Thursday, October 28, 2010

Aid reaches stricken tsunami islands

Aid reaches stricken tsunami islands

Aid reaches stricken tsunami islands

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:23 AM PDT

Relief efforts are stepped up in Indonesia as aid deliveries reach the worst-hit parts of the island chain devastated by Monday's tsunami.

EU heads seek new budget controls

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:59 AM PDT

European leaders meet amid pressure to rein in the EU budget and set up a scheme to prevent future debt crises.

Argentines honour Nestor Kirchner

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:54 AM PDT

Thousands of Argentines wait in line to pay their respects as former President Nestor Kirchner lies in state.

China claims supercomputer crown

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:14 AM PDT

China has wrested the title of the nation with the most powerful supercomputer on the planet away from the US.

Torture 'abhorrent' says MI6 head

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:11 AM PDT

The head of Britain's MI6, Sir John Sawers, says his organisation faces "constant operational dilemmas" to avoid using intelligence gathered by torture.

Nissan to recall 2.1 million cars

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:56 AM PDT

Nissan recalls 2.1 million vehicles worldwide because of an ignition problem, including nearly 84,000 K12 Micras built in the UK.

DC 'bomb plot' man known to FBI

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:20 AM PDT

The FBI learned in January that a man arrested over an alleged Washington DC Metro bomb plot tried to contact extremist groups, the agency says.

Protests as Germany stays nuclear

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:05 AM PDT

Activists unfurl a giant protest banner in Berlin as Germany's parliament votes to extend the life of nuclear plants.

Nigeria rapped for mass evictions

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:06 AM PDT

Plans to redevelop Nigeria's oil capital of Port Harcourt - which have already sparked violent clashes - could leave 200,000 people homeless, warns the rights group Amnesty International.

Merapi erupts as victims buried

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:42 AM PDT

Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has erupted for a second time, hours after some of its victims were buried in a mass grave.

China in bid to settle rare earth fears

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:13 AM PDT

China says it will not use exports of so-called rare earth minerals as a diplomatic bargaining tool.

Vladimir Putin's 'black eye' sparks rumours

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:10 AM PDT

The sight of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with apparent bruising to his face sparks speculation about his health.

Maldives to probe tourist wedding 'abuse'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:28 AM PDT

Maldives police are to launch a formal investigation after a tourist couple were verbally abused during what they thought was a renewal of their wedding vows.

Strauss predicts success in Ashes

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:44 AM PDT

England captain Andrew Strauss says his side can win the Ashes in Australia for the first time since 1986-87.

Russia stir 2018 row with England

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:17 AM PDT

The battle to host the 2018 World Cup intensifies after England are called "absolutely primitive" by a senior Russian official.

World Cup winner Vickery retires

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:51 AM PDT

Wasps prop and World Cup winner Phil Vickery retires from rugby after taking medical advice following his latest neck injury.

Row over 'Kosovo' benefit remarks

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Vince Cable criticises London Mayor Boris Johnson's comments about housing benefit plans, saying references to "social cleansing" are inflammatory.

EU budget rise unacceptable - PM

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:37 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron says a 6% rise in the EU budget would be unacceptable, as he arrives in Brussels for a summit.

Police 'punched' park stab victim

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:51 AM PDT

CCTV footage emerges showing police officers appearing to punch a man who had been stabbed in a Liverpool park.

Fresh BBC strikes are announced

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:37 AM PDT

BBC journalists are to strike after voting to reject the corporation's latest proposals to overhaul the staff pension scheme.

Mother's attack over lake death

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:55 AM PDT

A mother criticises fire officers for not going into a frozen lake in Northamptonshire to rescue her drowning son.

Man jailed for selling Emin fakes

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:33 AM PDT

A man who forged art works by Tracey Emin and sold them on internet auction site eBay is jailed for 16 months.

Journalist and Sheridan 'had sex'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:58 AM PDT

A former News of the World columnist claims to have had sex with Tommy Sheridan while he was married.

Police 'sorry' over murder error

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:30 AM PDT

A police force apologises to the family of a dead woman after they failed to spot the murder weapon used to kill her in her own home.

Police 'copter injured airlifted

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:52 AM PDT

Four people have been injured after a police helicopter crashed in the Mourne mountains close to the scene of a fatal crash at the weekend.

Struggle to find prison governor

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:59 AM PDT

Prison authorities are facing another crisis at the high security Maghaberry jail after failing to attract a suitable candidate to become governor.

Valleys council staff job fears

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:46 AM PDT

A union claims about 10,000 council workers face losing their jobs unless they accept worse pay and conditions under new contracts.

Third arrest in farm murder probe

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:00 AM PDT

A third Kent man is arrested in North Wales over the death of a businessman Julian Gardner at his farm in East Sussex.

US foreclosure crisis spreading

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:05 AM PDT

New figures on US home repossessions show the crisis has spread across a wider area of the country since the summer.

US 'not tracking Afghan spending'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:15 AM PDT

The US government spends billions of dollars helping Afghanistan rebuild but cannot easily show how the money was spent, a government watchdog says.

Cholera feared near Haiti capital

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:53 AM PDT

New suspected cholera cases in Haiti raise fears that the epidemic is moving closer to the capital Port-au-Prince as some Haitians blame UN peace keepers for the outbreak of the disease.

Mexico car wash shooting kills 15

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Gunmen kill 15 people at a car wash in western Mexico, which local media says employed recovering drug addicts.

Guinea hopeful cancels joint tour

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:54 AM PDT

One of the two rival candidates in Guinea's much-delayed presidential election run-off pulls out of a "peace tour" of the country with his rival, as pre-vote tensions continue to simmer.

Somalia Islamists 'execute spies'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:56 AM PDT

Two young women are shot dead in a public execution by Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, whose fighters accused them of spying, reports say.

Serbs offer 10m euros for Mladic

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Serbia raises to 10m euros its reward for information leading to the capture of Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.

New France strike as protest ebbs

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:35 AM PDT

Turnout is lower in France for the latest day of strikes and action over the government's pension reforms, after the plan was passed in the National Assembly.

Bahrain opens Shia 'coup' trial

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:34 AM PDT

The trial of 25 Shia Muslim opposition activists opens in Bahrain, five days after a tense general election.

'No progress' in Mid-East talks

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:30 AM PDT

During a rare visit to the West Bank, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit says there has been no breakthrough in efforts to revive Mid-East peace talks.

Pakistan drone attacks 'kill 11'

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:41 PM PDT

At least 11 suspected militants have been killed in drone attacks in tribal areas Pakistan since Wednesday, officials say.

Butt hopeful of return to action

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:10 AM PDT

Pakistan batsman Salman Butt is confident of playing again as the ICC prepare to look into spot-fixing allegations this weekend.

China boosts maritime watch fleet

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:22 AM PDT

China expands its fleet of maritime surveillance ships, state media report, amid territorial disputes with a number of neighbours.

Daughter pleads for China lawyer

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:13 AM PDT

The daughter of missing Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng appeals to President Barack Obama for help in an open letter.

Chrysler saved by 'narrow margin'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:07 AM PDT

The decision to bail out carmaker Chrysler was made by the narrowest of margins, President Obama's former "car czar" reveals.

Nintendo makes loss as sales fall

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:30 AM PDT

Computer games firm Nintendo reports a half-year loss after being hit by falling sales and the high value of the yen.

Exxon profits from high oil price

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:59 AM PDT

Exxon Mobil's latest quarterly profits jump 55% after it benefited from higher oil prices and increased production.

UK net economy 'worth billions'

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:01 PM PDT

A study into how much the internet contributes to the UK economy says it is larger than the construction, transport and utility sectors.

Big business forms cloud alliance

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:53 AM PDT

Big name firms get together to use their billion dollar clout to push for cloud computing standards.

Spotify denies Apple takeover

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:47 AM PDT

The digital music streaming service has told Newsbeat they have no plans to sell off the business.

Honoured Boyle 'happy to be runt'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:34 AM PDT

Director Danny Boyle is "happy to be the runt of the litter" as he becomes the latest BFI fellow at the London Film Festival.

007's Aston Martin fetches £2.6m

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 05:30 PM PDT

An American car enthusiast has paid £2.6m to buy James Bond's most famous car - and then vowed to take it for a spin around the streets of London.

Name of new Batman film revealed

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:16 AM PDT

The new Batman sequel will be called The Dark Knight Rises and will not be shot in 3D, director Christopher Nolan says.

World Bank to account for nature

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:00 AM PDT

The World Bank announces a programme to help nations properly account for the destruction of nature that their activities cause.

Neutron star is record breaker

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:13 AM PDT

A super-dense object no wider than a large city is calculated by astronomers to have a mass twice that of our Sun.

Cumbria could host nuclear waste

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:21 AM PDT

A British Geological Survey report has identified areas of West Cumbria that may eventually house a deep repository for nuclear waste.

Freeze ovaries to boost fertility

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:48 AM PDT

Young women should freeze parts of their ovaries if they choose to postpone motherhood, a US scientist says.

Lethal cancer 'grows for decades'

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 06:28 PM PDT

Pancreatic cancer may lurk in the body for many years before patients fall ill, US scientists say.

Is time running out for the wristwatch?

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:12 AM PDT

One in seven people has no need for a watch, a survey suggests. Are mobile phone time displays killing off the wristwatch?

Do you say 'haitch' or 'aitch'?

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:03 AM PDT

The pronunciation of common words has changed drastically over time. And, as the British Library begins a quest to record people's articulations, it seems that differences in how we say words could be influenced by age.

Pakistan still in need of help after floods

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:14 AM PDT

Aid agencies are warning that the crisis caused by extensive flooding in Pakistan three months ago is entering a new and critical phase.

'Yes we can - but...' Obama's Daily Show

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 11:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has become the first sitting US President to appear on satirical TV show The Daily Show, alongside host Jon Stewart.

Aerial video shows tsunami aftermath

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 06:50 PM PDT

A tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit a group of remote Indonesian islands has killed more than 300 people.

Funerals held for volcano victims

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:45 AM PDT

In Indonesia funerals are being held for many of those who died when Mount Merapi erupted in central Java, as activity at the volcano calms down.

African election but no tribal tension

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:02 AM PDT

How has a country of more than 100 tribes succeeded in a region where many of its neighbours have experienced numerous cases of tribal-tension?

Secret Nazi files may expose diplomats

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Some of Germany's leading diplomats were deeply implicated in the Holocaust according to an official report which examines the Foreign Ministry's role in the Nazi era.

Drug gangs bring terror to Mexico

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:19 AM PDT

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico.

Attempt to stem MySpace decline

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:25 PM PDT

When News Corporation bought MySpace back in 2005 it had the young, fashion conscious audience that advertisers target, and the social networking site was growing fast.

Climate of fear

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:38 AM PDT

Is Sweden's immigrant community being stalked by a lone gunman?

Volcano victims

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:04 AM PDT

'Spiritual keeper' of Indonesia's Mount Merapi among those buried

Party time?

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:02 AM PDT

Ivory Coast's polls hope to end a decade of conflict and coups

Day in pictures

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:20 AM PDT

Eye-catching images from around the world

Life of excess

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 07:53 PM PDT

How has Keith Richards survived his wild lifestyle for so long?

Too radical?

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:06 AM PDT

Why Tea Party ideals and big business may clash

Strike culture

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Why France's strikes baffle trade unions elsewhere
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