Thursday, November 3, 2011

Greece 'ready to drop' referendum

Greece 'ready to drop' referendum


Greece 'ready to drop' referendum

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:38 AM PDT

Greek PM George Papandreou says he is seeking consensus with the opposition on a eurozone bailout as an alternative to holding a referendum.

Tanks 'open fire' in Syrian city

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:38 AM PDT

Tanks mounted with machine-guns open fire in the Syrian city of Homs, killing at least 20 people, activists say.

Cricketers jailed for fixing scam

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:24 AM PDT

Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammed Asif and Mohammad Amir have been jailed over a spot fixing plot.

Cuba legalises private home sales

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:30 AM PDT

Cuba approves a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes privately for the first time in 50 years, official media say.

Record for S Africa rhino killing

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:01 AM PDT

The demand for rhino horns has led to record level of poaching this year in South Africa, wildlife charity WWF says.

Call for Berlusconi to step down

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:01 AM PDT

Six former Berlusconi loyalists in the Italian parliament urge the prime minister to resign as the government fails to agree urgent economic reforms.

Jordan-Egypt ferry struck by fire

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:12 AM PDT

More than 1,200 passengers are evacuated from a ferry that caught fire in the Red Sea, and one Jordanian reportedly dies after jumping overboard.

ECB cuts interest rates to 1.25%

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:22 AM PDT

The European Central Bank unexpectedly cuts eurozone interest rates to 1.25%, as new bank head Mario Draghi warns of weak growth.

Clashes erupt at Oakland protest

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:06 AM PDT

Riot police clash with demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street group at one of America's busiest ports, Oakland in California.

Nazi-looted Klimt fetches $40.4m

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:07 AM PDT

A 1915 Gustav Klimt landscape, looted by the Nazis and recently returned to a relative of the owner, sells for $40.4m (£25.4m) at a New York auction.

Google acts on 'paedophile' claim

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Internet search giant Google agrees to remove a review that defamed a businessman, 18 months after it was posted.

Q&A: Greek debt crisis

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:07 AM PDT

Why is Greece so reliant on international help to pay its bills?

The domino effect in Europe's debt crisis

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:17 AM PDT

Italy is the latest in a series of government debt downgrades. Which countries have fallen, and which are feared to be next?

Eurozone in crisis graphics - GDP

Posted: 12 May 2011 12:36 AM PDT

Compare the fortunes of eurozone economies

Europe's four big dilemmas

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:04 AM PDT

Europe's four big dilemmas

VIDEO: The US economy: A lost decade?

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:02 PM PDT

Watch: How the US went from boom to bust

VIDEO: How can countries go bust?

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:24 AM PDT

How can countries or governments go bust?

VIDEO: Why do banks go bust?

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:00 PM PDT

We've all become acutely aware in recent years how easily a big bank can reach the point of collapse. But why does it happen?

VIDEO: What is austerity?

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Greece provides a lesson in how raising taxes and cutting spending can be a painfully uphill, and even self-defeating, task.

VIDEO: Libya treasure stolen from museum

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Thousands of priceless Libyan artefacts have been stolen or damaged during the battle to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.

VIDEO: 'Spot-fixing' cricketers' families speak out

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:23 AM PDT

Three Pakistan cricketers have been jailed for their part in a "spot-fixing" scam following the verdict of a corruption trial in London.

VIDEO: Bin Laden tweeter looks back on raid

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:42 AM PDT

Pakistani Sohaib Ather reflects on his unexpected fame after he tweeted details of the US raid in which Osama Bin Laden was killed.

VIDEO: Inside a network of tunnels from WWI

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:07 AM PDT

Four miles of tunnels which were dug during WW1 in the Somme battlefield, are now being excavated by a team of British and French archaeologists.

VIDEO: New Bond film titled Skyfall

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:29 AM PDT

The latest 007 adventure, Skyfall, which will star Daniel Craig for the third time, is set to start shooting on Thursday.

VIDEO: Syria accepts Arab League peace plan

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:31 PM PDT

Syria has accepted a peace plan proposed by the Arab League to end more than seven months of violence, the League says.

VIDEO: Fossil study sheds new light on humans

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:49 PM PDT

Scientists have analysed a jawbone excavated from a prehistoric cave, showing humans were living in England as long as 44,000 years ago.

VIDEO: REM: Why we decided to split

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:07 PM PDT

REM lead singer Michael Stipe and bassist Mike Mills tell Newsnight's Gavin Esler why they took the decision to split up after 31 years.

Obama calls for urgent debt deal

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:15 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama warns that there is still work to be done on ending the eurozone financial crisis.

Stocks up on Greek state tumult

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:10 AM PDT

European stocks jump on hopes that a new Greek government will be formed in the latest twist to the eurozone debt crisis.

MPs urge action on mobile auction

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:40 AM PDT

A committee of MPs has told operators to stop delaying the 4G auction as it risks putting the UK at a disadvantage.

Newzbin defiant as block begins

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:37 AM PDT

BT is blocking access to Newzbin but the group behind the site say its members still have full access.

Latest Bond film called Skyfall

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:07 AM PDT

Details of the 23rd Bond film are announced in London, with leading ladies confirmed as French actress Berenice Marlohe and Naomie Harris.

Street role for US star Vaughn

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:35 AM PDT

Hollywood actor Robert Vaughn lands a role in Coronation Street, making him the first major US star to join the cast of the ITV1 soap, a spokesman says.

Major berg forming in Antarctica

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Scientists are monitoring a big rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica that will eventually calve an iceberg the size of Berlin.

Action urged on ships' emissions

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:51 PM PDT

Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping should be included in the UK's climate change budgets, the government's statutory advisers recommend.

Live - Thursday football

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PDT

Tottenham are at Rubin Kazan and Stoke face Maccabi Tel-Aviv before Birmingham host Brugge, Celtic play Rennes and Fulham take on Wisla Krakow on a busy night of Europa League football.

ICC says corruption not rampant

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:51 AM PDT

Cricket's anti-corruption chief Sir Ronnie Flanagan insists illegal betting is not endemic in the game, in the wake of three Pakistan players being jailed for spot-fixing.

Rwanda returns smuggled minerals

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:12 AM PDT

About 82 tonnes of smuggled minerals seized by Rwandan police is handed back to DR Congo in a sign of improved relations between the two neighbours.

'Suicide attack' hits Afghan city

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:56 AM PDT

Militants carry out a deadly attack on a private construction company in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, officials say.

Remains are 'earliest Europeans'

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 02:56 PM PDT

Two ancient teeth and a jaw fragment unearthed in Italy and the UK are found to be the earliest remains of modern humans in Europe.

Viktor Bout guilty of arms deal

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 01:39 PM PDT

A former Soviet military officer is convicted in a New York court of attempting to sell heavy weapons to a Colombian rebel group.

Israeli troops 'kill two in Gaza'

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:50 AM PDT

Israeli security forces have killed two people in a clash on the border of the Gaza Strip, local medics say.

Third woman accuses Herman Cain

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:27 AM PDT

A third woman reportedly accuses leading Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.

Unison votes for pension strike

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:04 AM PDT

Members of the Unison trade union have voted in favour of striking against the government's plans to change public service pension schemes.

UK soldier killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:02 AM PDT

A British soldier has been shot dead in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has announced.

'Moments of madness led to riots'

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Young people joined the summer riots in a "moment of madness" on "a day like no other when normal rules did not seem to apply", a report suggests.

Arrests over racist Ameobi tweet

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:56 AM PDT

Two boys are arrested after Newcastle United footballer Sammy Ameobi was the target of racist abuse on Twitter.

What's happened to Thalidomide babies?

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Thalidomide victims search for truth, 50 years on

VIDEO: A WWII vet's front line sketches

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:46 PM PDT

A World War II veteran's hand-drawn memoir

Day in pictures: 3 November 2011

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:51 AM PDT

24 hours of pictures from around the world

Can China control social media revolution?

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:10 PM PDT

How micro-blog explosion is transforming China

Sebastiao Salgado's Genesis project

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:10 PM PDT

Sebastiao Salgado's Amazon photographs on show in London

Is President Obama a good leader?

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:20 PM PDT

Mark Mardell on doubts over President Obama's decisiveness

China suffers amid euro slump

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:45 PM PDT

Tough times at the Great Mall of China

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