Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Egypt's Mubarak pleads not guilty

Egypt's Mubarak pleads not guilty

Egypt's Mubarak pleads not guilty

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak denies all the charges against him as he lies on a hospital bed in a courtroom cage on the opening day of his trial.

Berlusconi bid to calm debt fears

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi breaks his silence in move to reassure financial markets that the country's banks are 'solid and solvent'.

Tanks storm Syrian protest city

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:56 AM PDT

Government tanks reportedly move deep into the central Syrian city of Hama to put down opposition protests, as the UN Security Council debates its response.

Australian freed after bomb drama

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:27 AM PDT

Australian police rescue a young woman after 10 hours of tense efforts to deal with a suspected bomb that was reportedly strapped to her body.

'Massive' cyber attack revealed

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:45 AM PDT

IT security firm McAfee says it has uncovered one of the largest ever cyber attacks, on more than 70 different organisations, including the UN.

More Somali areas hit by famine

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Three new areas of Somalia are classified as being hit by famine as the worst drought in 60 years affects the Horn of Africa, the UN says

UK makes 'record' cocaine seizure

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:30 AM PDT

A haul of cocaine with a street value of up to £300m is found hidden inside a luxury yacht in Southampton.

Norway attacks memorial cleared

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:21 AM PDT

A vast memorial of flowers left outside Oslo's cathedral in honour of the 77 victims of last month's attacks is cleared away.

Shell admits Nigeria oil spills

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Oil giant Shell accepts responsibility for two oil spills in Nigeria's Ogoniland region, in what activists say could set a legal precedent for UK courts.

Israel Fogel family killer guilty

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:02 AM PDT

An Israeli military court has found an 18-year-old Palestinian man guilty of the murder of a settler family in the West Bank, an army spokesman says.

Heather Mills 'told phone hacked'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:31 AM PDT

Charity campaigner Heather Mills tells BBC's Newsnight a senior Mirror Group journalist admitted hacking voicemails left for her by Sir Paul McCartney.

Internet Explorer story was bogus

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 03:50 AM PDT

A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.

Alfred Hitchcock film footage uncovered

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:40 AM PDT

Footage of what is believed to be Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving feature has been discovered in New Zealand.

Pop goes everything: Study hints at 'bubble universe'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:38 AM PDT

Researchers propose a means to test the idea that we inhabit an infinity of universes, each encapsulated in "bubbles" of space-time.

Harbhajan & Yuvraj out of series

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:08 AM PDT

India suffer a blow ahead of the third Test against England as Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh are ruled out of the series through injury.

Sportsday Live - Breaking news as it happens

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:57 PM PDT

Latest breaking football transfers, Joey Barton's Twitter row with Newcastle, plus more.

Injured Wariner will miss Worlds

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:32 AM PDT

The United States' former Olympic and world 400m champion Jeremy Wariner will miss this month's World Championships because of a foot injury.

Police suspend fraud probe chiefs

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:46 AM PDT

Cleveland Police's chief constable and his deputy are arrested and suspended in an investigation into allegations of fraud and corruption.

MRSA rates fall to record level

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT

MRSA rates in England have hit their lowest level since records began, official statistics show.

Package holiday company collapses

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Tour operator Holidays 4 UK enters administration, with about 12,000 UK holidaymakers abroad.

Murderer 'used notoriety to rob'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:39 AM PDT

The killer of headmaster Philip Lawrence used his notoriety to intimidate a man he robbed at a cash machine in north London, a court hears.

Ferry worker in 'propeller' death

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:53 AM PDT

A 19-year-old worker who died in a fall from the Woolwich Ferry in south-east London is believed to have been hit by the boat's propellers.

Murder accused mother 'not mad'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:31 AM PDT

The jury in the trial of a mother accused of murdering her two young children is told to avoid thinking her actions were simply "mad".

Exam result texts sent out early

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:06 AM PDT

Almost 30,000 pupils have received their exam results a day early by mistake, the Scottish Qualifications Authority confirms.

Scots holidaymaker drowns in pool

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:40 AM PDT

A 21-year-old man from Glasgow has drowned while on holiday on the Spanish island of Ibiza, the Foreign Office confirms.

Man faces gun, explosives charges

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT

A 68-year old man arrested in west Belfast on Tuesday has been charged with four terrorist offences including having firearms and ammunition with intent to endanger life.

Package holiday company collapses

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:29 AM PDT

About 2,000 people due to travel to Turkey from NI have their holiday plans ruined as a tour operator goes into administration.

Officers 'broke' Lynette witness

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:16 AM PDT

A man whose false evidence helped jail three innocent men for the murder of Lynette White claims police 'broke' him into changing his story.

Temporary closure for music venue

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:25 AM PDT

There are fresh doubts over the future of a live music venue in Cardiff which has closed for a second time.

Air shutdown 'could cost US $1bn'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:14 AM PDT

The US air authority, the FAA, is partially shut down as a new row in Congress sees the agency's funding cut off until lawmakers return in September.

Winfrey and Jones awarded Oscars

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:25 AM PDT

Chat show queen Oprah Winfrey and actor James Earl Jones are to receive honorary Oscars, it is announced.

France to send Noriega to Panama

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:15 AM PDT

France confirms it will extradite Manuel Noriega to Panama, where he is wanted over human rights violations during his rule in the 1980s.

Latin musicians sue over Grammys

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:20 AM PDT

Several Latin jazz musicians sue the organisers of the Grammy Awards over axing their genre as an award category.

South Africa agrees Swazi bailout

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:48 AM PDT

South Africa agrees a 2.4bn rand ($355m; £218m) loan to help Swaziland cope with a cash crisis but insists on economic and political reforms.

South Sudan rebels 'cease fire'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:30 AM PDT

The biggest and most active rebel movement in the newly independent South Sudan, the SSLA, declares a ceasefire, its spokesman says.

Elderly Russian chained like dog

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 11:05 AM PDT

A couple in southern Russia face charges after the wife's elderly father is found chained up in a yard like a dog.

Kurdish leaders charged in Turkey

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:22 AM PDT

Turkey charges more than one 100 Kurdish politicians for demanding better conditions for the imprisoned ex-PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Guards chief is Iran oil minister

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:53 AM PDT

Iran's parliament confirms a Revolutionary Guards commander, who is under international sanctions, as the country's new oil minister.

Saudi prince wins libel damages

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:54 AM PDT

Saudi Arabia's interior minister wins damages after an article in the Independent accuses him of ordering police to shoot and kill unarmed protesters.

BJP leader faces criminal probe

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 03:53 AM PDT

The governor of India's Karnataka state orders a criminal investigation against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in an alleged mining fraud.

Ten men beaten to death in India

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:49 PM PDT

Ten suspected thieves are beaten to death by a mob in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police say.

Japan parliament backs Tepco plan

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 03:48 AM PDT

Japan's parliament backs a plan to help Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) compensate victims of its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

'Racist' Ramadan adverts pulled

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:44 AM PDT

A Malaysian TV channel withdraws a series of messages aimed at influencing the behaviour of non-Muslims during Ramadan, after viewers complain.

Global markets continue to slide

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:21 AM PDT

US and European shares fall sharply after the release of more disappointing economic data from the US.

'Deep concern' over bond markets

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:22 AM PDT

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the bond markets' treatment of Spain and Italy is a "cause of deep concern".

Greek debt writedown hits SocGen

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:19 AM PDT

Profits at Societe Generale, France's second-biggest bank, fall after it writes down the value of its Greek assets.

Government drops website blocking

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:26 AM PDT

Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government.

Germans question tagging privacy

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:17 AM PDT

Facebook is being accused of violating German privacy laws with its facial recognition system.

Online photos can expose identity

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:10 AM PDT

Face recognition technology can be used to gain access to a person's private data, according to a new study.

New Larsson book 'does not exist'

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:55 PM PDT

Reports of a fourth novel from the writer of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are wide of the mark, his partner Eva Gabrielsson tells BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Morse set to return with prequel

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Inspector Morse is to return to TV screens in a one-off show about the detective's early career.

Earth may once have had two moons

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:05 AM PDT

A new theory suggests the Earth once had a small second moon that perished in a slow motion collision with its "big sister".

Early dog skull found in Siberia

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:46 AM PDT

A very well-preserved 33,000 year old canine skull from a cave in the Siberian Altai mountains shows some of the earliest evidence of dog domestication ever found.

Drought uncovers shuttle wreckage

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:23 AM PDT

Local police discover a tank from the ill-fated shuttle Columbia in a drought-stricken east Texas lake.

Salmonella superbug on the rise

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:24 AM PDT

A strain of Salmonella that is resistant to antibiotics has spread to England, Wales, France and Denmark, a study has found.

Eating disorders delay pregnancy

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Women with a history of eating disorders may struggle to fall pregnant quickly, research suggests.

Organ payments 'would save lives'

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:17 PM PDT

Hard-up students should be allowed to pay off their debts by selling a kidney, an academic argues in a medical journal.

Hosni Mubarak trial: 'Every Egyptian will tune in'

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:36 PM PDT

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to appear in court on Wednesday, charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters. BBC News website readers share their thoughts about this momentous event.

When suicide was illegal

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:04 AM PDT

Up until 50 years ago suicide was a crime in England and Wales. But why were people prosecuted for attempted "self-murder" and how did things change?

Can a photograph boost a book's sales?

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:09 AM PDT

A teenager emerged from court charged over alleged computer hacking, the book that he was carrying generated as much interest as the boy himself.

VIDEO: John Simpson on Mubarak court drama

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:39 AM PDT

It was "an unforgettable moment" when the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak entered court at the start of his trial in Cairo, the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson reports.

VIDEO: Return to tsunami-hit Japan

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:21 AM PDT

When Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami it was hard to imagine how people there would begin to rebuild their lives.

VIDEO: Australian freed from bomb drama

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:52 AM PDT

Bomb squad officers in Australia have safely freed a teenager who was trapped inside a Sydney home, amid reports she had an explosive device strapped to her body.

VIDEO: US intercepts 'cocaine submarine'

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:12 PM PDT

A semi-submersible carrying $180m (£110m) worth of cocaine has been intercepted by the US Coast Guard off the coast of Honduras.

VIDEO: Tanks 'advancing' on Syrian city

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 10:41 PM PDT

Government tanks in Syria have reportedly advanced deep into the besieged central city of Hama to put down opposition protests.

VIDEO: Nato sends more troops to Kosovo

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:08 PM PDT

Nato is sending hundreds of additional troops to Kosovo amid rising tensions over two crossings on its northern border with Serbia.

VIDEO: Portugal debates budget amid debt crisis

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:24 AM PDT

Portugal's parliament on Wednesday debates amendments to the budget for the current year, as the centre-right government fights to bring the deficit and debt under control.

VIDEO: Lithuania's mayor crushes car

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:07 AM PDT

The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, has been filmed using an armoured vehicle to crush a car parked in a cycle lane.

Shooting cowboys

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT

Photographer documents the fading American West

Day in pictures

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:59 AM PDT

A selection of striking images from around the world

Building boom

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:31 AM PDT

Smuggling drives Gaza's building boom

The real culprit?

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:24 AM PDT

Dire situation of Uighurs at root of Xinjiang conflict

The 'Aussie Taliban'

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT

Should David Hicks profit from his book?

In pictures

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 09:49 PM PDT

Camera traps reveal wildlife hotspot in northern Kenya

'King kustomizer'

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Meet the man who designed the 1960s Batmobile
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