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- Obama backs India's UN seat bid
- Yemen cleric in US death message
- Haiti's cholera toll reaches 544
- Collider produces 'mini-Big Bang'
- Israel plans 1,300 settler homes
- Thousands flee Burma border clash
- Deaths in Morocco Sahara clashes
- Painkillers 'risky in pregnancy'
- Houellebecq wins top French prize
- US bans air freight from Somalia
- Amanda Knox faces slander trial
- Ants enslave the strong not weak
- Lady Gaga scoops MTV awards trio
- Pakistan's keeper arrives in UK
- Alonso '100%' confident of title
- South Africa win Pakistan decider
- Roma worker in £2.9m scam jailed
- Tube bomb 'blew me out of train'
- Anglican bishops join Catholics
- Woolas in new bid to overturn ban
- Officer branded dead girl 'scum'
- Inquiry to probe 'terrible' care
- Sheridan friend denies 'sell out'
- George Galloway considers MSP bid
- Paramilitaries linked to suicides
- Banks have to lend again - Foster
- Clegg to meet Greece death family
- Anger as rape case woman jailed
- Canada considers Afghan extension
- Bush decision 'angered Cheney'
- Cuba urged to free more prisoners
- Chile miner completes NY marathon
- Nigerian militants attack oil rig
- Court orders Niger's Tandja freed
- Second Russian reporter attacked
- Uranium smugglers held in Georgia
- Deadly blasts target Iraq Shias
- Iraqi leaders in coalition talks
- At least 19 dead in Assam attack
- Sri Lanka declares war on wheat
- Qantas finds A380 engine problems
- Taiwan judges held for corruption
- US drops target amid dollar spat
- UK in major push for China trade
- Chrysler raises profit forecast
- Zero hour for Call of Duty sequel
- Nokia reabsorbs Symbian software
- Navy website suffers hack attack
- Chinese artist in UK rights call
- Thompson 'regret' over Sky letter
- Jackson album vocals 'not fake'
- UK space earnings now at £7.5bn
- Radiation 'cuts' prostate cancer
- Experts trail snail fever defence
- New test could boost IVF success
- Burma election: 'Not going to vote'
- The riddle of the NHS budget
- Quiz of the week's news
- Baby koala shot in 'sick' attack
- Convicted killers compete in rodeo
- US doctor: Cholera found in Haiti capital
- Chilean miner completes marathon
- Qantas finds A380 engine problems
- Whale deaths under investigation
- Gaga dominates MTV Europe awards
- Will jetpacks ever take off?
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| Obama backs India's UN seat bid Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:10 AM PST US President Barack Obama backs India's bid to be granted permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Yemen cleric in US death message Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:04 AM PST A US-born Yemeni Islamist cleric calls for the killing of Americans in a new video message posted on radical web sites. |
| Haiti's cholera toll reaches 544 Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:16 AM PST The death toll from the Haitian cholera epidemic reaches 544, the health ministry says, as fears mount that the disease is spreading to the capital. |
| Collider produces 'mini-Big Bang' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:12 AM PST The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a mini-Big Bang by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. |
| Israel plans 1,300 settler homes Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:19 AM PST Israel reveals plans to build nearly 1,300 housing units for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem. |
| Thousands flee Burma border clash Posted: 08 Nov 2010 11:06 AM PST Thousands flee across the Burmese border to escape clashes between troops and ethnic Karen rebels, a day after the first election in 20 years. |
| Deaths in Morocco Sahara clashes Posted: 08 Nov 2010 11:02 AM PST At least three people are killed and dozens injured as Moroccan forces break up a protest camp in the disputed Western Sahara territory. |
| Painkillers 'risky in pregnancy' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:33 AM PST Commonly used painkillers like aspirin and paracetamol may pose a risk to unborn baby boys, experts say. |
| Houellebecq wins top French prize Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:10 AM PST The controversial writer Michel Houellebecq wins France's top literary award, the Goncourt Prize, for his book The Map and the Territory. |
| US bans air freight from Somalia Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:46 AM PST The US extends an air cargo ban to cover Somalia as well as Yemen and bans ink cartridges from passenger flights, in the wake of last month's bomb plot. |
| Amanda Knox faces slander trial Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:45 AM PST American student is to face trial for slander after claiming police beat her during questioning over the killing of Briton Meredith Kercher. |
| Ants enslave the strong not weak Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:02 AM PST Slavemaker ants target strongly defended colonies when seeking new servants, researchers find. |
| Lady Gaga scoops MTV awards trio Posted: 08 Nov 2010 12:49 AM PST Lady Gaga wins three prizes at MTV's Europe Music Awards in Madrid, while UK artists including Alexandra Burke fail to make an impression. |
| Pakistan's keeper arrives in UK Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:31 AM PST Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider arrives in London after earlier reports that he was 'missing'. |
| Alonso '100%' confident of title Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:09 AM PST Ferrari's Fernando Alonso believes he will wrap up the drivers' title in Abu Dhabi no matter what his Red Bull rivals do. |
| South Africa win Pakistan decider Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:30 AM PST Veteran all-rounder Jacques Kallis plays a big role as South Africa win the final one-day international against Pakistan to claim the series 3-2. |
| Roma worker in £2.9m scam jailed Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:50 AM PST A woman who admitted helping more than 170 Romanians illegally claim nearly £3m in benefits is jailed for more than two years. |
| Tube bomb 'blew me out of train' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:33 AM PST A survivor of the 7 July blast at Edgware Road Tube station tells an inquest how he was standing next to the plot ringleader when he detonated his bomb. |
| Anglican bishops join Catholics Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:31 AM PST Three serving and two retired bishops are to join the Roman Catholic Church under a Vatican scheme to welcome disaffected Anglicans. |
| Woolas in new bid to overturn ban Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:20 AM PST Ex-immigration minister Phil Woolas makes a fresh bid to overturn a court ruling that banned him from politics. |
| Officer branded dead girl 'scum' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:21 AM PST A police dog handler faces disciplinary action over an insulting remark about a girl who had been killed by a speeding patrol car. |
| Inquiry to probe 'terrible' care Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:53 AM PST An inquiry into avoidable deaths at Stafford Hospital will look at why the health care system tolerated a "terrible standard of service". |
| Sheridan friend denies 'sell out' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:02 AM PST Tommy Sheridan's best man denies being "a grass" for selling a tape in which he allegedly confessed to visiting a sex club. |
| George Galloway considers MSP bid Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:00 AM PST Controversial former Glasgow MP George Galloway is considering a return to politics by standing for a seat in the Scottish Parliament. |
| Paramilitaries linked to suicides Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:52 AM PST There are calls for loyalist paramilitaries to end beatings and threats against young people in the Shankill area of Belfast. |
| Banks have to lend again - Foster Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:31 AM PST The Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, calls on banks to help the economy by lending to NI businesses. |
| Clegg to meet Greece death family Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:31 AM PST Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg agrees to meet the family of a Cardiff teenager, who died while in Greece in 2007. |
| Anger as rape case woman jailed Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:11 AM PST Rape charities have reacted in fury after a woman who accused her husband of rape was jailed for falsely dropping the charges. |
| Canada considers Afghan extension Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:33 AM PST Canada is poised to extend its military commitment in Afghanistan for three years past a withdrawal deadline of July 2011, officials say. |
| Bush decision 'angered Cheney' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:24 AM PST George W Bush had a falling-out with Dick Cheney over the former president's refusal to pardon the vice-president's top aide in a spy scandal, Mr Bush says. |
| Cuba urged to free more prisoners Posted: 08 Nov 2010 12:21 AM PST Cuban opposition activists accuse the communist government of failing to keep its promise to release more jailed dissidents. |
| Chile miner completes NY marathon Posted: 07 Nov 2010 01:32 PM PST Edison Pena, the Chilean miner who famously jogged underground while awaiting rescue, completes the New York marathon. |
| Nigerian militants attack oil rig Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:49 AM PST Gunmen in Nigeria attack an offshore oil rig and seize five workers after a relative lull in recent months. |
| Court orders Niger's Tandja freed Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:26 AM PST A West African regional court orders Niger's military junta to release the president they deposed, Mamadou Tandja, from house arrest. |
| Second Russian reporter attacked Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:27 AM PST Russian journalist Anatoliy Adamchuk is brutally beaten, according to media reports, in the second such attack in days. |
| Uranium smugglers held in Georgia Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:27 AM PST Georgia reveals how it intercepted a group of smugglers trying to sell weapons-grade uranium on the black market. |
| Deadly blasts target Iraq Shias Posted: 08 Nov 2010 11:04 AM PST Bomb attacks on Shia targets in Karbala, Najaf and Basra in Iraq leave at least 19 people dead and many injured. |
| Iraqi leaders in coalition talks Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:57 AM PST A top-level meeting of Iraq's political factions opens in Irbil to try to finalise a deal on a new government, eight months after an inconclusive general election. |
| At least 19 dead in Assam attack Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:53 AM PST At least 19 people die in attacks by separatist rebels on markets and buses in India's north-eastern state of Assam. |
| Sri Lanka declares war on wheat Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:51 AM PST The Sri Lankan government is intensifying its struggle against an unlikely enemy but one which it says is very real - wheat. |
| Qantas finds A380 engine problems Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:49 PM PST Australian airline Qantas says it is keeping its Airbus A380s grounded for further checks after finding "anomalies" with three engines. |
| Taiwan judges held for corruption Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:20 AM PST Twelve judges, prosecutors, lawyers and others in Taiwan are charged with corruption, as part of a campaign to clean up the judicial system. |
| US drops target amid dollar spat Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:42 AM PST US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has dropped calls to cap trade surpluses as the US comes under fire for its quantitative easing policy. |
| UK in major push for China trade Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:47 AM PST Government ministers and 50 British business leaders are visiting China this week to try to forge profitable trade ties. |
| Chrysler raises profit forecast Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:52 AM PST US carmaker Chrysler raises its full-year profit forecast to $700m, as third-quarter results show market share recovering. |
| Zero hour for Call of Duty sequel Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:29 AM PST Call of Duty: Black Ops, the sequel to last year's multi-million pound video game blockbuster, goes on sale tonight. |
| Nokia reabsorbs Symbian software Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:40 AM PST Nokia takes back control of the Symbian operating system, 18 months after it set up a non-profit organisation to oversee its development. |
| Navy website suffers hack attack Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:04 AM PST A Romanian hacker who attacked the Royal Navy website publishes details of the information he recovered including passwords. |
| Chinese artist in UK rights call Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:56 AM PST Chinese artist Ai Weiwei - now released from house arrest - says the British PM must raise human rights issues when he visits Beijing on Tuesday. |
| Thompson 'regret' over Sky letter Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:58 AM PST BBC boss Mark Thompson 'regrets' not discussing with trustees his signing of an open letter about BSkyB's future to Business Secretary Vince Cable, it emerges. |
| Jackson album vocals 'not fake' Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:55 AM PST Sony Music dismisses claims that vocals on a new Michael Jackson album, Michael - due for release next month - are not those of the star. |
| UK space earnings now at £7.5bn Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:22 AM PST The UK space sector produced a remarkable performance through the recent recession, growing by an average of 10% a year from 2007, an industry survey finds. |
| Radiation 'cuts' prostate cancer Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:42 PM PST Deaths from high-risk prostate cancer can be cut by giving men radiation treatment as well as hormonal therapy, research by Cardiff University has shown. |
| Experts trail snail fever defence Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:12 AM PST Edinburgh scientists find a way to "switch on" an immune cell to help people fight a tropical disease. |
| New test could boost IVF success Posted: 07 Nov 2010 04:01 PM PST A new screening technique to check the health of embryos could significantly increase the chances of having a baby from IVF. |
| Burma election: 'Not going to vote' Posted: 04 Nov 2010 08:57 AM PDT As Burma holds its first elections in 20 years, representatives of three Burmese ethnic groups talk to the BBC about life under military rule and their hopes for the future. |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:01 AM PST Is health spending heading for the biggest shock of all? In his regular column, Michael Blastland does the numbers. |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:24 PM PDT The Magazine's weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions - plus the Weekly Bonus Question. |
| Baby koala shot in 'sick' attack Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:57 AM PST Vets are trying to save a baby koala who was repeatedly shot in eastern Australia. |
| Convicted killers compete in rodeo Posted: 08 Nov 2010 12:31 AM PST Every year the gates of Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison, open to the public for an increasingly popular rodeo show. |
| US doctor: Cholera found in Haiti capital Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:45 AM PST A doctor in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, says she has seen cases of suspected cholera. |
| Chilean miner completes marathon Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:50 AM PST The Chilean miner who famously jogged underground while awaiting rescue has completed the New York City Marathon. |
| Qantas finds A380 engine problems Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:04 AM PST The Australian airline, Qantas, has said it has found "slight anomalies" on three Airbus A380 engines and is keeping its fleet of six passenger jets grounded for further checks. |
| Whale deaths under investigation Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:40 PM PST Conservationists are trying to find out why 33 pilot whales beached and died off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland. |
| Gaga dominates MTV Europe awards Posted: 07 Nov 2010 11:23 PM PST Lady Gaga has scooped three prizes at the MTV European Music Awards in Madrid, winning best female, best pop act and best song for Bad Romance. |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 01:48 AM PST Jetpack enthusiast Stuart Ross wants to make his homemade device a viable mode of transport. |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:25 AM PST Turkey's president says interest in joining the EU may wane |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:01 AM PST Eye-catching images from around the world |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:15 AM PST Western fears complicate Yemen's security problems |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:39 AM PST Ex-astronaut Jeff Hoffman on the International Space Station |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:19 AM PST EU watching as Irish war on debt takes its toll |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2010 04:01 PM PST Memories of a disabled sibling turned into novel |
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