Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Stocks up on eurozone rescue hope

Stocks up on eurozone rescue hope


Stocks up on eurozone rescue hope

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:06 AM PDT

Global shares rise on hopes eurozone leaders and the International Monetary Fund will agree a package to solve the eurozone debt crisis.

Michael Jackson's doctor on trial

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Michael Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray, goes on trial in Los Angeles, charged with involuntary manslaughter of the singer.

Saudi woman driver to be lashed

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:19 AM PDT

A Saudi woman is sentenced to 10 lashes for breaking the country's ban on female drivers.

Children dead in Afghan bus blast

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT

At least 16 people, including 11 children, are killed when a bus hits a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, local officials say.

World famous bear believed killed

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:19 AM PDT

A wild bear whose birth was shown live around the world on the internet is believed to have been shot and killed by a hunter in Minnesota, US.

Heavy fighting in Gaddafi bastion

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:50 AM PDT

Heavy fighting continues in the Libyan city of Sirte, where anti-Gaddafi troops are facing strong resistance from loyalists.

Powerful typhoon hits Philippines

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:40 AM PDT

A powerful typhoon strikes the Philippines, triggering floods and power cuts, with at least 16 people - including children - reported dead.

Tanks storm restive Syrian town

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Syrian troops firing machine-guns and backed by tanks are reported to have stormed the restive central town of Rastan following a two-day siege.

Israel allows settler expansion

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:03 AM PDT

Israel approves the construction of 1,100 homes in the Jewish settlement of Gilo, days after Palestinian leaders called for full UN membership.

Tymoshenko prosecutors seek jail

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:07 AM PDT

Prosecutors ask for Ukrainian ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko to be jailed for seven years over a gas deal with Russia, at a trial which alarms the West.

Android 'most popular' purchase

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:01 AM PDT

Smartphones running Google's Android software are the most popular among those buying new handsets, suggest figures.

Coffee 'may prevent depression'

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to experience depression, researchers have discovered.

'Smart' window to save energy

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:18 AM PDT

Scientists design an improved "smart" window able to change from summer to winter mode.

Russia stops buying Kalashnikovs

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:53 AM PDT

The Russian army says it is halting orders of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle until a newer model is developed by its manufacturer.

Live - Tuesday football

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:34 AM PDT

Man City travel to Bayern Munich and Man Utd host Basel in the Champions League, while there is a full programme in the Championship and Rangers play Kilmarnock in the SPL.

Meaker gets first England call-up

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT

Fast bowler Stuart Meaker has been given his first England call-up, while Kevin Pietersen returns to the squad to face India.

Cooley named interim Aussie coach

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:31 PM PDT

Former England bowling coach Troy Cooley is named as Australia's interim head coach for their tour of South Africa.

Miliband's 'new bargain' for UK

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Ed Miliband vows to build a new society in which "reward is linked to effort" - and tells Labour's annual conference: "I am my own man".

Rescue teams reach trapped miners

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT

A miner is rescued following a roof fall in a North Yorkshire pit while search teams continue to free a second.

Dad's Army co-writer Croft dies

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:06 AM PDT

David Croft, co-writer and producer of classic comedies including 'Allo 'Allo and Hi-de-Hi dies at the age of 89, his family announces.

Suicide verdict over Moat death

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:59 AM PDT

Inquest jurors return a verdict of suicide in the death of gunman Raoul Moat, who shot himself in the head after a six-hour stand-off with police.

M&S fined £1m over asbestos risk

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:49 AM PDT

Marks & Spencer is fined £1m for failing to protect staff and customers from possible exposure to asbestos while refurbishing stores in Reading and Bournemouth.

BAE confirms loss of 3,000 posts

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:44 AM PDT

BAE Systems confirms that it is cutting almost 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military aircraft division.

Compensation for crash relatives

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:44 AM PDT

Compensation of about £15m has been paid out to relatives of the men who died in a helicopter crash in the North Sea.

Uni's future 'dealt with by fax'

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:34 AM PDT

An academic expert accuses the Scottish government of conducting a university merger "by fax".

Killing 'to save wife's dignity'

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:37 AM PDT

A coroner says that an Enniskillen man who killed his wife in 2009 wanted to preserve her dignity at the end of a "devastating illness".

Murder victim 'lovely' - accused

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:28 AM PDT

The woman accused of murdering Newry pensioner Maire Rankin says the pensioner was a "lovely, lovely lady".

Labour: Judge us on our record

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Carwyn Jones says he will give people the information they need to judge whether the Welsh Government is performing, as he outlines his "road map" for the next five years.

Teen murder 'mistaken identity'

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT

A teenager was stabbed to death in his home after two knifemen showed "staggering incompetence" by choosing the wrong victim, a court is told.

Washington Monument gets survey

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Engineers abseil from the top of the Washington Monument for a closer inspection of damage from last month's earthquake.

Senate deal prevents US shutdown

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:36 PM PDT

The US Senate approves a budget bill, amid a dispute over disaster relief that threatened a partial government shutdown.

Bolivia halts work on Amazon road

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:31 AM PDT

Bolivian President Evo Morales suspends work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid furore over forced used against opponents to the project.

Drug lord's wife has twins in US

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:54 AM PDT

The wife of Mexico's most wanted drug baron, Joaquin Guzman, gives birth to twin girls at a US hospital.

Lethal end to Guinea poll protest

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:45 AM PDT

At least three protesters die in the Guinean capital, Conakry, when security forces break up an opposition demonstration, amid fears of electoral fraud.

Somalia AU mission to be boosted

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:20 AM PDT

African Union commanders holding the Somali capital Mogadishu are promised fresh forces from Djibouti and Sierra Leone.

Papandreou calls for German help

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou delivers an impassioned plea to German business leaders to help his country out of its debt crisis.

Clash erupts near Kosovan border

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:25 AM PDT

Several people are injured in a clash between ethnic Serbs and Nato peacekeepers in the north of Kosovo.

Yemeni minister 'survives attack'

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:21 AM PDT

Yemen Defence Minister Mohamed Nasser Ali survives an attack on his convoy in the southern city of Aden, officials say.

Egypt polls to start in November

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Egypt's ruling military council sets 28 November as the state date for the first elections since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted, state media reports.

Pledge to DNA test Kashmir bodies

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:13 AM PDT

The chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, promises DNA tests on thousands of bodies discovered in some 40 mass graves.

India imposes text message limit

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:53 PM PDT

The telecoms regulator in India limits the number of text messages which can be sent from a mobile phone to 100 a day in a bid to deter tele-marketers.

Australia lifts female combat ban

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:10 AM PDT

Australia lifts all restrictions on the roles that women can carry out in its armed forces, including serving in special forces and front-line combat units.

Shanghai train crash injures 200

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:50 AM PDT

A Shanghai subway train has hit the rear end of another train, injuring at least 200 passengers, train company officials say.

Putin names new finance minister

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:32 AM PDT

Russian PM Vladimir Putin names Anton Siluanov as Russia's acting finance minister after Alexei Kudrin's dramatic departure from government.

IPad 'gains 80% of tablet market'

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:00 AM PDT

Apple's iPad captured 80% of the tablet computer market in the US and Canada in April to July, a report says.

Japan may help Greek debt bailout

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:53 PM PDT

Japan's finance minister says it may consider being part of a global plan to help bail out Greece from its ongoing debt crisis.

Three pleads for spectrum share

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:16 AM PDT

Three warns it could run out of capacity in urban areas if 4G auctions do not go ahead next year.

Europe broadband put to the test

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:56 AM PDT

The performance of net firms across Europe will be scrutnised in a major new broadband project.

Sheen settles over sitcom sacking

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:10 AM PDT

Actor Charlie Sheen settles a legal dispute with the makers of US TV sitcom Two and a Half Men over being fired from the show.

Cinema goers call 3D a 'gimmick'

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:33 AM PDT

British cinema goers say 3D is a "gimmick" and makes little difference to the quality of a movie, according to a new poll.

Asterix creator retires aged 84

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:13 AM PDT

Asterix creator Albert Uderzo is handing over the reins to a younger artist after 52 years drawing the famous comic book hero.

Fluorescent bacteria keep secrets

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:52 AM PDT

Scientists have developed fluorescent bacteria to display secret messages, creating a living invisible ink.

Frog killer immune genes revealed

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:54 PM PDT

Scientists take a big step toward understanding why some frogs are able to survive the fungal disease chytridiomycosis while others quickly die.

Drug 'aids albino people's sight'

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

A drug which is already licensed for use could be used to treat sight problems in some albino people, say US researchers.

Philippines typhoon Nesat: Your stories

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:41 AM PDT

BBC News website readers share their experiences of the typhoon in the Philippines.

VIDEO: ID technology marks anonymity end

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:27 PM PDT

New advances in facial recognition technology could mark the end of anonymity in public spaces and help usher in a new age of law enforcement in the US.

VIDEO: Afghan comedy targets politicians

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:34 AM PDT

Stand-up comedy is drawing large audiences in Afghanistan as television channels push the boundaries with political satire.

VIDEO: Australia lifts combat ban for women

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:50 AM PDT

Australia has lifted all restrictions on the roles that women can carry out in its armed forces

VIDEO: Libya fighters enter Gaddafi city

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 03:40 PM PDT

Anti-Gaddafi fighters have breached the former Libyan leader's hometown of Sirte, one of the last remaining loyalist strongholds.

VIDEO: Man who devotes life to defusing mines

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:08 PM PDT

Hushyar Ali has devoted his life to defusing thousands of explosives in his home region of Halabja in Iraq.

VIDEO: Fears for Filipino shanty towns

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:47 AM PDT

Typhoon Nesat is the largest storm to hit the Philippines this year and has forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.

VIDEO: Boeing delivers first 787 Dreamliner

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 02:42 PM PDT

US planemaker Boeing has officially delivered its first 787 Dreamliner to Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA), after three years of delays.

VIDEO: Hundreds injured in China train crash

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:56 AM PDT

More than 200 people have been injured after two subway trains collided in central Shanghai, according to Chinese state media.

VIDEO: India flooding 'affects millions'

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:18 PM PDT

More than two million people have been affected by floods in India as torrential rains lash Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states.

Has the iPod made us anti-social?

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:52 AM PDT

Has the iPod turned us all into anti-social people?

In pictures: Philippines lashed by Typhoon Nesat

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:10 AM PDT

Typhoon Nesat wreaks havoc in the Philippines

Growing up in Mao's China

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:03 AM PDT

How Mao shaped my teenage years

Day in pictures: 27 September 2011

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:49 AM PDT

Eye-catching images from around the world

Libya conflict: Smoke and explosions mark Sirte battle

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 03:05 PM PDT

On the Sirte front line with anti-Gaddafi fighters

India's call centre growth stalls

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Do people have a problem with Indian accents?

Country music and economic woes

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:53 PM PDT

Economic woes make for more sad tunes

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