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| Thursday, 03 December, 2009, 4:00 GMT 04:00 +00:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Concern over council social care Eight local authorities are told to improve social care for adults, in an annual report which finds overall improvement in services. |
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| Obama officials push Afghan surge Top US officials build support for the Afghan troop surge, a day after President Obama set out his new strategy. | |
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| Web limit on 'name and shaming' Police forces that "name and shame" criminals must remove the details from websites after a month, new rules say. | |
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| Fund family planning 'to cut CO2' Improving family planning in poor nations is a more effective way to cut CO2 emissions than wind turbines, a new initiative claims. | |
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| Errors in hospital prescriptions Nearly one in 10 hospital prescriptions contain a mistake, ranging from the minor to the potentially lethal, research finds. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Obama officials push Afghan surge Top US officials build support for the Afghan troop surge, a day after President Obama set out his new strategy. |
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| Honduras Congress rejects Zelaya The Honduran Congress votes against allowing deposed President Manuel Zelaya to serve out his remaining two months in office. | |
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| World Bank in India Ganges loan The World Bank agrees to loan India $1bn (£600m) to clean up the Ganges, one of the world's most polluted rivers. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria leader faces call to quit An influential group of Nigerians urge the president to resign on the grounds of ill-health, but ministers reject the call. |
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| Gambari to head Darfur UN mission Nigerian diplomat Ibrahim Gambari is the new head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the UN has announced. | |
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| Zimbabwe predicts economic upturn Zimbabwe's first budget since its unity government began sharing power 10 months ago predicts a healthy economic future. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Obama officials push Afghan surge Top US officials build support for the Afghan troop surge, a day after President Obama set out his new strategy. |
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| Honduras Congress rejects Zelaya The Honduran Congress votes against allowing deposed President Manuel Zelaya to serve out his remaining two months in office. | |
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| Woods admits letting family down Golf star Tiger Woods apologises to his family for his "transgressions" amid continuing speculation about his private life following a car crash. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Manila pulls massacre area police The Philippine government moves to replace the entire police force of a southern province where 57 people were massacred. |
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| Indonesia 'bans' East Timor film Indonesia bans the film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor. | |
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| Marcos to run in Philippine poll The former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, registers as a candidate for congress in next year's elections. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Nato pledges 5,000 Afghan troops Nato's secretary general says members will do "substantially more" to fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. |
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| New EU regulation deal agreed European Union finance ministers agree plans for a new Europe-wide system of financial regulation, despite UK concerns. | |
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| L'Oreal family fight over fortune The daughter of Europe's richest woman asks a court to stop her giving away her money. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Yacht skipper speaks of 'mistake' One of the British yachtsmen detained in Iran has admitted they strayed into Iranian waters by "mistake". |
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| Iran to enrich uranium 'to 20%' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country will enrich its uranium to higher levels, despite international pressure to stop. | |
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| Jerusalem residency losses rise Israel stripped a record number of Palestinians of their right to live in East Jerusalem last year, an Israeli rights group says. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Obama officials push Afghan surge Top US officials build support for the Afghan troop surge, a day after President Obama set out his new strategy. |
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| World Bank in India Ganges loan The World Bank agrees to loan India $1bn (£600m) to clean up the Ganges, one of the world's most polluted rivers. | |
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| Bomber targets Pakistan navy HQ A suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Pakistani navy headquarters in Islamabad, killing a security officer. | |
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| UK | |
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| Concern over council social care Eight local authorities are told to improve social care for adults, in an annual report which finds overall improvement in services. |
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| Web limit on 'name and shaming' Police forces that "name and shame" criminals must remove the details from websites after a month, new rules say. | |
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| Errors in hospital prescriptions Nearly one in 10 hospital prescriptions contain a mistake, ranging from the minor to the potentially lethal, research finds. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Drug convict held at Thai airport Sandra Gregory, the Briton who was jailed in Thailand for drug smuggling, is held at Bangkok airport after trying to return to the country. |
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| Labour man dropped for Queen slur A Labour Party panel removes from a list of candidates a would-be local councillor who called the Queen "vermin". | |
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| TV lies expert fibbed to police A lie detector expert on the Jeremy Kyle Show is given a suspended prison sentence - for lying to police in a speeding case. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Man held after m-way bullets find A 33-year-old man from Northern Ireland is being questioned by Irish police following an ammunition find. |
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| Justice impasse risks devolution Northern Ireland's political institutions are unsustainable if they are not based on equality, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said. | |
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| Seven held after youths attacked Seven teenagers have been arrested after a disturbance in Belfast city centre police have said, police have said. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | New education man facing critics Scotland's new education secretary, Mike Russell, is to face opposition parties at Holyrood amid schooling concerns. |
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| Turnberry upgrade plans in doubt The future of Turnberry's redevelopment is uncertain after the hotel's owner asked for more time to repay billions of dollars. | |
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| Toddlers burned by straighteners Scotland's largest health authority launches a campaign to protect children from serious burns from hair straighteners. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | MPs given fresh expenses appeal MPs will be allowed to appeal against repaying expenses judged to have been overclaimed, says a Commons committee. |
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| Tories accused of prisons U-turn The Conservatives are accused of a U-turn on their pledge, made last March, to build 5,000 new prison places. | |
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| PM 'should have called snap poll' "In hindsight" Gordon Brown should have called a general election in the autumn of 2007, says Jack Straw. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Bank of America to repay bail-out Bank of America says it plans to repay its $45bn (£27bn) US government bailout and raise capital in the next few days. |
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| Building societies agree merger The Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies confirm plans to merge, creating a society with 2.7 million members. | |
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| US private sector job cuts down US private sector job cuts narrow in November for the eighth consecutive month to 169,000, according to a survey. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Street actress Jones dies aged 75 Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones - Blanche Hunt in the soap - dies in hospital at the age of 75. |
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| Susan Boyle sets US chart record Susan Boyle tops the US charts with I Dreamed A Dream, setting a first-week sales record for a female debut album. | |
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| MySpace Music launches in the UK MySpace launches a UK version of its music service in a bid to compete with Spotify and Last Fm. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Fund family planning 'to cut CO2' Improving family planning in poor nations is a more effective way to cut CO2 emissions than wind turbines, a new initiative claims. |
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| Dream space missions' cost alert Europe's scientists pitching ideas for their ideal space missions are warned about likely cost overruns. | |
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| Pandas 'chirp' to get pregnant Female giant pandas make chirping sounds to advertise their fertility to males, a study finds. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Web giants oppose copyright plans Web firms including Facebook and Google write to Peter Mandelson, objecting to elements of the Digital Economy bill. |
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| Google to limit free news access Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read free through its search engine. | |
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| Malware 'behind Windows problem' Microsoft says that a problem with its Windows operating system, dubbed the 'Black Screen of Death' is not due to its latest security update. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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| Concern over council social care Eight local authorities are told to improve social care for adults, in an annual report which finds overall improvement in services. |
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| US approves 'ethical' stem cells US regulators approve 13 new lines of human embryonic stem cells for use in federally funded scientific research. | |
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| Errors in hospital prescriptions Nearly one in 10 hospital prescriptions contain a mistake, ranging from the minor to the potentially lethal, research finds. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Students 'unaware' of bursaries Many students and their families do not know about bursaries designed to help the less well-off, research suggests. |
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| Parents' evenings fail to connect Parents' evenings all too often end with parents having no clear idea of how their children are doing at school, claims a survey. | |
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| UK 'behind in qualification race' The UK is being overtaken in the international race for a well-qualified workforce, a report from a lecturers' union says. | |
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| 1984: Hundreds die in Bhopal chemical accident A dense cloud of lethal gas escapes from a chemical factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal, killing hundreds of people. | |||
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| 1992: Bomb explosions in Manchester Emergency services are dealing with casualties at the scene of two bomb blasts in the centre of Manchester. | |||
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| 1989: Malta summit ends Cold War The leaders of the two world superpowers declare an end to the Cold War after two days of storm-lashed talks at the Malta summit. | |||
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