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- Obama hails Awlaki death in Yemen
- Markets see big quarterly falls
- Canada drug site closure rejected
- Smart cities to get their own OS
- Blast kills 17 at Iraqi funeral
- Greece pushes for bailout tranche
- Putin more popular, says Medvedev
- Deadly fighting erupts in Syria
- Germany returns Namibian skulls
- Lawyer warns Knox will flee Italy
- Rap pioneer Sylvia Robinson dies
- Chinese launch set to US anthem
- Plastic 'flying carpet' takes off
- Tevez rules out Mancini apology
- Mersey money gap widening - Moyes
- England & Scotland set for battle
- Banned sheikh 'wrongly detained'
- Girl is missing as fire hits farm
- MP's wife guilty of kitten theft
- Dewani lodges extradition appeal
- Woman 'shot holding her baby son'
- Woman killed child 'as sacrifice'
- Jail for mother who drowned girl
- Council consults on 150 job cuts
- Police in Catholic schools move
- IRA murder unit 'was risk averse'
- Minister 'means business' on bags
- Virgin set to close call centres
- Florida schedules early primary
- US bank hit after debit fee news
- Rwanda genocide ministers jailed
- Deadly bomb blast in south Turkey
- European financial tax 'bad idea'
- Yemen leader refuses to step down
- Protests shut down Indian state
- Poverty line dare for India panel
- Burma U-turn on controversial dam
- NZ $10m bank error man arrested
- Credit agencies 'have failures'
- Sharp rise in eurozone inflation
- China tech stocks dive on Nasdaq
- IBM now second biggest tech firm
- Love to pen 'definitive' memoirs
- Murray 'concern at Jackson drugs'
- Prehistoric art was child's play
- Key US particle machine to shut
- Climate fix tech test put on hold
- 'Hollows' mark Mercury's surface
- Leek soil linked to E. coli cases
- Stem-cell breast ops warning
- Ex-MoD chiefs 'share cuts blame'
- Weekly bin rounds get £250m boost
- Playing the White House
- Kabul's postmen on streets with no names
- VIDEO: Doctor 'said he just gave Lorazepam'
- VIDEO: Man rescued after six days in ravine
- VIDEO: Damascus crowd 'afraid of army'
- VIDEO: Man drops daughter to catch ball
- VIDEO: Baby saved after mother shot dead
- VIDEO: HK ladies enter men's arena
- VIDEO: Struggling to deliver post in Kabul
- VIDEO: Impossible objects shown in Spain
- VIDEO: Trial of Michael Jackson's doctor
- Why Burma has halted its mega-dam
- Day in pictures
- Why are women finally designing women's clothes?
- Quiz of the week's news
- Knox appeal: Reviewing the evidence
- Is the internet rewriting history?
- Icelandic doubts about the euro
| Obama hails Awlaki death in Yemen Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT Barack Obama says the death in Yemen of the US-born key al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki is a "major blow" to the terror organisation. |
| Markets see big quarterly falls Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:14 PM PDT Shares in Europe and the US close lower, ending one of the worst three-month periods for the markets in the past decade. |
| Canada drug site closure rejected Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:15 AM PDT North America's only legal drug-injection site can stay open, Canada's Supreme Court rules, in a defeat for the country's conservative government. |
| Smart cities to get their own OS Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:23 AM PDT Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves as researchers develop an operating system for the urban world. |
| Blast kills 17 at Iraqi funeral Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:01 PM PDT At least 17 people die and many are wounded in a car-bomb attack at a funeral ceremony near the central Iraqi city of Hilla, officials say. |
| Greece pushes for bailout tranche Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:27 PM PDT Greek PM George Papandreou presses fellow EU leaders to approve an 8bn-euro tranche of bailout money Greece needs to avoid bankruptcy. |
| Putin more popular, says Medvedev Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:46 AM PDT Dmitry Medvedev says he decided not to run for a second term in office because Vladimir Putin is both more popular and more authoritative. |
| Deadly fighting erupts in Syria Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:34 AM PDT Heavy fighting breaks out in Syria's central Homs province between soldiers and opposition groups, as protesters take to the streets in several cities following Friday prayers. |
| Germany returns Namibian skulls Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:14 AM PDT A delegation of Namibian tribal leaders visits Berlin to collect the skulls of 20 compatriots which were taken to Germany during colonial times. |
| Lawyer warns Knox will flee Italy Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:24 AM PDT An Italian prosecutor warns the jury Amanda Knox will "run away abroad" if she is absolved of the 2007 murder of UK student Meredith Kercher. |
| Rap pioneer Sylvia Robinson dies Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:46 AM PDT Sylvia Robinson, who set up trail-blazing rap label Sugar Hill Records, dies at the age of 75. |
| Chinese launch set to US anthem Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:44 AM PDT China's state broadcaster uses an American patriotic song to accompany a video animation of Thursday's space launch. |
| Plastic 'flying carpet' takes off Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:56 PM PDT Researchers show off a "flying carpet" made of a conductive plastic wriggled by electric currents - an approach that could even find use on Mars missions. |
| Tevez rules out Mancini apology Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:33 AM PDT Carlos Tevez maintains he has nothing to apologise to Roberto Mancini about and believes his team-mates will back him in his dispute with the Manchester City manager. |
| Mersey money gap widening - Moyes Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:58 AM PDT Ahead of the Merseyside derby, Everton manager David Moyes highlights the financial divide between his club and Liverpool. |
| England & Scotland set for battle Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:14 PM PDT England manager Martin Johnson says his side will go all out for victory in their World Cup showdown with Scotland, while Andy Robinson calls on his side to "use every emotion" to secure victory. |
| Banned sheikh 'wrongly detained' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:07 AM PDT Pro-Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah is entitled to damages after a partial victory in a claim for wrongful detention, the High Court rules. |
| Girl is missing as fire hits farm Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:54 PM PDT A girl is missing and a baby and man are injured after a fire breaks out at a farm in West Yorkshire. |
| MP's wife guilty of kitten theft Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:51 AM PDT The wife of Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming is found guilty of burglary after taking a kitten from the home of her husband's lover. |
| Dewani lodges extradition appeal Posted: 30 Sep 2011 11:45 AM PDT Lawyers for Shrien Dewani, accused of ordering his wife's murder while on honeymoon in South Africa, are to appeal against his extradition. |
| Woman 'shot holding her baby son' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:45 AM PDT A teenager holding her 11-month-old son comes under fire from a shotgun as she talks to two friends in west London. |
| Woman killed child 'as sacrifice' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT A woman "sacrificed" her daughter to Allah to "exorcise evil spirits", the Old Bailey hears. |
| Jail for mother who drowned girl Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT A mother who drowned her daughter in the grounds of a city hospital has been jailed for five and a half years. |
| Council consults on 150 job cuts Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:25 AM PDT Aberdeen City Council begins consultations with staff and unions over 150 job cuts in 2012/13. |
| Police in Catholic schools move Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:20 AM PDT Catholic schools in Northern Ireland are to be offered visits by the police service in an attempt to overcome traditional barriers between them. |
| IRA murder unit 'was risk averse' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:44 AM PDT A former Army officer tells a tribunal the IRA could not have mounted an ambush in less than three hours of the type that killed two senior RUC officers in 1989. |
| Minister 'means business' on bags Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:35 AM PDT Environment Minister John Griffiths says the Welsh Government "means business" over the carrier bag levy, which is introduced on Saturday. |
| Virgin set to close call centres Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:49 AM PDT Virgin Media is to close its call centre in Liverpool, it announces. |
| Florida schedules early primary Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:35 PM PDT The pivotal US election swing state of Florida angers Republicans by scheduling its contest to pick the party's presidential nominee early. |
| US bank hit after debit fee news Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT Shares in Bank of America fall after it says it will start charging customers $5 (£3.20) per month for using their debit cards to make purchases. |
| Rwanda genocide ministers jailed Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:13 AM PDT The UN's Rwanda war crimes tribunal convicts two former ministers on genocide charges, but acquits two others on lack of evidence. |
| Deadly bomb blast in south Turkey Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT An explosion outside a Turkish military police building near the southern city of Antalya has left one person dead, officials say. |
| European financial tax 'bad idea' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:40 AM PDT A European financial transaction tax is unlikely to raise the sums of money projected, says the finance minister of Sweden, which abandoned its tax. |
| Yemen leader refuses to step down Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:48 PM PDT Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will not step down as promised if his opponents are allowed to stand in elections to succeed him. |
| Protests shut down Indian state Posted: 29 Sep 2011 09:44 PM PDT A strike in favour of a new state in the Telangana region of southern India's Andhra Pradesh state enters its 18th day. |
| Poverty line dare for India panel Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:22 AM PDT Indian activists dare the head of the country's planning commission to live on half a dollar a day to test his claim that it is an adequate sum for an Indian villager to survive. |
| Burma U-turn on controversial dam Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:16 AM PDT Burma's president halts work on a controversial, Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam which threatened to displace thousands of villagers on the Irrawaddy River. |
| NZ $10m bank error man arrested Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:02 AM PDT Hong Kong police arrest a man on the run from New Zealand where a bank mistakenly deposited millions of dollars into his account. |
| Credit agencies 'have failures' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:10 AM PDT The US Securities and Exchange Commission discovers "apparent failures" at 10 credit rating agencies. |
| Sharp rise in eurozone inflation Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:18 AM PDT The eurozone inflation rate increased sharply to 3% in September, up from 2.5% in August, according to official estimates. |
| China tech stocks dive on Nasdaq Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:19 PM PDT Chinese internet stocks dive in New York trading as the US Department of Justice considers launching a fraud investigation. |
| IBM now second biggest tech firm Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:23 AM PDT Microsoft has slipped to third place among top tech firms as veteran IBM's market value puts it in second place. |
| Love to pen 'definitive' memoirs Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT Singer and actress Courtney Love is to write a "no holds barred" memoir, "setting the record straight" about her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. |
| Murray 'concern at Jackson drugs' Posted: 29 Sep 2011 08:05 PM PDT Michael Jackson's doctor told the performer's bodyguard to pick up vials of medicine before phoning for help on the day he died, his trial hears. |
| Prehistoric art was child's play Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:43 PM PDT Prehistoric etchings found in a cave in France are the work of children as young as three years old, research suggests. |
| Key US particle machine to shut Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:03 AM PDT One of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for two decades, is about to shut down. |
| Climate fix tech test put on hold Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:26 PM PDT A pioneering UK test of a potential technical fix for global warming will be delayed for six months while scientists discuss the project with stakeholders. |
| 'Hollows' mark Mercury's surface Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:28 AM PDT Nasa's Messenger probe sees great swathes of shallow, rimless depressions on the surface of Mercury |
| Leek soil linked to E. coli cases Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:31 PM PDT Leeks and potatoes may have been the source of an E. coli outbreak in the UK earlier this year, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA). |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:46 PM PDT Senior plastic surgeons have issued a warning over a new breast enlargement procedure being offered by private UK clinics. |
| Ex-MoD chiefs 'share cuts blame' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:30 AM PDT The defence secretary says former military chiefs are partly to blame for £5bn budget cuts leading to redundancies, on the day navy job cuts are detailed. |
| Weekly bin rounds get £250m boost Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:09 AM PDT The government says it will make £250m available to help English councils keep or restore weekly bin collections. |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:14 PM PDT In the White House entertainment is not just fun - it's crucial for oiling the wheels of diplomacy. |
| Kabul's postmen on streets with no names Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:02 PM PDT Kabul has few formal street names, so just how does a postman deliver the mail? |
| VIDEO: Doctor 'said he just gave Lorazepam' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:19 PM PDT Richard Senneff, the first paramedic to reach Michael Jackson's bedroom on the night he died, tells a jury the information he received from the physician charged over the singer's death did not add up. |
| VIDEO: Man rescued after six days in ravine Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:53 AM PDT A 67-year-old man has been rescued from the bottom of a steep ravine in California after his children refused to give up searching for him. |
| VIDEO: Damascus crowd 'afraid of army' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:55 PM PDT As clashes intensify in Syria between security forces and anti-government protesters in and around the central town of Rastan, what is the mood on the streets of the capital, Damascus? |
| VIDEO: Man drops daughter to catch ball Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT A baseball fan in Taiwan dropped his daughter while trying to catch a foul ball. |
| VIDEO: Baby saved after mother shot dead Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:59 AM PDT Surgeons in Spain have saved the life of a baby boy after his mother, who was pregnant with him, was shot dead in a church in Madrid. |
| VIDEO: HK ladies enter men's arena Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:34 PM PDT Hong Kong professional women join popular men's fight club for charity event. |
| VIDEO: Struggling to deliver post in Kabul Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT The Afghan capital, Kabul, is a city with few street names, which causes major problems for postmen. |
| VIDEO: Impossible objects shown in Spain Posted: 30 Sep 2011 11:46 AM PDT An exhibition in Bilbao features a collection of impossible objects created by French artist Jacques Carelman. |
| VIDEO: Trial of Michael Jackson's doctor Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:54 AM PDT Dr Conrad Murray, 58, who is accused of giving pop star Michael Jackson a fatal overdose of sedatives, is on trial in California. |
| Why Burma has halted its mega-dam Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:10 AM PDT Why Burma halted its China-backed mega-dam |
| Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:44 PM PDT Striking images from around the world |
| Why are women finally designing women's clothes? Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:34 AM PDT Why did men dominate women's fashion? |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT Why has model Gisele been deemed too raunchy? |
| Knox appeal: Reviewing the evidence Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:29 PM PDT The evidence for and against Amanda Knox's murder conviction |
| Is the internet rewriting history? Posted: 29 Sep 2011 09:31 PM PDT Teaching the difference between truth and propaganda online |
| Icelandic doubts about the euro Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:07 PM PDT Euro dream losing its magic for people of Iceland |
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