Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes

Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes


Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 07:27 AM PDT

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he should be rewarded for "reducing suffering", in his defence against war crimes at The Hague.

Obama team bullish on next debate

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama's team says he will make a "strong" comeback in Tuesday's debate rematch with Republican Mitt Romney.

Citigroup's boss Pandit resigns

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:44 AM PDT

Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit surprises Wall Street by resigning with immediate effect after nearly five years at the head of the bank.

Senegal banned from Nations Cup

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 06:57 AM PDT

Senegal are disqualified from the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations after a riot forced Saturday's home tie with Ivory Coast to be abandoned.

Mother's joy at extradition block

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:29 AM PDT

The mother of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon says she is "overwhelmed" after the UK blocked his extradition to the US.

Shot Pakistan teenager 'strong'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:38 AM PDT

Doctors treating Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, say they are broadly optimistic about her treatment.

Top EU health official resigns

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:58 AM PDT

The EU commissioner for health, John Dalli, resigns after an anti-fraud inquiry links him to an attempt to influence tobacco legislation.

Prince letters publication vetoed

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT

The attorney general blocks the release of Prince Charles' letters to government departments, saying it would "seriously undermine" him when he becomes King.

Al-Qaeda driver wins court appeal

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT

A US court throws out the conviction of Osama Bin Laden's former driver, who had been jailed in Guantanamo Bay for giving material support to terrorism.

Spain police tackle Chinese mafia

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Dozens are arrested as Spanish police target Chinese criminal gangs in a nationwide operation.

Record number of SA rhinos killed

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:03 AM PDT

Poachers have killed a record number of rhinos in South Africa this year, with 455 slaughtered so far, the government says.

Creativity 'a mental illness'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:09 AM PDT

Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people.

VIDEO: Feeding a family in India on $10

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:49 PM PDT

India is one of the largest food producers in the world, but a staggering proportion of the country's children are malnourished.

VIDEO: Monet and Picasso among art theft

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:40 AM PDT

Paintings by artists including Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin and Freud have been stolen from a museum in Rotterdam.

VIDEO: Bolivian prodigy stuns jazz world

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:12 AM PDT

A seven-year-old blind musician from Bolivia is attracting worldwide attention for his prodigious jazz talent.

VIDEO: Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:06 AM PDT

The man who led the Bosnian Serbs during the Balkans conflict, Radovan Karadzic, has begun his defence at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

VIDEO: How did Baumgartner's heart cope?

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:42 AM PDT

When skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped 24 miles to earth, breaking the sound barrier, his heart rate was closely monitored.

VIDEO: Prince letters publication vetoed

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:59 AM PDT

The BBC's James Landale reports after Attorney General Dominic Grieve blocked the release of private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to seven government departments.

VIDEO: New record for world's oldest man

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:49 AM PDT

A Japanese man is named the world's oldest for the second year in a row by Guinness World Records.

EU car sales 'in year-long drop'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:05 AM PDT

New car sales in the European Union fell for the 12th month in a row in September but the UK was the only major market to grow, carmakers say.

Profits climb at Goldman Sachs

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:25 AM PDT

US bank Goldman Sachs reports profits of $1.5bn for the three months to September, after recording a loss during the same period last year.

Google told to fix privacy policy

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:41 AM PDT

EU privacy watchdogs give Google up to four months to revise its privacy rules, warning it faces litigation otherwise.

UK blocks McKinnon extradition

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 07:32 AM PDT

British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US, Home Secretary Theresa May announces, saying his human rights would have been at risk.

Monet and Picasso among art theft

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:48 AM PDT

Paintings by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet are stolen from a museum in Rotterdam.

BBC appoints Savile inquiry heads

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT

The BBC appoints former Appeal Court judge Dame Janet Smith and former Head of Sky News Nick Pollard to lead two inquiries into Jimmy Savile.

Spain oil disaster case in court

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:43 AM PDT

The trial begins in Spain of the captain of the Prestige oil tanker that sank in 2002, causing the country's worst environmental disaster.

In-car smoke 'breaks toxic limit'

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 06:10 PM PDT

Smoking in the car, even with the window open, makes pollution that exceeds official "safe" limits, scientists say.

US meningitis investigation widens

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:41 AM PDT

Two more drugs from a US pharmaceutical firm may be linked to an outbreak of meningitis that has killed 15 people, officials warn.

England qualifier delayed by rain

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:25 PM PDT

England's World Cup qualifying match against Poland in Warsaw has been delayed because of a waterlogged pitch.

'Militant blasts' in Nigeria city

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:27 AM PDT

Loud explosions and gunfire rock the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri - the military says 24 militants from Islamist group Boko Haram were killed.

China to open bomb site to tours

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:21 AM PDT

China unveils a plan to open the site where it detonated its first atomic bomb to tourists, state-run Xinhua news agency reports.

Top Corsican lawyer shot dead

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Antoine Sollacaro, a prominent Corsican lawyer who defended a number of leading nationalists, has been shot dead on his way to work.

Cuba ends exit permit requirement

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 11:53 PM PDT

Cuba announces it is removing the need for citizens to obtain expensive exit permits, "white cards", before travelling abroad.

Kuwait's emir warned at protest

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Several protesters are hurt and others detained at an opposition protest where a former MP warns Kuwait's emir not to resort to autocratic rule.

Chinese 'view US less positively'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:04 AM PDT

Chinese views on the US have plummeted in the last two years, a study finds, with an increasing number of Chinese people seeing relations as hostile.

Man charged over Syria kidnapping

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:40 AM PDT

A 26-year-old Briton arrested at Heathrow on suspicion of terrorism offences is charged with the kidnap of a UK photographer in Syria, police say.

New move on Hillsborough inquests

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT

The Attorney General paves the way for a new inquest into the deaths of the 96 fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster.

UK inflation rate slows to 2.2%

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 06:35 AM PDT

The pace of price rises in the UK slowed to 2.2% in September, the lowest rate for nearly three years, and which will influence how much benefits rise next year.

Starbucks 'paid just £8.6m tax'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:28 AM PDT

US coffee giant Starbucks reportedly paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in the UK over 14 years and nothing in the last three years.

Day in pictures: 16 October 2012

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:56 AM PDT

24 hours of news photos: 16 October

In pictures: Umayyad Mosque burns

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Fighting between Syrian forces and rebels

Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 04:35 PM PDT

Lawyers who took on US tobacco target food industry next

The warlord who teaches good management

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 04:40 PM PDT

A Chinese warlord who teaches us good management

Chinese uneasy about 'unfair society'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 07:04 AM PDT

The social inequality that could cause China to stumble

How do sexual abusers cover their tracks?

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:29 AM PDT

How do sexual abusers cover their tracks?

Doctors and nurses forced to pick cotton

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:23 PM PDT

Doctors and nurses replace child labour in Uzbek cotton fields

'I've never felt more hunted in my whole life'

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:54 PM PDT

Former racers and staff tell BBC about doping in cycling

Cubans remember missile crisis 'victory'

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:10 PM PDT

Cubans remember the 1962 missile crisis

VIDEO: Fact checkers seek election truth

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:18 PM PDT

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers themselves?

Panda conservation not 'greenwash'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:56 AM PDT

Zoo director rejects 'greenwash' claim

Obama's do-or-die debate

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Obama's fate could be sealed on Tuesday, writes Mark Mardell

Is Arvind Kejriwal a harbinger of a new Indian politics?

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:32 PM PDT

Soutik Biswas asks if Arvind Kejriwal is changing Indian politics

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