory Coast's treasury building, as the political impasse continues after disputed elections. |
| Pirates seize Italian oil tanker Posted: 08 Feb 2011 06:57 AM PST A group of pirates has boarded and seized control of an Italian oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, Italian and EU officials say. |
| Chechen rebel admits airport bomb Posted: 08 Feb 2011 02:51 AM PST One of Russia's most wanted men, Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, says he ordered last month's bomb attack which left 36 dead at a Moscow airport. |
| 'New risk' at Hungary sludge site Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:32 AM PST Waste water from a Hungarian aluminium plant still contains toxic chemicals despite a big clean-up there, Greenpeace says. |
| Hague on 'reform tour' in Tunisia Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:18 AM PST UK Foreign Secretary William Hague meets Tunisia's interim prime minister at the start of a tour of North African and Middle Eastern countries affected by demands for political change. |
| Pakistan strike grounds flights Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:18 AM PST Pakistan's state-owned airline PIA cancels some flights as staff strike in protest at a planned route-sharing deal. |
| Three Indian WWF staff 'released' Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:07 AM PST Indian police say that three female wildlife officials kidnapped in the north-eastern state of Assam have been released, but three men are held. |
| Australian MPs weep for victims Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:59 AM PST Australian MPs cry as they pay tribute to the tens of thousands of people whose lives have been devastated by recent floods, cyclones and bushfires. |
| China raises interest rates again Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:10 AM PST China's central bank raises interest rates for the third time in four months as authorities ramp up efforts to tackle inflation. |
| Irish lenders' assets up for sale Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:51 AM PST The Irish Republic will start an auction process for the sale of the deposits and assets of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide. |
| UBS returns to full-year profit Posted: 07 Feb 2011 10:57 PM PST Swiss bank UBS posts a net profit of 7.2bn Swiss francs for 2010 - its first full-year profit since the financial crisis. |
| US sees Brazil as yuan fight ally Posted: 07 Feb 2011 11:09 PM PST The value of China's currency is back in the spotlight as the US seeks to increase the number of countries asking for a stronger yuan. |
| Newspapers warn Apple over sales Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:03 AM PST Apple could use its dominant position to control subscriptions for iPad and iPhone editions, the European newspaper industry warns. |
| File-sharing case 'must continue' Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:24 AM PST A controversial law firm that sent thousand of letters to alleged illegal file sharers is told its cases must be heard in court. |
| Europe's virus victims revealed Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:00 AM PST Almost one third of internet users in the European Union caught a PC virus despite the majority having security software installed, statistics show. |
| Super Bowl breaks viewing record Posted: 08 Feb 2011 03:11 AM PST Sunday's Super Bowl breaks the record for the biggest US television audience for a single broadcast. |
| Cameras allowed at Jackson trial Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:58 AM PST The trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, can be televised as long as cameras do not interfere with proceedings, a judge rules. |
| Streep image of Thatcher revealed Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:27 AM PST Film fans get their first glimpse of Hollywood actress Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in upcoming film The Iron Lady. |
| Studying how snakes got legless Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:19 AM PST A 95-million-year-old fossil snake is helping scientists understand how these creatures lost their legs through the course of evolutionary time. |
| Sleepwalking 'link to chromosome' Posted: 07 Feb 2011 05:53 PM PST US scientists believe they have discovered the genetic code that makes some people sleepwalk. |
| Climate report urges preparedness Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:41 PM PST Getting prepared early for climate change impacts would bring economic benefits to the UK, engineering institutions say. |
| Swine flu narcolepsy link probed Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:59 AM PST At least 12 countries have reported a possible link between a vaccine for swine flu and cases of a rare sleeping disorder, the World Health Organization has revealed. |
| Healthy diet boosts childhood IQ Posted: 07 Feb 2011 11:52 PM PST Eating processed food may be damaging to a child's intelligence, according to researchers at Bristol University. |
| At what age can you babysit a toddler? Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:56 AM PST A mother has been given an official police caution for leaving her 14-year-old son in charge of his three-year-old brother, it emerges. At what age can children be left at home alone without parental supervision? |
| VIDEO: Australian PM weeps over disasters Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:59 AM PST Australian PM Julia Gillard pays tribute to the tens of thousands of people whose lives have been devastated by floods, cyclones and fires. |
| VIDEO: South Africa's battle with rhino poachers Posted: 08 Feb 2011 03:36 AM PST Three suspected rhino poachers have been shot and killed by rangers in South Africa's Kruger National Park. |
| VIDEO: Aftermath of Thai-Cambodian clash Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:13 AM PST At least five people were killed in clashes over the weekend between Thai and Cambodian troops over a disputed border area near a temple. |
| VIDEO: Attack on Indonesian churches Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:50 AM PST More than 1,000 Muslim protesters have stormed a courthouse and burned two churches in central Java, Indonesia. |
| VIDEO: Tiger mum 'stands by' tough parenting Posted: 08 Feb 2011 02:33 AM PST How far would you go to ensure that your child does well at school? Would you ban playtime and TV? Or threaten to set fire to their toys if they don't complete hours of music practice? |
| VIDEO: Egypt reporter faces anger and suspicion Posted: 07 Feb 2011 09:34 AM PST Panorama reporter Jane Corbin encounters anger and suspicion of foreign journalists in Egypt when she goes to meet the family of one of the victim's of Cairo's uprising. |
| VIDEO: Rumsfeld no regrets over Iraq war Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:37 AM PST Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended decisions that he made during his time in office, in his first television interview since leaving public life in December 2006. |
| VIDEO: A lesson in Oscar Academy protocol Posted: 07 Feb 2011 11:30 PM PST Oscar hopes ride high for Colin Firth and his new film, The King's Speech. |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:44 AM PST Video stings, rows over rape... the US abortion debate gets heated |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:11 AM PST Drought means Kenyan children abandon their lessons |
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2011 05:34 PM PST Antarctica's dinosaur-age jungles could provide clues to the future |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2011 05:45 PM PST Young Poles play grim communist shopping game |
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