Friday, April 20, 2012

Airliner crashes near Islamabad

Airliner crashes near Islamabad


Airliner crashes near Islamabad

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:57 AM PDT

A plane carrying up to 127 people crashes in a residential area near Islamabad international airport.

South Sudan 'to withdraw troops'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:15 AM PDT

South Sudan's leader orders the withdrawal of troops from Heglig oil field in Sudan, which his Sudanese counterpart says his forces have recaptured.

Breivik describes island massacre

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Anders Behring Breivik, who is on trial in Norway for killing 77 people last July, tells a Norwegian court he shot people who were begging for their lives.

Thousands at Bahrain F1 protest

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:21 AM PDT

Opposition supporters in Bahrain attend a mass protest demanding an end to the crackdown on dissent and the cancellation of Sunday's Grand Prix.

YouTube loses music court battle

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT

YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties after it loses a court battle in Germany over music videos.

Florida judge grants gunman bail

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:45 AM PDT

A judge sets bail at $150,000 for George Zimmerman, the man charged with murder over the death of unarmed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

China police 'knew UK man killed'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:24 AM PDT

Chongqing police knew UK man Neil Heywood had been murdered and a cover-up began immediately, a senior Chinese journalist tells the BBC.

Escaped bears kill women in Japan

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:52 AM PDT

Two women are killed after bears escape from their enclosures at a park in northern Japan - people are being told to stay indoors.

Racial bias saves death row man

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:14 AM PDT

Convicted US killer Marcus Robinson is ordered off death row after a judge determines that racial bias was evident during jury selection in his 1994 trial.

'Huge' water resource in Africa

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:48 AM PDT

Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.

France campaign into final hours

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:47 AM PDT

It is the last day of campaigning in one of France's most important elections in decades, with rival rallies being held at opposite ends of the country.

'Revenge porn' owner closes site

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:29 AM PDT

A site which published intimate pictures of men and women without their permission is closed by its owner and handed over to an anti-bullying group.

VIDEO: US emergency landing after bird strike

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:50 AM PDT

A Delta Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in New York after an apparent bird strike.

VIDEO: Lost boy finds mother using Google Earth

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:42 AM PDT

Saroo Brierley was only five years old when he got lost in 1986 but amazingly he has found his way home 25 years later, using Google Earth.

VIDEO: Murky background to Heywood's death

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:18 AM PDT

As China's communist party admit that Neil Heywood may have been murdered, there are still questions about whether the real reason for the British businessman's death will ever emerge.

VIDEO: Fresh appeal for missing US boy

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:24 AM PDT

Police in New York have launched a renewed search for a long-missing child, Etan Patz, who was six years old when he disappeared in 1979.

VIDEO: Huge fire at US oil storage depot

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:09 PM PDT

A huge fire has broken out at an oil company in the United States. Fire crews battled the flames at an oil depot in Springfield, Ohio.

VIDEO: Acid attacks increase in Pakistan

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:10 PM PDT

Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year.

UK offers £10bn loan to the IMF

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:31 AM PDT

Chancellor George Osborne offers just under £10bn in loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help economies in trouble.

EU condemns Repsol state seizure

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT

The European Parliament passes a resolution condemning a nationalisation that has strained relations between Spain and Argentina.

Unused e-waste spotted in China

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:56 AM PDT

A blogger has highlighted the issue of unused electronics waste in one of China's most polluted towns.

Mozilla phone on sale 'late 2012'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:48 AM PDT

Mobile phones running an operating system developed by makers of the Firefox web browser will go on sale in late 2012.

Studios lose landmark piracy suit

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:36 AM PDT

An Australian High Court ruling deals a blow to major film and television studios in a landmark case over illegal video downloads.

Leonard Cohen's ex-manager jailed

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:55 AM PDT

Leonard Cohen's former manager is jailed for 18 months for harassing the singer-songwriter.

Trick spots CO2 from fossil fuels

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Researchers prove a novel method of determining whether atmospheric CO2 was created by natural sources or by the burning of fossil fuels.

Sharp eye sees crippled Envisat

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:21 AM PDT

Europe's troubled flagship Earth observer, Envisat, is pictured by another spacecraft flying just underneath it.

Prince backs Bahrain Grand Prix

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:33 AM PDT

Bahrain crown prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa rules out cancelling the weekend's grand prix despite violent protests.

Rosberg heads Webber in practice

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:54 AM PDT

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg is fastest ahead of Mark Webber in the second practice session of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Persians 'did perish in tsunami'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:35 AM PDT

German geologists find evidence that a tsunami recorded by the ancient historian Herodotus did indeed save a Greek village from Persian invaders.

Hen lays healthy 'eggless' chick

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:08 AM PDT

A hen in Sri Lanka gives birth to a live chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of which came first.

Mali ex-leader flees to Senegal

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:35 AM PDT

Amadou Toumani Toure, ousted as Mali's leader in last month's coup, flees to Senegal, even though many of his allies are freed.

Burma leader in Japan to talk aid

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:41 AM PDT

Burmese President Thein Sein is in Japan for a visit expected to focus on financial aid and debt relief, as the EU prepares to suspend sanctions.

Berlusconi rejects sex orgy claim

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Ex-Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says alleged orgies at his home were "burlesque games", during his trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage girl.

Egypt crowds fill Tahrir Square

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:29 AM PDT

Tens of thousands of protesters cram into Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate against continuing military rule in Egypt.

Cruise firm sorry over castaways

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Princess Cruises says it is sorry that one of its ships sailed past an adrift fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean, leaving two of the men to die.

Government 'to block Qatada bail'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:56 AM PDT

Downing Street says the government will resist "vigorously" any application for bail by radical cleric Abu Qatada.

Evans jailed five years for rape

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Footballer Ched Evans is jailed for five years after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman, while another player, Clayton McDonald, is cleared.

Firefighters 'died for no reason'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:14 AM PDT

Four firefighters died after being sent into "an obviously dangerous situation" in a blazing warehouse for no good reason, a court hears.

Miliband: Stop Bahrain Grand Prix

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Labour leader Ed Miliband says the Grand Prix in Bahrain should not go ahead, amid continuing protests against the government.

Why is Nicolas Sarkozy so disliked?

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:40 PM PDT

Why French voters love to loathe their president

Quiz of the week's news

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:44 PM PDT

Kate and Pippa are on the influential list but who's not?

Pakistani women's lives destroyed by acid attacks

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:25 PM PDT

The Pakistani women destroyed by brutal acid attacks

Day in pictures: 20 April 2012

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:21 AM PDT

24 hours of news photos from around the world

A new China-India nuclear race?

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:47 AM PDT

What India's missile launch means for the region

Jewish life slowly returns to Poland

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:35 AM PDT

Poles embrace Jewish roots that Nazis tried to destroy

Are you a Luddite?

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:22 PM PDT

What does 'Luddite' really mean - and are you one?

The 'missile woman' behind India's new ICBM

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:14 AM PDT

The scientist behind India's new nuclear-capable ICBM

In pictures: Africa's exiled Olympians

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:56 PM PDT

Africa-born athletes competing under new flags in London

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