Friday, March 23, 2012

EU approves pirate base attacks

EU approves pirate base attacks

EU approves pirate base attacks

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:02 AM PDT

The European Union expands its mission against Somali pirates, by allowing military forces to attack land targets as well as those at sea.

Obama's sorrow for shot teenager

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:28 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama says if he had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager shot dead by a neighbourhood watchman.

Breivik spurs health law revision

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Norway plans new mental health laws to cater for mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's detention, as his trial looms.

Surprise US World Bank candidate

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:43 AM PDT

President Obama nominates Korean-born US academic Jim Yong Kim as his surprise candidate to be the next president of the World Bank.

PM defends Toulouse murders probe

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:20 AM PDT

French PM Francois Fillon says there were no grounds for arresting Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah before he shot dead seven people.

China to end prison organ donors

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:28 AM PDT

China pledges to end the widespread practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within the next five years, state media report.

EU slaps sanctions on Assad wife

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:40 AM PDT

The EU imposes a travel ban and an asset freeze on Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of Syrian leader Bashar, and other family members.

Japan prepares missile defences

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:12 AM PDT

Japan orders missile defence systems to be prepared in response to the planned launch of a North Korean long-range rocket next month.

Pope condemns Mexico's drug wars

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:11 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI denounces the "evil" of drug-related violence in Mexico, as he embarks on his trip there.

S Lanka minister in media threat

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:24 AM PDT

A Sri Lankan cabinet minister threatens violence against journalists and human rights activists who he says have been opposing the government.

Ex Russian banker shot in London

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:18 AM PDT

Former Russian banker German Gorbuntsov is in a critical condition after being shot several times by a man armed with a sub-machine gun in east London.

Borat tune stuns Kazakh medallist

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:19 AM PDT

A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.

VIDEO: Obama: Trayvon death 'a tragedy'

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:37 AM PDT

As an investigation gets under way into the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, the US President was asked to comment on the case.

VIDEO: Digital Magician reveals his tricks

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:38 PM PDT

Cyber-illusionist Marco Tempest explains how he fuses magic and technology to create beguiling visual displays.

VIDEO: Hundreds wrongly told of lottery win

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:04 AM PDT

Three hundred people in Denmark were wrongly told they had won three billion euros in their country's national lottery.

VIDEO: Europe's giant space freighter lifts off

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 10:54 PM PDT

Europe's giant space freighter, which is delivering supplies to the International Space Station, lifts off from French Guiana.

VIDEO: US army helicopter spins out of control

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 03:48 PM PDT

Video footage has been released of a US Apache helicopter which went out of control and crashed into a mountain in Afghanistan in February.

VIDEO: Haiti's former soldiers ordered from barracks

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:43 AM PDT

Against the wishes of the Haitian government, a group of former soldiers and new recruits have taken over an old military base in Port-au-Prince in the hopes of reviving their disbanded army.

VIDEO: Panda poo tea anyone? It's Odd Box

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 04:14 PM PDT

The world's longest wedding dress train, President Obama look-a-likes and panda poo tea.

India boycotts EU carbon charge

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:30 AM PDT

Indian airlines will not comply with the European Union's (EU) carbon charging scheme, according to civil aviation minister Ajit Singh.

Credit Suisse halves pay for boss

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:19 AM PDT

Credit Suisse says it cut the total compensation for its chief executive, Brady Dougan, by 55% in 2011 after the bank's profit slumped.

Cashing in on online Ponzi scams

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT

Investors are using web-based tracker tools to put their money into online scams in the hope of cashing out before the schemes collapse, research suggests.

Spies 'penetrate' US army network

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:06 AM PDT

Foreign spies have comprehensively penetrated the computer networks of the US government, American politicians have been told.

Mozart piece uncovered in Austria

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:39 AM PDT

A previously unknown piano composition by Mozart, believed to have been written when he was as young as 10, is uncovered in Austria.

Houston drowned after cocaine use

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 03:49 PM PDT

Whitney Houston's death was caused by accidental drowning, but her chronic use of cocaine was also a factor, a coroner rules.

Giant asteroid 'resembles planet'

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:15 AM PDT

The giant asteroid Vesta has many features that are usually associated with rocky planets like Earth, according to data from a Nasa probe.

Inbreeding did not kill mammoths

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:44 AM PDT

The last known population of woolly mammoths did not "inevitably" die out because of inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity, a study suggests.

Extra smoking help 'doesn't work'

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 07:04 PM PDT

Offering free nicotine patches or intensive counselling to smokers calling the English NHS helpline does not help them quit, a study in the BMJ says.

Minimum price for alcohol planned

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:15 AM PDT

The government proposes a minimum price of about 40p per unit of alcohol in England and Wales - but is warned it could face a legal challenge.

Ferguson dismisses Man City jibe

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:02 AM PDT

Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson laughs off criticism from Man City over his decision to bring Paul Scholes out of retirement.

McDowell surges up US leaderboard

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:08 AM PDT

Graeme McDowell shares the lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida after a superb nine under round of 63.

YouTube 'birdman' explains hoax

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT

A Dutch film-maker man who posted a video of himself apparently conducting a successful test flight of a "wing-suit" he had invented, explains his hoax.

Lucky cat survives 19-storey fall

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 09:39 AM PDT

A cat from Boston, Massachusetts fell from a window 19 storeys high and amazingly survived with just bruises.

Mali coup leader promises polls

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:06 AM PDT

The leader of this week's coup in Mali, Capt Amadou Sanogo, tells the BBC he has no intention of staying in power, but the former leaders will face justice.

Indian waits 68 years for award

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:11 AM PDT

Dinanath Malhotra, owner of the popular Indian publishing house Hind Pocket Books, receives his university award - six decades after winning it - because of partition.

Party moves to expel Bertie Ahern

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 03:46 PM PDT

Irish political party Fianna Fail says it will seek to expel former leader and prime minister Bertie Ahern in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal.

Egypt helps ease Gaza oil crisis

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:57 AM PDT

Egypt starts supplying fuel to the Gaza Strip today to help ease the territory's worst fuel crisis in years.

US soldier to face murder charges

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:23 AM PDT

The US soldier suspected of killing Afghan civilians, Robert Bales, is to be charged with 17 counts of murder, US officials tell the BBC.

Petrol price reaches record high

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:13 AM PDT

The average price of unleaded petrol reaches a new high of 140.20p per litre, according to industry analysts Experian Catalist.

Bed-bound man guilty of murders

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT

A man who appeared at a murder trial at the Old Bailey in a hospital bed is found guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her mother.

Submarine death officer honoured

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:30 AM PDT

A posthumous George Medal is awarded to a Royal Navy officer who was shot dead on board a nuclear submarine as it was docked in Southampton.

TV star's son on car death charge

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:12 AM PDT

The 27-year-old son of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty appears in court accused of causing death by dangerous driving.

Week in pictures: 17-23 March 2012

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:37 AM PDT

News photos from around the world

In pictures: Childhood tuberculosis in Lima

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:57 AM PDT

Young people fighting tuberculosis in Peru

The chia craze

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:52 PM PDT

The seeds set to be the next superfood craze

The Spanish link in cracking the Enigma code

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:53 AM PDT

The missing link in the history of wartime codebreaking

Taliban's brisk trade of kidnapping in Karachi

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:23 AM PDT

Taliban's Karachi kidnappings on the rise

Mexico church divided over drug wars

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:55 AM PDT

Benedict XVI will find Church divided over drug wars

Day in pictures: 23 March 2012

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:32 AM PDT

24 hours of news photos from around the world

Quiz of the week's news

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:55 PM PDT

Dame Edna is taking a final bow - what was her husband's name?

Battles over Libya's dangerous migrant smuggling routes

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:54 AM PDT

Will a desert wall of wrecked cars stop Libya's migrant trafficking?

Syrian divisions reflected closely in Lebanon

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:33 PM PDT

Syrian religious divisions reflected closely in Lebanon

Are thin women the enemy?

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:52 PM PDT

Why are slender women coming under attack?
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