Thursday, July 19, 2012

West 'appalled' by UN Syria veto

West 'appalled' by UN Syria veto


West 'appalled' by UN Syria veto

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Russia and China reject a UN resolution proposing sanctions on Syria, as President Assad appears in public for the first time after a Damascus bomb.

Bulgaria releases 'bomber' video

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT

Bulgaria releases CCTV footage of a man suspected of carrying out a deadly suicide bombing against a bus carrying Israeli tourists at Burgas airport.

Huge spam botnet is taken down

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:09 AM PDT

A huge botnet responsible for around 18% of the world's spam is forced offline, a security firm says.

Former Egyptian spy chief dies

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:04 AM PDT

Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former intelligence chief and a close ally of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, dies in hospital in the United States.

Mobile overtakes desktop in China

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:05 AM PDT

China's rural population flocks to the web as mobile becomes the most popular way to get online in the country, a report says.

Spain's borrowing costs increase

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:59 AM PDT

Debt-laden Spain raises 2.98bn euros (£2.3bn) on the financial markets, but is forced to pay higher interest rates.

Hopes fade after Zanzibar sinking

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Hopes are fading for more than 80 people still missing after a Tanzanian ferry sank near Zanzibar's main island, officials say.

Russian Muslim leaders attacked

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Two leading Muslim clerics, seen as moderates, are attacked separately in Russia's Tatarstan region, with one killed and the other injured.

Bin Hammam wins Fifa ban appeal

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:26 AM PDT

Former Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam says he wants to retire despite having his lifetime ban for bribery annulled.

Downton up for best drama Emmy

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT

ITV1's wartime drama Downton Abbey is up for the main prize at the 2012 Primetime Emmys, with competition from Homeland and Mad Men.

New inquiry into UN chief's death

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Lawyers will examine fresh evidence to establish the cause of a mysterious 1961 plane crash which killed then UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.

Dwarf 'kicks' first spiral galaxy

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:55 AM PDT

Astronomers are shocked to see a well-formed spiral galaxy in the early Universe, when conditions were thought to be too chaotic to allow their formation.

VIDEO: Get up close to shuttle Enterprise

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:53 AM PDT

Nasa's shuttle Enterprise has moved to a new home in New York, after the shuttle programme ended last year.

VIDEO: Arrests after car factory riot

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:52 AM PDT

At least 80 people have been arrested after violent clashes between workers and managers at a Maruti Suzuki factory near the Indian capital, Delhi.

VIDEO: Missing boy rescued from sewer

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:20 AM PDT

A three-year-old boy has been rescued after falling into a sewer shaft in Colombia.

VIDEO: Tanzania ferry sinks off Zanzibar

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:56 PM PDT

A ferry carrying at least 250 people has sunk off the coast of Tanzania near the island of Zanzibar.

VIDEO: Spelling error on Olympic tattoo

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:28 PM PDT

A woman who got a new tattoo to celebrate her role in the Olympic torch relay was shocked to discover it had been spelt incorrectly.

VIDEO: Meet China's booming middle class

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:03 AM PDT

China has become the driving force of the world's economy, creating a middle class now estimated at 300 million people.

VIDEO: America's fascination with the apocalypse

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:39 PM PDT

The BBC spoke to the co-author of The Last Myth to find out what a rise in apocalyptic thinking says about the US today.

Central banks to discuss Libor

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 11:42 PM PDT

Bank of England head Sir Mervyn King has proposed to central bank counterparts that they discuss alternatives to Libor at a meeting in September.

Nokia loss deepens to 1.4bn euros

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:03 AM PDT

Nokia posts losses of 1.41bn euros in the last three months as the Finnish mobile phone continues to lose market share to Samsung and Apple.

Sky high success for Raspberry Pi

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:16 AM PDT

A Raspberry Pi computer sends back pictures from an altitude of 40km thanks to a ballooning enthusiast.

Wales 'joins broadband fast lane'

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:45 AM PDT

First Minister Carwyn Jones hails a £425m deal - the biggest of its kind in the UK - to upgrade the broadband connection of almost all Wales' homes and businesses by 2015.

Looted art back in Afghan museum

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:10 AM PDT

The British Museum assists in the return of 843 artefacts to Afghanistan, almost 20 years after they were stolen or smuggled abroad.

Fans pay last respects to Khanna

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:51 AM PDT

Relatives and thousands of fans say farewell to India's "first superstar" Rajesh Khanna, who has been cremated a day after he died at the age of 69.

Iceberg breaks off from Greenland

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:35 AM PDT

An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken away from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland, scientists say.

Birds sniff out their relatives

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:02 PM PDT

Seabirds recognise their relatives from their scent and rely on their sense of smell to avoid "accidentally inbreeding", say scientists.

Polypill 'could save thousands'

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT

A "polypill" combining a statin with blood pressure drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes every year, according to UK researchers.

Germany faulted in suicide case

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:18 AM PDT

European Court judges rule against Germany in an assisted suicide case, saying a widower's rights were infringed.

Nadal withdraws from London 2012

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Defending Olympic champion Rafael Nadal pulls out of London 2012, saying he is "not in condition" to compete.

Gmail SMS launched for Africa

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:23 AM PDT

A text message-based version of Google's email service is launched in Africa.

India arrests after factory riot

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:12 AM PDT

At least 90 people are arrested after one person dies in violent clashes between workers and managers at a Maruti car plant near the Indian capital, Delhi.

German MPs to back circumcision

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:25 AM PDT

German lawmakers are expected to pass a motion to protect religious circumcision, after a court ruled it amounted to bodily harm.

Colombian police clash with tribe

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:30 PM PDT

More than 20 people are injured in Colombia as police drive tribesmen from the army post they were occupying.

'Suicide bomber' killed Israelis

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:40 AM PDT

The bombing of an Israeli tourist bus in eastern Bulgaria was probably carried out by a male suicide bomber with fake US documents, officials say.

Muslims allowed to use US mosque

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 10:02 AM PDT

A US judge rules that a Muslim congregation has the right to occupy their newly built mosque, overturning a lower court order.

PC cleared over Tomlinson death

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:24 AM PDT

A police officer who hit Ian Tomlinson with a baton and pushed him to the ground at the G20 protests in 2009 is found not guilty of manslaughter.

Union to strike on eve of Games

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 10:48 AM PDT

Thousands of Home Office workers, including Border Agency staff, are to stage a 24-hour strike on the eve of the Olympic Games, the PCS union says.

Eight men cleared of riot deaths

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:38 AM PDT

Eight men are found not guilty of the murder of three men during last summer's riots in Birmingham.

UK 'should consider easing cuts'

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT

The government should slow the pace of budget cuts next year if growth in the UK does not recover, the International Monetary Fund says.

Your pictures: Footwear

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Readers' pictures on the theme footwear

Kent's cultural Olympic secrets

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:16 PM PDT

A mobile art project travelling across Kent

In pictures: US drought

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:48 PM PDT

The most widespread drought since 1956

In Pictures: Charles and Camilla

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Charles and Camilla visit Jersey

In pictures: Olympic LomoWall at Museum of London

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:46 AM PDT

Analogue photos at the Museum of London

Do corporate mission statements make good rock songs?

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:03 AM PDT

Do corporate mission statements work as rock?

The eurozone's religious faultline

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:11 PM PDT

A religious faultline running through the eurozone

Greenland glacier: Is it serious?

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:18 AM PDT

Is city-sized iceberg in Greenland part of a wider trend?

US Gulf build-up 'signal to Iran'

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:43 AM PDT

Bolstering of US forces in Gulf sending a message to Iran

Aid groups warn of Yemen 'catastrophe'

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Yemen's hunger crisis at catastrophic levels, agencies warn

Day in pictures: 19 July 2012

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:20 AM PDT

24 hours of news photos from around the world

Can a Gabonese director cure the Albert Schweitzer hospital?

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:34 AM PDT

Gabon's famous Schweitzer hospital needs help to reach 100

Peru seeks place on world cultural map

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:55 AM PDT

How Peru is putting renewed focus on the arts

Libor losers turn to the courts

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:59 PM PDT

How litigation could be a bigger headache for the banks than fines

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