Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Justice call after Claudy report

Justice call after Claudy report


Justice call after Claudy report

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:52 AM PDT

A victim's relative says justice must be served for the nine people killed in the 1972 Claudy bombings after a report finds a priest's suspected role was covered up.

GCSE pupils score record results

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:53 AM PDT

Teenagers score another record year for GCSEs with almost seven out of 10 entries being awarded a C grade or above.

Samantha Cameron has fourth child

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:38 AM PDT

David and Samantha Cameron announce the birth of their fourth child, a girl, who arrived earlier than expected during a family holiday to Cornwall.

Manila police admit siege bungle

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Philippine police admit incompetence in their handling of Monday's bus hijacking in which eight Hong Kong tourists were shot dead.

Moldova seizes smuggled uranium

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:28 AM PDT

Moldovan police have seized 1.8kg of uranium-238 in the capital, Chisinau, interior ministry officials say.

Plane crashes in north-east China

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Forty-eight people have been rescued after a passenger plane crashes in north-eastern China with at least 91 people on board, state media report.

Mother faces triple murder charge

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:21 AM PDT

A mother faces charges of murdering her three children, before a sheriff at a special court hearing in hospital.

Rugby lip slice doctor 'ashamed'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:24 AM PDT

A doctor says she is "very ashamed" that she cut the lip of rugby player to help him pretend he was injured during a match.

Michael admits drug-driving

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:52 AM PDT

Singer George Michael is warned he could be jailed after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of drugs and possessing cannabis.

Pakistan disease threat 'serious'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Pakistan is in danger from epidemic diseases, PM Yousuf Raza Gilani warns, as 17 million people struggle to cope with flood devastation.

Probe as woman dumps cat in bin

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:29 AM PDT

A cat owner in Coventry is shocked to find CCTV footage of a woman putting his pet into a bin and walking away.

Movie buff who held world record dies at 65

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:24 PM PDT

A movie enthusiast who held a Guinness World Record for the number of films he had watched dies at the age of 65.

Contenders shortlisted for Fringe publicity stunt prize

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Three contenders are shortlisted for the best publicity stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe.

West Ham sell Diamanti to Brescia

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:42 AM PDT

Striker Alessandro Diamanti joins Serie A newcomers Brescia after one season at Upton Park.

Barca told to up Mascherano offer

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:44 AM PDT

Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson says Barcelona must increase their bid for midfielder Javier Mascherano, who was omitted from the team beaten 3-0 by Manchester City.

England are still superior - Finn

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:21 AM PDT

Seamer Steven Finn says that England still believe they have the upper hand on Pakistan despite the tourists' victory in the third Test at The Oval.

Leics chairman refuses to resign

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:29 AM PDT

Leicestershire chairman Neil Davidson says he will not quit despite Matthew Hoggard and Tim Boon calling for him to resign.

Malik left out of one-day squad

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:49 AM PDT

Pakistan drop former captain Shoaib Malik for September's Twenty20 and one-day internationals against England.

Lab man jailed for drugging pupil

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:59 AM PDT

A school technician who used potentially deadly chloroform to knock a pupil unconscious is jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Crash man 'was driving starship'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:26 AM PDT

A "psychotic" driver being pursued by police thought he was driving the Starship Enterprise when he crashed into the back of a car at 60mph killing the married couple inside, a court hears.

Five RBS camp activists in court

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:48 AM PDT

Five climate change activists appear in Edinburgh Sheriff Court following the protests against the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Cancer risk 'not higher at plant'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:03 AM PDT

Workers at a Scottish semiconductor plant are not at increased risk of developing occupational cancers, new research suggests.

Man's 'sudden death' investigated

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:02 AM PDT

Two people are arrested over what police are describing as the sudden death of a 32-year-old man in Lisburn.

Pipe bomb found at police station

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:27 AM PDT

An unexploded pipe bomb has been found in the grounds of Woodbourne police station in west Belfast.

Mother and son hit by tree at zoo

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:16 AM PDT

A mother and her four-year-old son are injured and flown to hospital by air ambulance after a tree fell on them in a wildlife park.

Wales behind in best GCSE results

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:14 AM PDT

Wales falls further behind most of the UK for the highest grades at GCSE, despite picking up its best results.

Somali MPs killed in hotel raid

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:51 AM PDT

Islamist gunmen storm a hotel near Somalia's presidential palace and kill at least 32 people, including six MPs in a suicide attack.

South Sudan plans mass return

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:46 AM PDT

South Sudan's government prepares to repatriate some 1.5 million people from the north and Egypt ahead of the 2011 referendum on independence.

Talks held over Kyrgyz deployment

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:07 AM PDT

The head of an international police mission due to deploy in violence-hit southern Kyrgyzstan holds talks in Bishkek, amid mounting opposition to the move.

Carter 'set for North Korea trip'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:22 AM PDT

Former US President Jimmy Carter may be heading to North Korea to negotiate the release of a US man jailed there, according to US media reports.

Claudy bomb conspiracy revealed

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:46 AM PDT

The police, the Catholic Church and the government conspired to cover up a priest's suspected role in one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles, an investigation has found.

Swiss death penalty drive begins

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:48 AM PDT

Swiss death penalty campaigners can begin collecting signatures to force a referendum on its return, the government says.

Trapped Chile miners get supplies

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:18 AM PDT

Rescue workers in Chile send supplies to 33 miners trapped underground for 17 days and facing weeks to be freed.

Bodies found in Mexico mine shaft

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Police in Mexico find at least 19 bodies in an abandoned mine shaft 90km north of Mexico City, after a tip-off by alleged members of a drug cartel.

US troops in Iraq 'below 50,000'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:34 AM PDT

The US military says the number of its troops in Iraq is already below the 31 August target of 50,000, when US combat operations are due to end.

Brotherhood starts 'own Facebook'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood movement launches its own Facebook-style social networking site to promote moderate Islamic values, it says.

India rejects Vedanta mine plans

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:18 AM PDT

India refuses permission for the mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa amid concerns for local tribes.

Fourteen die in Nepal plane crash

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:24 AM PDT

A tourist plane crashes into hills outside Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, killing all 14 people on board.

Private defence firm fined $42m

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:33 AM PDT

Private defence company Blackwater, now known as XE Services, is fined $42m for violating US export and arms traffic laws.

Web scam hits iTunes and Paypal

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:07 AM PDT

ITunes accounts linked to Paypal have been targeted in a scam with a number of users complaining that they have been cleaned out.

Zurich fined £2.3m for data loss

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:43 AM PDT

The UK operation of Zurich Insurance is fined a record £2.27m for losing the personal details of 46,000 customers.

Subdued mortgage market continues

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:58 AM PDT

The mortgage market continued its summer slide with a fall in the number of new home loans approved by High Street banks.

US home sales drop to 10-year low

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:19 AM PDT

Sales of existing homes in the US plunged 27% in July to their lowest level in more than 10 years, figures suggest.

Don't ditch Asbos, Labour warns

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:02 AM PDT

Labour is urging the government to keep Asbos in England and Wales, saying they have been a success in tackling crime.

Cuts cause Lib Dem to join Labour

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:43 AM PDT

A senior Liberal Democrat councillor in Liverpool defects to Labour, expressing his disdain at the coalition government's latest round of cuts.

Union challenges NHS 'shake-up'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:26 AM PDT

Unison has launched legal action against the government's plans for a major shake-up of the NHS system in England.

Bowel cancer drug move criticised

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:36 PM PDT

Bowel cancer charities criticise draft guidance by the government's health watchdog not to fund a bowel cancer drug on the NHS.

Memory problems 'need GP help'

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 06:20 PM PDT

People suffering memory problems should not delay seeking medical help, in case they have dementia, a charity says.

Microsoft probes Halo game breach

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:47 AM PDT

Microsoft is investigating how an eagerly anticipated Xbox game appeared on the internet three weeks ahead of its official release.

Cheating gamers face online ban

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:06 AM PDT

The people behind one of the biggest video games of the year are taking the unusual step of banning some of its fans from playing the online, multi-player version.

Rich exoplanet system discovered

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:03 AM PDT

Astronomers discover a planetary system containing at least five planets orbiting a star much like our Sun.

'Living space' key for evolution

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.

Planet pulverised by double star

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:49 AM PDT

Astronomers have uncovered evidence for massive planetary collisions around several binary stars

Adams trust sues over print sales

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:54 AM PDT

The estate of late photographer Ansel Adams sues a man who has apparently been selling prints he claims are Adams's work.

Library visitors continue to drop

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:38 AM PDT

The number of adults visiting libraries in England has fallen steadily over the last five years, a government report reveals.

Expendables tops UK movie chart

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:48 AM PDT

Sylvester Stallone's action movie The Expendables ends Toy Story 3's reign at the top of the UK box office chart in its first week.

What are Silly Bandz?

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:42 AM PDT

They're the latest youth craze in the US and they've crossed the Atlantic to the UK. So what are Silly Bandz?

How do you un-glue a protester?

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:31 PM PDT

Climate campaigners superglued themselves to a cark park during a demonstration on Monday. How are such protesters extracted?

Blogger on Ground Zero mosque row

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:31 AM PDT

One New Yorker, Daryl Lang, has made his opinions known on his blog, where he has expressed support for the right for the building to go ahead.

Woman who 'dumped' cat seen by RSPCA

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:36 AM PDT

A woman featured in CCTV footage putting a cat in a bin in Coventry, has been identified

A novel idea: The library in a pub

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 06:57 PM PDT

David Sillito takes a look around the village pub that doubles as a library

The great pot plant investigation

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Local government minister Bob Neill has claimed his department has not spent a penny on pot plants after a row over the plant bill at the Audit Commission. Can this be true? Newsnight investigates.

Flood survivors' long trek for food

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:13 AM PDT

The BBC's Orla Guerin meets survivors of the Pakistan floods in the Swat Valley, who are facing increasingly desperate struggle to find food and supplies, amid fears of a power vacuum in the former Taliban stronghold.

How did it all end in such carnage?

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:28 AM PDT

The Philippine government is to send a high-level delegation to Hong Kong amid increasing public anger there over the deaths of eight citizens in the hijacking of a tourist bus in Manila.

Freak wind rips through village

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:27 AM PDT

Villagers at Great Livermere in Suffolk have been clearing up after a tornado left a trail of damage.

Venezuela street art splits opinion

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:51 PM PDT

The rapid growth of socialist street art in Caracas is splitting opinion in the deeply polarised city.

Young achievers

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:22 AM PDT

Why are more pupils taking GCSEs early?

Fatal mistakes

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:28 AM PDT

Ten things the Manila bus siege police got wrong

In the spotlight

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:07 AM PDT

A look at George Michael's arrests since 2005

In pictures

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:31 AM PDT

Ferrari looking into supercar fires

Holy mackerel

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:56 AM PDT

Why is Britain braced for a 'war' over humble fish?

Four hard months

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:03 AM PDT

Six steps to survival for trapped miners in Chile

The town that went mad

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:49 AM PDT

Did the CIA put LSD in the bread sold in French town?

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