Deadly blasts at Syria university |
- Deadly blasts at Syria university
- Pakistan court orders PM arrest
- Armstrong's answers 'unexpected'
- Mali town 'still in rebel hands'
- India PM issues Pakistan warning
- Cuba confirms cholera in Havana
- BA discriminated against Christian
- Thousands mourn Kurds in France
- 'Stolen' train crashes into flats
- Greenland defiant on rare earths
- S African woman gored by rhino
- Facebook unveils social search tools
- Corleone mayor in mafia apology
- Top US judge breaks court silence
- VIDEO: African elephant extinction fears
- VIDEO: Ever wanted to ride a giant robot?
- VIDEO: 'Russia spies' on trial in Germany
- VIDEO: 100 car pile-up kills three in Sweden
- VIDEO: The thrills of illegal racing
- VIDEO: Brazil's shanty town property boom
- VIDEO: Lagos v Paris: Rush hour challenge
- Germany's economy slows sharply
- US retail sales beat expectations
- Paying by text to launch Spring 2014
- Gun lobby releases shooting game
- Dan Brown to release new book in May
- Globes experiences audience boost
- Soot plays bigger role in warming
- Patent surge reveals graphene race
- Generic HIV drugs 'less effective'
- Regulate smoking 'like water' call
- McGinley handed Europe captaincy
- S Africa miner to cut 14,000 jobs
- Genes link Australians with India
- Russia 'spies' in Germany trial
- Chavez deputy 'to give address'
- Iraqi MP killed by suicide bomber
- US House to hold Sandy aid vote
- Police pay to be cut by £4,000
- Horsemeat found in beef burgers
- No M5 crash manslaughter charge
- Man 'lost entire family' in blaze
- 'Harry Potter Abbey' gets lit up
- Should Scrabble letter values change?
- Is Garibaldi in his tomb?
- African elephant poaching threatens wildlife future
- VIDEO: Tech start-ups remake Las Vegas
- Day in pictures: 15 January 2013
- The Kurdish women who take up arms
- Edible edifice: The offices of tomorrow
- Fishing on the frontline amid South China Sea dispute
- VIDEO: One million meditating children
- Confusion surrounds Syria 'transition'
- Is graphene really a wonder-material?
| Deadly blasts at Syria university Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:26 AM PST More than 50 people have been killed by two blasts at a university in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on the first day of exams, activists and officials say. |
| Pakistan court orders PM arrest Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:03 AM PST Pakistan's Supreme Court orders the arrest of PM Raja Pervez Ashraf and 15 others over corruption allegations, raising fears of a political crisis just months ahead of an election. |
| Armstrong's answers 'unexpected' Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:12 AM PST Lance Armstrong "did not come clean in the way I expected" about doping claims, talk show host Oprah Winfrey says. |
| Mali town 'still in rebel hands' Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:58 AM PST French military officials say the Malian army has not recaptured the central town of Konna, contradicting reports from Mali at the weekend. |
| India PM issues Pakistan warning Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:10 AM PST Indian PM Manmohan Singh says it "cannot be business as usual" with Pakistan after deadly exchanges along the disputed Kashmir border. |
| Cuba confirms cholera in Havana Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:33 AM PST Cuban health officials confirm that 51 people have contracted cholera in the capital, Havana, the biggest outbreak there in decades. |
| BA discriminated against Christian Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:40 AM PST British Airways employee Nadia Eweida suffered discrimination at work over her Christian beliefs, European judges rule, but three others lose their cases. |
| Thousands mourn Kurds in France Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:35 AM PST Thousands of Kurds attend a memorial near Paris for three activists shot dead in the city, amid reports of new Turkish air strikes on the PKK. |
| 'Stolen' train crashes into flats Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:31 AM PST A cleaning woman stole an empty commuter train in a suburb of Stockholm and crashed it into a house, injuring herself, Swedish officials say. |
| Greenland defiant on rare earths Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:38 AM PST Greenland says it will not favour the EU over China as major powers explore for rare earth minerals in the vast Arctic territory. |
| S African woman gored by rhino Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:52 AM PST A 24-year-old South African woman is gored by a rhino just moments after posing beside it for a photo. |
| Facebook unveils social search tools Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:24 AM PST Social networking giant Facebook unveils tools that let users search through all the information their friends have shared. |
| Corleone mayor in mafia apology Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:05 AM PST The mayor of the Sicilian town of Corleone, famous for its connections to the Cosa Nostra mafia, apologises to the victims of the criminal network. |
| Top US judge breaks court silence Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:57 AM PST US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has not asked a question in court since 2006, breaks his silence by uttering four words. |
| VIDEO: African elephant extinction fears Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:13 AM PST The Kenyan government has warned that an increase in poaching is edging the African elephant closer to extinction. |
| VIDEO: Ever wanted to ride a giant robot? Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:24 AM PST Spencer Kelly drives a giant robotic spider around Las Vegas. |
| VIDEO: 'Russia spies' on trial in Germany Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:45 AM PST A couple in Germany have gone on trial for spying for the former Soviet Union and then Russia, in what is being called one of the most intriguing cases since the end of the Cold War. |
| VIDEO: 100 car pile-up kills three in Sweden Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:52 AM PST At least three people are reported to have been killed when about 100 cars were involved in a motorway pile-up in heavy fog. |
| VIDEO: The thrills of illegal racing Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:56 AM PST Young men in Qatar with money, time and wheels to burn are turning to an illegal pastime to get their thrills - racing on public streets. |
| VIDEO: Brazil's shanty town property boom Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:38 AM PST Armed drug lords were seen as one of the worst threats to residents of Rio de Janeiro's shanty-towns or favelas. |
| VIDEO: Lagos v Paris: Rush hour challenge Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:46 AM PST BBC News sets out to find the world's most gridlocked cities. Tomi Oladipo in Lagos and Christian Fraser in Paris see how far they can get in an hour's drive through crowded streets. |
| Germany's economy slows sharply Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:49 AM PST The German economy grew by 0.7% in 2012, a sharp slowdown on the previous year, preliminary figures show. |
| US retail sales beat expectations Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:37 AM PST US retail sales rose in December by more than analysts had expected as Americans spent more on cars and home furnishings, figures show. |
| Paying by text to launch Spring 2014 Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:58 AM PST A database pairing phone numbers to bank accounts will launch in the UK in Spring 2014, allowing people to text money to each other. |
| Gun lobby releases shooting game Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:27 AM PST The National Rifle Association launches a shooting game - approved for young children - a month after the Sandy Hook tragedy. |
| Dan Brown to release new book in May Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:31 AM PST Dan Brown, bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, is to release a new book in May called Inferno. |
| Globes experiences audience boost Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:13 AM PST Sunday's broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles secured the event's biggest US audience in six years, it is reported. |
| Soot plays bigger role in warming Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:59 AM PST New research says that black carbon, or soot, is making a much larger contribution to global warming than previously recognised. |
| Patent surge reveals graphene race Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:04 PM PST A surge in research into the novel material graphene reveals an intensifying global contest to lead a potential industrial revolution. |
| Generic HIV drugs 'less effective' Posted: 14 Jan 2013 08:01 PM PST Any rise in the use of cheaper, non-branded HIV drugs could see more patients with treatment failure, doctors warn. |
| Regulate smoking 'like water' call Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:41 PM PST The UK government could raise at least £500m a year by capping the amount of profit tobacco companies can make from cigarettes, academics say. |
| McGinley handed Europe captaincy Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:14 AM PST Irishman Paul McGinley is named as Europe's captain for the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. |
| S Africa miner to cut 14,000 jobs Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:15 AM PST Anglo American Platinum says it will cease production at four mine shafts in the Rustenburg region of South Africa, which could lead to the loss of almost 14,000 jobs. |
| Genes link Australians with India Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:38 PM PST Far from being cut off from the rest of the world, Australia experienced a migration from India about 4,000 years ago, a study suggests. |
| Russia 'spies' in Germany trial Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:22 AM PST A married couple go on trial in Germany for spying for Russia over decades, in a case seen as one of the most intriguing cases since the Cold War. |
| Chavez deputy 'to give address' Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:34 AM PST Venezuela's Vice-President Nicolas Maduro will give Tuesday's state of the nation address in place of President Hugo Chavez who is recovering from cancer surgery in Cuba, officials say. |
| Iraqi MP killed by suicide bomber Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:51 AM PST A suicide bomber kills a Sunni member of Iraq's parliament, Eifan Saadoun al-Issawi, along with at least two bodyguards in Fallujah, officials say. |
| US House to hold Sandy aid vote Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:14 AM PST The US House is set to vote on aid to areas struck by October's 'super-storm' Sandy, amid opposition from conservatives criticising the spending. |
| Police pay to be cut by £4,000 Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:56 AM PST The starting salary for police constables in England and Wales is being cut by £4,000 to £19,000, Home Secretary Theresa May has confirmed. |
| Horsemeat found in beef burgers Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:56 AM PST Horse DNA has been found in some beef burgers being sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, Ireland's food safety body confirms. |
| No M5 crash manslaughter charge Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:13 AM PST Manslaughter charges are dropped against a fireworks display organiser after a crash on the M5 motorway left seven dead. |
| Man 'lost entire family' in blaze Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:11 AM PST A man whose entire family died in a tower block fire in south London tells an inquest "everything that I dreamed of was over in three hours". |
| 'Harry Potter Abbey' gets lit up Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:47 AM PST The cloisters at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire |
| Should Scrabble letter values change? Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:08 PM PST Are the letters Z and X worth too many points? |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:19 PM PST The mystery of an Italian hero's final resting place |
| African elephant poaching threatens wildlife future Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:49 PM PST China's appetite for ivory threatens African elephants' future |
| VIDEO: Tech start-ups remake Las Vegas Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:28 AM PST How an online shoe store is building Sin City's tech industry |
| Day in pictures: 15 January 2013 Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:46 AM PST Twenty-four hours of news photos from around the world |
| The Kurdish women who take up arms Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:59 AM PST How did women gain prominence in Kurds' fight with Turkey? |
| Edible edifice: The offices of tomorrow Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:05 PM PST The office buildings of the future will be intelligent - and tasty too |
| Fishing on the frontline amid South China Sea dispute Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:51 PM PST Dangerous times in the South China Sea |
| VIDEO: One million meditating children Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:23 PM PST Buddhist temple claims event will help change the world |
| Confusion surrounds Syria 'transition' Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:50 PM PST Lyse Doucet on what a Syria-led transition might mean |
| Is graphene really a wonder-material? Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:43 PM PST Will graphene live up to the hype, asks David Shukman |
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