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| Saturday, 17 October, 2009, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. |
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| 'Torture' ruling to be appealed The government will appeal a court ruling that US documents detailing the alleged torture of an ex-UK resident can be released. | |
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| US swine flu vaccines 'delayed' US officials warn of delays swine flu vaccine delays as deaths from the virus spread, hitting children especially hard. | |
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| CWU chief warns of extra strikes The postal workers' union's head says he is prepared to stage further industrial action before Christmas. | |
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| SNP plan to influence Westminster Alex Salmond is to outline details of his plan for the SNP to wield greater influence at Westminster at the party's annual conference. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | North Korean diplomat to visit US A senior North Korean diplomat is to be allowed a rare visit to the US later this month, officials say, with "informal" meetings planned. |
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| Ousted Honduras head has deadline Ousted Honduras President Zelaya will give talks with the interim government two more days to reach agreement. | |
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| Maldives cabinet set to submerge Maldives ministers are to hold an underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday to highlight the effects of climate change. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | MDC boycotting Zimbabwe cabinet Zimbabwe's PM says his party is suspending its participation in government, as a court orders the release of an MDC official. |
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| Bongo calls for 'elite renewal' New President Ali Ben Bongo, son of long-time leader Omar Bongo, says Gabon's elites should be renewed. | |
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| Ghana triumphant at U20 World Cup Ten-man Ghana triumph at the Under-20 World Cup with a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over Brazil. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Ousted Honduras head has deadline Ousted Honduras President Zelaya will give talks with the interim government two more days to reach agreement. |
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| US swine flu vaccines 'delayed' US officials warn of delays swine flu vaccine delays as deaths from the virus spread, hitting children especially hard. | |
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| US balloon boy case 'not a hoax' Colorado police say there is no indication the family of a boy thought to have been carried away by a balloon was hoaxing. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| North Korean diplomat to visit US A senior North Korean diplomat is to be allowed a rare visit to the US later this month, officials say, with "informal" meetings planned. |
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| Sydney terror suspects convicted A jury in Australia finds five men guilty of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks, after one of the country's longest trials. | |
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| US criticises 'inflexible yuan' The US Treasury criticises China for what it describes as the lack of flexibility of the Chinese currency, the yuan. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Opel's German aid may break rules Brussels warns Germany's planned state aid for Opel may breach competition rules, raising the prospect of its sale being halted. |
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| Bosnian Serb jailed for genocide A former Bosnian Serb army officer is jailed for genocide over the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. | |
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| Spain set for anti-abortion rally Thousands of people are expected to rally in Madrid against plans to liberalise Spain's abortion laws. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | UN backs Gaza 'war crimes' report The UN Human Rights Council backs a report into Israel's Gaza offensive accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. |
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| Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Iraqi asylum seekers returned to Baghdad by the UK government are refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. | |
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| Court claim over camel 'beauty' A Saudi camel owner sues oil giant Saudi Aramco for $250,000 after a prized beast falls into a hole in the desert. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Deadly bomb shakes Pakistani city At least 12 people have died in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say, a day after a string of attacks. |
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| Maldives cabinet set to submerge Maldives ministers are to hold an underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday to highlight the effects of climate change. | |
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| Mixed messages in hunger report Brazil and China are praised, and India criticised, in a new report on efforts to tackle hunger, published on UN World Food Day. | |
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| UK | |
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| HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. |
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| 'Torture' ruling to be appealed The government will appeal a court ruling that US documents detailing the alleged torture of an ex-UK resident can be released. | |
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| Fans to gather for Gately funeral Celebrities and fans are due to pay their respects at the funeral of former Boyzone star Stephen Gately. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Vicar who raped young boys jailed A vicar from West Yorkshire is jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of raping two boys and sexually attacking others. |
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| Baby's body found at waste site The body of a newborn baby boy is discovered in a black bin liner by a worker at a Lincolnshire waste site. | |
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| Tube worker suspended over rant A Tube worker is suspended after footage of him ranting at an elderly passenger emerges. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Woman injured in car bomb attack A police officer's partner is injured after a bomb explodes under her car as she leaves a house in Belfast. |
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| Major jobs announcement expected A major jobs announcement is expected next week following the recent visit of US Hillary Clinton to Northern Ireland. | |
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| Shots fired during kidnap attempt Police fire two shots and arrest four men during a foiled kidnap bid in County Antrim. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | SNP plan to influence Westminster Alex Salmond is to outline details of his plan for the SNP to wield greater influence at Westminster at the party's annual conference. |
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| Call to give children greater say A children's charity is to gather the views of young people across Scotland with the aim of giving them a greater voice in society. | |
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| 136,000 hens die after break-in A break-in at a poultry farm near Edinburgh causes 136,000 hens to die from suffocation, police reveal. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. |
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| SNP plan to influence Westminster Alex Salmond is to outline details of his plan for the SNP to wield greater influence at Westminster at the party's annual conference. | |
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| Speaker defiant in 'gagging row' Speaker John Bercow defends the freedom of Parliament to debate what it chooses amid a row over injunctions covering Parliament. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Opel's German aid may break rules Brussels warns Germany's planned state aid for Opel may breach competition rules, raising the prospect of its sale being halted. |
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| Bank of America reports $1bn loss Bank of America, the fourth big US bank to report, says it made a $1bn (£612m) net loss from July to September. | |
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| Halifax estate agents sold for £1 Lloyds Banking Group sells its loss-making Halifax estate agency for £1 to LSL Property Services and says up to 460 jobs will go. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Fans to gather for Gately funeral Celebrities and fans are due to pay their respects at the funeral of former Boyzone star Stephen Gately. |
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| Police target hip-hop nightclubs Hip-hop nightclubs in London will face police scrutiny after a rethink of a strategy to prevent crime and violence at music events. | |
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| Sugababes' Amelle 'in a clinic' Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah is admitted to a private health clinic suffering "from a severe bout of nervous exhaustion". | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. |
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| Hare coursers 'flout Hunting Act' A BBC investigation suggests illegal hare coursing is on the rise despite its ban under the 2004 Hunting Act. | |
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| Bad memories written with lasers Scientists use lasers to write bad memories onto the brains of flies, revealing some of the brain circuitry responsible for learning. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay Uruguay has given 362,000 primary children laptops which run on a Linux desktop. |
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| ISP in file-sharing wi-fi theft TalkTalk has been an outspoken critic of UK government piracy plans and now it sets out to prove why. | |
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| Confused message on UK broadband As Finland makes broadband 'a legal right' the UK government appears to toughen up its broadband plans. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Warning over fibroids treatment UK doctors are warning that one of the newer treatments for heavy periods caused by fibroids can seriously harm any subsequent pregnancy. |
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| 'No post-jab paracetamol' advice Routinely giving paracetamol to babies after vaccinations may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, research suggests. | |
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| Foetal kick charts 'inaccurate' Foetal kick charts, used to check a pregnancy's healthy progress, are inaccurate and should not be used, Irish researchers say. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Delay formal lessons 'to age six' A major review of primary education calls for children's formal learning to be delayed until they reach the age of six. |
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| Open-plan school hearing problems The acoustics of new schools will have to be improved after warnings open-plan designs make hearing difficult. | |
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| Fewer than half get GCSE minimum Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five "good passes" including maths and English. | |
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| 1989: Earthquake hits San Francisco A powerful earthquake rocks San Francisco killing nine people and injuring hundreds. | |||
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| 2000: Four dead in Hatfield rail crash Four people are killed when a high speed passenger train derails in Hatfield, just north of London. | |||
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| 1980: Pope welcomes Queen to the Vatican The Queen makes the first state visit to the Vatican by a British monarch and is received by the Pope. | |||
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