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- Nato urged to boost Libya effort
- Japan PM seeks to calm food fears
- Egypt's Mubarak taken to hospital
- Gbagbo moved out of Abidjan - UN
- Space travel 'Russia's priority'
- Pakistan 'seeks cut in CIA staff'
- France issues first fine for veil
- US must tackle deficit, says IMF
- 'Dozens injured' in Syrian port
- UN access to Wikileaks man 'blocked'
- Swazi police disperse protesters
- Penguins 'hit by krill decline'
- Air France jet clips plane in NY
- Pacific island defends royal wedding stamp that splits
- Man Utd v Chelsea (agg 1-0)
- Arsenal fans reject Kroenke offer
- Red Bull boss Horner backs Webber
- Surprise fall in inflation to 4%
- Men jailed for takeaway shooting
- New doubt cast over Chinook crash
- Ex-Libya aide leaves UK for Doha
- Pair guilty over baby sale plot
- Chainsaw murderer jailed for life
- Body-in-bin murder trial starts
- Crown to appeal police acquittal
- Two held over teens' 'gas deaths'
- Mother 'raped by bogus taxi man'
- Murder jury hears of knife rape
- Plaid's Dylan Thomas quote gaffe
- Woman withheld son's cancer drugs
- Two US soldiers 'killed by drone'
- More mass graves found in Mexico
- Opera composer Catan dies aged 62
- IAAF introduce new gender rules
- Elections 'have changed Nigeria'
- Belarus arrests bombing suspects
- EU urges Tunisia migration action
- Palestinians ready to govern: UN
- Iranian exiles 'must leave Iraq'
- Man jailed for DC metro bomb plot
- Indian telecom changes proposed
- Chinese church defies crackdown
- Indian PM Singh heading for China
- Cisco to shut down Flip cameras
- Tepco may face $23.6bn in claims
- High oil price 'affecting demand'
- Microsoft takes to the streetside
- Sony and Hotz settle hacking case
- Amazon sells ad-subsidised Kindle
- Debut novelists make Orange list
- Byrne settles election song case
- Rio flies to top of UK box office
- Japan raises nuclear crisis level
- Cannibal spiders are ladykillers
- Doctors 'don't follow own advice'
- Japan crisis: 'We want the truth'
- Ivory Coast head-to-head on Gbagbo arrest
- What if the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the Moon?
- The story of our rooms
- Is it OK to compliment a stranger?
- VIDEO: Air France plane in collision at JFK
- VIDEO: Inside Russia's Star City
- VIDEO: ISS crew mark space anniversary
- VIDEO: What's left of Laurent Gbabgo's compound
- VIDEO: Planes land on motorway in Taiwan
- VIDEO: Moussa Koussa breaks his silence
- VIDEO: Japan nuclear crisis level raised
- VIDEO: The Greek equivalant of the pyrmaids
- Treading carefully
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- Looking from afar
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- Thrown back
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| Nato urged to boost Libya effort Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:43 AM PDT Nato must intensify its air campaign in order to destroy heavy weaponry used by Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya, the French and UK foreign ministers say. |
| Japan PM seeks to calm food fears Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:54 AM PDT Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says food from the region near the stricken Fukushima plant is safe to eat despite radiation fears. |
| Egypt's Mubarak taken to hospital Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:34 AM PDT Deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is taken to hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, security sources say. |
| Gbagbo moved out of Abidjan - UN Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:38 AM PDT Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has been moved out of Abidjan a day after his arrest, a UN spokesman says. |
| Space travel 'Russia's priority' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:39 AM PDT Space exploration remains a priority for Russia, President Medvedev says, on the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin. |
| Pakistan 'seeks cut in CIA staff' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:15 AM PDT Pakistan has asked the US to reduce the number of CIA agents in the country and to limit drone strikes along the Afghan border, US media reports say. |
| France issues first fine for veil Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:31 AM PDT French police issue their first fine to a woman for covering her face with an Islamic veil, a day after a law banning face coverings comes into force. |
| US must tackle deficit, says IMF Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:33 AM PDT There is an urgent need for the US to tackle the deficit in the government's finances, an IMF report says. |
| 'Dozens injured' in Syrian port Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:11 AM PDT Dozens of people are injured in clashes in the Syrian port of Baniyas, where 13 people were killed on Saturday, residents say. |
| UN access to Wikileaks man 'blocked' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:49 AM PDT A UN torture investigator claims that US officials are denying him unmonitored access to alleged Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. |
| Swazi police disperse protesters Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:55 AM PDT Police in Swaziland use tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters calling for elections in Africa's last absolute monarchy. |
| Penguins 'hit by krill decline' Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:42 PM PDT A number of penguin species found in western Antarctica are declining as a result of a fall in the availability of krill, a study suggests. |
| Air France jet clips plane in NY Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:18 AM PDT An Air France jumbo jet clips the tail of a small commuter plane at a New York airport, causing it to spin violently but resulting in no injuries. |
| Pacific island defends royal wedding stamp that splits Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:46 AM PDT The leader of the Pacific nation of Niue defends stamps marking Britain's royal wedding which have a perforated line that splits the happy couple. |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:44 AM PDT Manchester United and Chelsea renew hostilities at Old Trafford on Tuesday with a place in the semi-final of the Champions League at stake. |
| Arsenal fans reject Kroenke offer Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:18 AM PDT The Arsenal Supporters' Trust votes not to sell its shares to American businessman Stan Kroenke, who has tabled a mandatory offer for full control of the club. |
| Red Bull boss Horner backs Webber Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:09 AM PDT Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Mark Webber will enjoy a successful season after his impressive recovery to secure fourth place in Malaysia. |
| Surprise fall in inflation to 4% Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:42 AM PDT Inflation unexpectedly slowed to 4% in March due to lower food prices, after supermarkets cut prices during a difficult time for retailers. |
| Men jailed for takeaway shooting Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:53 AM PDT Two men are jailed for murdering a 16-year-old girl who was shot when gang members fired indiscriminately at an east London pizza shop. |
| New doubt cast over Chinook crash Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT Documents obtained by the BBC suggest the RAF had concerns over the airworthiness of Chinooks two years before Mull of Kintyre crash. |
| Ex-Libya aide leaves UK for Doha Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:18 AM PDT Libya's former foreign minister Moussa Koussa, who fled the Gaddafi regime and sought asylum in the UK, has left for Qatar, the Foreign Office says. |
| Pair guilty over baby sale plot Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:55 AM PDT Two baby traffickers from London are found guilty of trying to sell an 11-month-old girl as a slave. |
| Chainsaw murderer jailed for life Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:44 AM PDT A man who murdered and dismembered the body of his wife at their Norfolk home is jailed for life. |
| Body-in-bin murder trial starts Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:51 AM PDT A man goes on trial accused of murdering a woman whose remains were found in a bin in Edinburgh 16 months after her death. |
| Crown to appeal police acquittal Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:13 AM PDT The Crown is to appeal the acquittal of the former head of road policing for Grampian on dangerous driving allegations. |
| Two held over teens' 'gas deaths' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:19 AM PDT Police are questioning two men, aged 40 and 49 years old, about the deaths of two teenagers from carbon monoxide poisoning last summer. |
| Mother 'raped by bogus taxi man' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:43 AM PDT A young mother in Londonderry has told police she was raped by a bogus taxi driver in the early hours of Sunday morning |
| Murder jury hears of knife rape Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:13 AM PDT A masked gunman cornered five teenagers in a field in 1996 and raped one of them, a murder jury is told. |
| Plaid's Dylan Thomas quote gaffe Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:18 AM PDT Plaid admits it mistakenly attributed the title of its manifesto to Dylan Thomas when it was really the work of a retired social worker. |
| Woman withheld son's cancer drugs Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:54 AM PDT A Massachusetts woman is convicted of attempted murder for withholding cancer drugs from her autistic son, who died aged nine. |
| Two US soldiers 'killed by drone' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:39 AM PDT A drone missile strike is suspected of killing two US soldiers by mistake in southern Afghanistan last week, US military officials say. |
| More mass graves found in Mexico Posted: 11 Apr 2011 03:24 PM PDT Mexican officials find another 16 bodies in mass graves in Tamaulipas state, close to where they discovered 72 bodies last week. |
| Opera composer Catan dies aged 62 Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:57 AM PDT Mexican composer Daniel Catan, best known for his operatic adaptation of Italian film Il Postino for the Los Angeles Opera, dies aged 62. |
| IAAF introduce new gender rules Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:16 AM PDT The IAAF approves new regulations to clarify hyperandrogenism issues following the gender row over South African runner Caster Semenya in 2009. |
| Elections 'have changed Nigeria' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:39 AM PDT Preliminary parliamentary poll results revealing big losses for the ruling party show Nigeria "has changed", an analyst tells the BBC. |
| Belarus arrests bombing suspects Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:21 AM PDT Several people have been arrested in Belarus following a bombing on the Minsk metro that killed 12 people and injured 126, prosecutors say. |
| EU urges Tunisia migration action Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:28 AM PDT The European Commission's president says Tunisia must do more to prevent migrants entering Europe illegally, and readmit its citizens who have done so. |
| Palestinians ready to govern: UN Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:47 AM PDT The Palestinian government in the West Bank is now largely ready to govern a state, a United Nations report says. |
| Iranian exiles 'must leave Iraq' Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:17 PM PDT Iraq's government says members of an Iranian exile group must leave the country by the end of the year, after deadly clashes with security forces. |
| Man jailed for DC metro bomb plot Posted: 11 Apr 2011 01:50 PM PDT A US citizen originally from Pakistan is jailed for 23 years after admitting joining what he thought was a plot to bomb the Washington DC Metro system. |
| Indian telecom changes proposed Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:37 PM PDT India's telecom minister, Kapil Sibal, proposes changes to telecom policy in an attempt to streamline the industry. |
| Chinese church defies crackdown Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:50 AM PDT An unofficial Chinese church says it will continue to hold outdoor services, after the authorities detained more than 100 worshippers on Sunday. |
| Indian PM Singh heading for China Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:21 AM PDT Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to China as the two Asian economies look to increase economic ties. |
| Cisco to shut down Flip cameras Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:46 AM PDT Cisco Systems is shutting down its Flip video camera business as it overhauls its consumer products unit. |
| Tepco may face $23.6bn in claims Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:43 AM PDT Tokyo Electric Power Company may face as much as 2 trillion yen ($23.6bn) in compensation claims, according to JP Morgan. |
| High oil price 'affecting demand' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:55 AM PDT The high price of oil is beginning to affect demand for energy, according to the International Energy Agency. |
| Microsoft takes to the streetside Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:11 AM PDT The tech giant launches rival to StreetView and reveals it will map wi-fi data. |
| Sony and Hotz settle hacking case Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:41 AM PDT Sony has settled its lawsuit with an American hacker who unlocked the secure operating system on the PS3. |
| Amazon sells ad-subsidised Kindle Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:39 AM PDT Retail giant Amazon has announced a cheaper version of its popular Kindle device which displays adverts to users. |
| Debut novelists make Orange list Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:26 AM PDT Three first-time novelists, including former Sesame Street scriptwriter Kathleen Winter, make this year's Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist. |
| Byrne settles election song case Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:38 AM PDT Singer David Byrne reaches a legal settlement with Florida's former governor over the unauthorised use of a Talking Heads song in an election campaign. |
| Rio flies to top of UK box office Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:11 AM PDT Animated comedy Rio, about a birdnapped parrot's adventures in Brazil, tops the UK and Ireland box office with first weekend takings of £1.5m. |
| Japan raises nuclear crisis level Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:08 AM PDT Japan raises the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest level, but says radiation leakage is a 10th of that from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. |
| Cannibal spiders are ladykillers Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:23 AM PDT In a unique role reversal, male wolf spiders cannibalise older females due to harsh habitats, scientists find. |
| Doctors 'don't follow own advice' Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:43 PM PDT Many doctors recommend to their patients treatments that they would not pick for themselves, a study suggests. |
| Japan crisis: 'We want the truth' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:23 AM PDT Japan residents reflect on an increase in the nuclear threat level. |
| Ivory Coast head-to-head on Gbagbo arrest Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:38 AM PDT Pro-Ouattara and pro-Gbagbo supporters react to the former president's arrest and debate what comes next for the country. |
| What if the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the Moon? Posted: 11 Apr 2011 04:09 PM PDT The BBC's Pallab Ghosh looks at what might have been if the USSR had beaten the US to put the first man on the Moon. |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:32 AM PDT What does the number and type of rooms say about how houses have evolved over the centuries? |
| Is it OK to compliment a stranger? Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:39 AM PDT It's human nature to sometimes find a passing stranger attractive, but is it ever OK to act on it? |
| VIDEO: Air France plane in collision at JFK Posted: 12 Apr 2011 07:51 AM PDT Amateur footage has captured the moment when an Air France A380, taxiing along the runway of JFK Airport, clipped the wing of a smaller Comair CRJ jet, sending it in a spin. |
| VIDEO: Inside Russia's Star City Posted: 11 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT A look inside Star City, where Russian cosmonauts train to go into space - just as Yuri Gagarin did. |
| VIDEO: ISS crew mark space anniversary Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:52 AM PDT The crew on board the International Space Station has spoken about what living and working in orbit is like, 50 years to the day from the first manned spaceflight. |
| VIDEO: What's left of Laurent Gbabgo's compound Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:03 AM PDT Footage of the interior of Laurent Gbagbo's Abidjan compound shows little left of value following looting after his capture on Monday. |
| VIDEO: Planes land on motorway in Taiwan Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT The Taiwanese military have landed various craft on a motorway in an exercise simulating an attack on the country's airfields. |
| VIDEO: Moussa Koussa breaks his silence Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:11 PM PDT Moussa Koussa - the most high profile defector from the Libyan regime - has spoken publicly for the first time since he arrived in Britain. |
| VIDEO: Japan nuclear crisis level raised Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:55 PM PDT Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of their nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven - previously only used for Chernobyl. |
| VIDEO: The Greek equivalant of the pyrmaids Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:44 AM PDT Archaeologists have determined that Alexander's Macedonians were not only great warriors but revolutionary builders as well |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:57 AM PDT Why France's involvement in Ivory Coast is so sensitive |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:51 AM PDT All we can do is wait and pray, say Yemeni women |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:51 AM PDT America's curious love affair with Britain's royals |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:15 AM PDT A selection of eye-catching images from around the world |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:36 AM PDT Pirates caught by Royal Navy given food, tea, and nicotine patches before release |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:26 AM PDT Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard on her return to French cinema |
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