Friday, September 23, 2011

Abbas applies for UN recognition

Abbas applies for UN recognition

Abbas applies for UN recognition

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:28 AM PDT

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas presents the Palestinians' bid for statehood at the UN, to rapturous applause in the General Assembly.

IMF: Collective action needed now

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:59 AM PDT

IMF chief Christine Lagarde calls for countries to "act now and act together" to keep on the path to economic recovery.

Yemen's Saleh in surprise return

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:44 AM PDT

Yemen's President Saleh returns from Saudi Arabia three months after surviving an assassination attempt, calling for a truce amid fresh fighting.

Syrian woman 'dies in detention'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT

An 18-year-old whose brother opposed the regime of Syria's president is believed to be the first woman to die in custody in Syria, Amnesty says.

Pakistan warns US on Kabul charge

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar warns the US may lose Pakistan as an ally if it continues to publicly accuse Islamabad of backing militants.

Bolivian anti-drugs chief jailed

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:34 AM PDT

A US court jails the former chief of Bolivia's anti-narcotic police, Gen Rene Sanabria, for trafficking cocaine.

Accuser to confront Strauss-Kahn

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:07 AM PDT

The former head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is to appear face to face with a French writer who accuses him of trying to rape her in 2003.

IOC chief probes 2012 bribe claim

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:56 AM PDT

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge calls on the BBC to provide evidence into claims attempts have been made to fix boxing results at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Somalis returned to famine areas

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:47 AM PDT

Foreign aid workers are concerned about the fate of thousands of Somalis being taken back to famine-hit villages by Islamist militants.

Death 'by spontaneous combustion'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:30 AM PDT

A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled.

Satellite return expected later

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:59 AM PDT

US officials now say the fall to Earth of Nasa's six-tonne UARS satellite could occur early on Saturday (GMT).

Texas abolishes last meal request

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:07 AM PDT

The US state of Texas abolishes last meal requests for prisoners condemned to execution after an inmate orders a huge meal and refuses to eat it.

Plant bends to bury its own seeds

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:42 AM PDT

A new plant that bends down to deposit its seeds is discovered in the Atlantic forest, north-eastern Brazil.

Live - England v West Indies

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT

England are set 126 to win the first T20 international against West Indies at The Oval after Ravi Bopara's 4-10 sees the visitors collapse from 54-1.

Sportsday live - latest updates

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Sportsday Live - breaking sports news, featuring Rugby World Cup news and more.

Vettel leads Alonso in practice

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel heads Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in Friday practice at the Singapore Grand Prix with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton third.

Britons consider US hacking case

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:36 AM PDT

British victims of alleged phone hacking by the News of the World consider legal action in the US against parent company News Corporation.

Mother held as girl, four, dies

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:11 AM PDT

A mother is arrested on suspicion of the murder of her four-year-old daughter in Manchester.

Facebook baby hoax teacher banned

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:55 AM PDT

A teacher who stole Facebook baby pictures to make her ex-boyfriend think they had a baby is banned from teaching for two years.

Knox jury told to remember victim

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:07 AM PDT

Italian prosecutors urge a jury considering an appeal by two convicted murderers of British student Meredith Kercher to remember her family.

Ex admits schoolgirl stab attack

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:14 AM PDT

A man who repeatedly stabbed his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend on her way to school is ordered to serve 13 years in a young offenders institution.

Stranded fin whale dies in Humber

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:58 AM PDT

A fin whale which was stranded on mud in the Humber Estuary dies despite rescue attempts.

Gers 'recognise insolvency risk'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:07 AM PDT

A judge who froze £480,000 of Rangers assets says the club's new owner recognises it may go under if it loses a disputed £49m tax claim.

New CCTV image in Sharkey murders

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:46 AM PDT

Police investigating the murders of three family members in a deliberate house fire release a CCTV image of men they want to trace.

McGuinness 'is not appropriate'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:07 AM PDT

Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter says he does not believe Martin McGuinness is an appropriate person to be Ireland's next president.

Councillor fails in rape term bid

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:59 AM PDT

A former Ballymena councillor who was jailed for seven years for raping a "vulnerable" woman in her home has failed to have his sentence reduced.

Post-mortems for Gleision miners

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Post-mortem examinations are carried out on four miners who died in a Swansea Valley mine, as an appeal fund for their families reaches £150,000.

England riot charges questioned

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:21 AM PDT

A judge at Caernarfon questions the way offenders are being dealt with after last month's riots in England.

Fresh funding feud grips Congress

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:27 AM PDT

A US partial government shutdown looms amid the latest spending dispute to cripple Congress - over part of a federal funding bill covering disaster relief.

Romney named victor of TV debate

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:07 AM PDT

Mitt Romney is widely judged to have beaten Rick Perry in the latest Republican TV debate, as the two frontrunners again hogged the limelight.

Chavez chemotherapy 'a success'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:57 AM PDT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his fourth and final chemotherapy session for cancer was successful.

Paraguay battles foot-and-mouth

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:45 PM PDT

Paraguay slaughters 1,000 cattle to tackle an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has forced the suspension of beef exports.

Zambia's new president sworn in

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata is sworn in as president after beating incumbent Rupiah Banda in a tightly contested election.

Anti-Gaddafi fighters take Sabha

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:04 PM PDT

Forces loyal to Libya's new government take control of the strategic southern town of Sabha, which straddles the main road south to Niger.

Markets end flat after volatility

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:18 AM PDT

European shares end flat after a week of volatile trading as investors worry about the global economic outlook, despite reassurance from world leaders.

Turkey sends oil ship to Cyprus

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:59 AM PDT

Turkey sends an energy exploration ship to search for gas and oil in waters off the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus.

Iran leader makes new 9/11 claims

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:19 PM PDT

Iran's president says he does not believe the WTC towers could have been destroyed by aircraft alone, after lambasting Western nations at the UN.

'Luck' played part in Libya war

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:19 PM PDT

The overthrow of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was down to improvisation, innovation and good luck as well as military prowess, a report says.

Rabbani's funeral held in Kabul

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:38 AM PDT

Afghanistan's peace talks chief Burhanuddin Rabbani, killed by a suicide bomber, is buried in Kabul amid emotional scenes and tight security.

Tributes paid to 'Tiger' Pataudi

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Tributes are being paid to Indian cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi who died in the capital Delhi, aged 70, on Thursday.

Riot in China city over land sale

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT

Protests continue in a city in southern China over allegations that party officials sold off farmland, after two days of reported rioting.

Man held over China 'sex slaves'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:05 AM PDT

Police in central China arrest a man on suspicion of imprisoning and raping six women in a basement for two years and of killing two of them.

HP replaces its chief executive

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:44 AM PDT

Troubled computer giant Hewlett-Packard replaces its chief executive Leo Apotheker with former eBay head Meg Whitman.

Asia banks in move on currencies

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:26 PM PDT

South Korea and Indonesia's central banks step into the currency markets in a bid to stabilise their currencies and stem falls.

Via sues Apple in US over chips

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:48 AM PDT

Apple is facing legal action from Taiwanese chip designer Via over the way chips in many of its products manipulate data.

Facebook focuses on media sharing

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Facebook outlines plans to encourage users to share more of the media they consume, including music and movies.

Suspected LulzSec hacker arrested

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:36 AM PDT

The FBI claims to have arrested one of the key members of the notorious LulzSec hacking group in a raid in the US

X Factor beaten in US TV ratings

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:17 AM PDT

The first episode of X Factor USA draws in 12.1 million viewers but is beaten in the ratings by Modern Family.

Opera House unveils cinema season

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:33 AM PDT

London's Royal Opera House launches an ambitious programme of cinema screenings, including Madam Butterfly in 3D.

Photographer Robert Whitaker dies

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Photographer Robert Whitaker, best known for his images of The Beatles during the 1960s, dies at the age of 71.

Aquarius satellite comes of age

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:51 AM PDT

Nasa releases the first global map of ocean surface salinity acquired by the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite, which was launched in June.

'Robo legs' for stroke patients

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT

Scientists in the Netherlands are using robotic legs to try to improve the movement of stroke patients.

Questions over virus link to ME

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Scientists who linked Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as ME, to the XMRV virus have withdrawn some of their findings.

Libyan boy's London hospital op

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:54 AM PDT

A Libyan child injured in the fighting in his home country has been flown to a London hospital for medical treatment.

Scientists make virus discovery

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:05 PM PDT

Edinburgh and Cambridge scientists gain new knowledge into how viruses such as flu and HIV jump between species.

Has Western capitalism failed?

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:06 PM PDT

Twenty years ago, the fall of communism seemed to prove the triumph of capitalism. But was that an illusion?

Will China rescue the West?

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:21 AM PDT

Perhaps naively, Chinese business leaders feel insulated from the global stock-market rout and economic slowdown in the US amd Europe.

Can you dodge a falling satellite?

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Fragments of a satellite falling to Earth are expected to scatter and land on Friday. So is it possible to take evasive action?

VIDEO: Who will run for Russian president?

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:58 PM PDT

Russians are waiting for news of who will run for president next March - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin or President Dmitry Medvedev?

VIDEO: Kenya relocates elephants by truck

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT

Kenyan authorities begin moving up to 200 elephants to a new home, after habitat loss creates conflict with local communities.

VIDEO: Olympics: Allegations of boxing bribe

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT

Just 10 months before the 2012 Olympic Games open in London the BBC has learned of allegations of corruption at the heart of Olympic boxing, including a claim that Olympic gold medals have in effect been offered for sale.

VIDEO: US: 'Pakistan must break Haqqani links'

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Pakistan's foreign minister has warned that the US could lose Pakistan as an ally if it continues to publicly accuse Islamabad of supporting militants.

VIDEO: 'I don't know much about ballet'

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:17 PM PDT

Sir Paul McCartney, whose debut ballet score has premiered in New York, admits that he knows little about the art form.

VIDEO: Protesters clash with police in Chile

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:41 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out for the protest in Chile

VIDEO: 40,000 female fans - it's Odd Box

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:23 PM PDT

A sleeping politician, naked art and thousands of screaming female football fans. It's the week's weird and wonderful video news stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

VIDEO: Libyan artists celebrate freedom

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:48 PM PDT

Jon Leyne visited the Museum of the Crimes of the Dictator in Benghazi, one of the outlets for Libyan artists to express their new found freedom.

The SAS secret hidden since World War II

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

The British SAS war diary hidden from the world for 65 years

Light speed: Flying into fantasy

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:25 AM PDT

After Cern, is time travel now a real possibility?

Is it too early for Christmas shopping?

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:08 PM PDT

Isn't it too early to be Christmas shopping?

Day in pictures

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:46 AM PDT

Some eye-catching images from around the world

Death in the Age of Twitter

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:56 PM PDT

The execution of Troy Davis and the limits of social media

Quiz of the week's news

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT

RIP REM, but what was their original name?

Sir Paul admits to ballet nerves

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:07 PM PDT

Sir Paul McCartney speaks about his debut ballet score
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