Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Honduras jail fire kills hundreds

Honduras jail fire kills hundreds


Honduras jail fire kills hundreds

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:53 AM PST

A huge fire at a prison in Honduras kills at least 300 inmates, officials say, as victims' relatives desperate for news try to storm the building.

Eurozone states 'want Greece out'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:06 AM PST

Some eurozone countries want Greece to leave, the country's finance minister says, as he scrambles to finalise an EU bailout deal.

Iran unveils 'nuclear advances'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:34 AM PST

Iran says it has for the first time used domestically-made nuclear fuel rods in one of its reactors.

Syria plans vote on constitution

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed that a referendum on the new draft constitution will be held on 26 February, state media report.

500m children 'stunted by hunger'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:27 AM PST

Half a billion children could grow up physically or mentally stunted in the next 15 years due to insufficient food, a children's charity says.

Xi calls for 'deep' US-China ties

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:22 AM PST

Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping calls for deeper "strategic trust" in a speech to business leaders in Washington, on the second full day of his US visit.

Berlusconi case: Jail term urged

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST

Italian prosecutors ask for former PM Silvio Berlusconi to be jailed for five years on bribery charges.

Zoellick to leave World Bank role

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:26 AM PST

World Bank president Robert Zoellick is to step down from his role at the institution when his five-year term comes to an end on 30 June.

Missing Appel artworks recovered

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:44 AM PST

More than 400 works of art by Dutch artist Karel Appel are recovered after being discovered in a British warehouse, a decade after they disappeared.

Iranians arrested over Thai bombs

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:31 AM PST

Four suspects, all believed to be Iranian, are connected to explosions in Bangkok on Tuesday and one is still at large, Thai police say.

Adele plays down 'hiatus' remark

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:47 AM PST

Chart-topping singer Adele acts to quieten speculation she is to take a five-year break from the music business.

Nazi sci-fi causes buzz in Berlin

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST

A Finnish comedy about Nazi forces invading Earth from a base on the moon has become the surprise hit of the Berlin Film Festival.

VIDEO: 'Bio-hackers' create New York lab

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:26 PM PST

A group of scientists have created the first community-run biology laboratory in New York City in an effort to promote creativity in science.

VIDEO: Ahmedinejad on Iran's nuclear progress

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:34 AM PST

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country has added 3,000 more centrifuges to its effort to enrich uranium, in a speech made after he visited a new nuclear facility.

VIDEO: Homes buried in Romanian snow

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:28 PM PST

Romanian rescue teams have been struggling to evacuate people whose homes have been smothered by heavy snow.

VIDEO: Kim Jong-un's new style in North Korea

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:11 PM PST

How do the leadership styles of the late Kim Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un compare and what does this mean for North Korea?

VIDEO: Nazis from space Berlin premiere

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:52 AM PST

Iron Sky, a Finnish sci-fi spoof depicting a Nazi attack on Earth from space, has had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

VIDEO: Rare look inside Burma's capital

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:34 PM PST

The BBC's Rachel Harvey has been granted rare access to film inside Burma's parliament in the Burmese capital city Naypyidaw, where she walked a virtually unused 20-lane highway.

VIDEO: Massive safety drill in Delhi

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:26 AM PST

For the first time ever, disaster management agencies in the Indian capital Delhi have carried out a massive drill to test their level of preparedness in the event of an earthquake

Europe struck by growth slowdown

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:02 AM PST

Italy and the Netherlands fall into recession and Germany contracts, but France shows surprise fourth quarter growth.

Unemployment continues to edge up

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:46 AM PST

UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, the smallest increase for almost a year.

Challenge to Microsoft Skype deal

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST

Microsoft's takeover of video calling service Skype is to be challenged by Cisco at the European Commission.

Police close down UK music site

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:19 AM PST

Man arrested as police shut down popular music site RnBXclusive, warning that users could face jail and unlimited fines.

Sony sorry for Houston price hike

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:15 AM PST

Record label Sony apologises for increasing the price of two Whitney Houston albums, hours after her death on Saturday.

Singer-composer Dory Previn dies

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST

Dory Previn, the US singer and composer who collaborated with former husband Andre on two Oscar-nominated songs, has died in Massachusetts at the age of 86.

Nations get tough on tiger trade

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:36 AM PST

Crime chiefs from nations where tigers are still found in the wild agree to improve co-operation in an effort to stop the illegal trade in tiger parts.

Tiny lizards found in Madagascar

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:56 PM PST

One of the world's tiniest lizards has been discovered by keen-eyed researchers in Madagascar.

Bacteria stop sleeping sickness

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:02 PM PST

Scientists believe they have found a way to beat sleeping sickness by using a bacterium against the host that spreads the disease to humans - the tsetse fly.

Bone gives 'some' heart healing

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:10 PM PST

Bone marrow stem cell therapy offers "moderate improvement" to heart attack patients, according to a large review of clinical trials.

Live - England v Pakistan

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:07 AM PST

England beat Pakistan by 20 runs in the second one-day international in Abu Dhabi.

Live - Champions League

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:30 AM PST

AC Milan take on Arsenal after Zenit St Petersburg beat Benfica in Wednesday's Champions League last-16 first leg ties.

Giant Kim Jong-il statue unveiled

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:30 PM PST

A giant statue of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is unveiled ahead of Thursday's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of his birthday.

Libyans 'not keen on democracy'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:18 AM PST

Many Libyans prefer strong leaders rather than a more democratic model of government despite decades of authoritarian rule, a survey says.

China's Xi defends rights record

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:13 PM PST

China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, defends his country's record on human rights, at the start of a week-long visit to the United States.

PM promises to tackle drink abuse

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:14 AM PST

The prime minister calls for bars, supermarkets and the drinks industry in England to do more to help tackle the "scandal" of alcohol abuse.

MPs visit Falklands amid tensions

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 AM PST

The Commons defence committee says its visit to the Falklands was agreed in late 2011, but is not a response to a recent escalation of tensions with Argentina over the islands' future.

Iran denies ending EU oil exports

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:55 AM PST

Iran's oil ministry denies state media reports saying it had stopped oil exports to six European countries in retaliation for the EU's oil embargo.

Congress nears payroll tax deal

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:08 AM PST

A joint House-Senate panel comes to a tentative agreement to pass a year-long extension of the payroll tax cut, ending weeks of uncertainty.

Knives found after girl stabbed

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:21 AM PST

Police investigating the fatal stabbing of a Doncaster teenager say they have recovered knives which may have been used in the attack.

Man arrested over vicar's death

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:03 AM PST

A 43-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder after a vicar was found dead near Bristol.

Murder accused denies infatuation

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:28 AM PST

A man accused of raping and murdering a pregnant teenager tells a jury he was not infatuated by her.

Mulcaire granted evidence appeal

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:45 AM PST

The Supreme Court rules that it will decide whether private investigator Glenn Mulcaire must reveal which journalists asked him to hack phones.

In pictures: Honduras prison fire

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:57 AM PST

Aftermath of a fire at a jail in central Honduras

In pictures: Bahrain clashes

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:07 PM PST

Clashes between protesters and police

How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST

How did people lose their fear of nuclear war?

Whitney Houston and the art of melisma

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:29 AM PST

Just what is the art of 'melisma'?

Jolie film opens old wounds

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:27 AM PST

Angelina Jolie takes her Bosnian War film to Sarajevo

The man who hears colour

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:37 AM PST

The cyborg artist who can hear colours

Day in pictures: 15 February 2012

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

24 hours of news photos from around the world

Tiny songbird traverses the world

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:50 PM PST

Scientists track tiny round-the-world songbird

Picasso's Guernica in a car showroom

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:05 PM PST

How Picasso's Guernica came to be nailed to a car showroom wall

Kenya's legal same-sex marriages

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:12 AM PST

Same-sex marriages in Kenya where homosexuality is banned

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