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| Wednesday, 16 December, 2009, 4:00 GMT 04:00 +00:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Ministers take over climate talks Ministers try to break the deadlock at the Copenhagen climate conference amid threats of protests by environmentalists. |
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| Two UK soldiers die in bomb blast Two British and two Afghan soldiers are killed by a suspected suicide bomber while on patrol in Helmand province. | |
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| Cameron pledges green home grants More than three million homes could get grants worth up to £6,500 to improve energy efficiency if the Tories win power. | |
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| Lower speed limits for blackspots New advice to councils to cut the speed limit on roads with accident blackspots is being published by the government. | |
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| UK law probe after Livni warrant The government "urgently" considers legal reforms after a UK court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli politician Tzipi Livni. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | US jail to house Guantanamo men President Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay. |
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| Ministers take over climate talks Ministers try to break the deadlock at the Copenhagen climate conference amid threats of protests by environmentalists. | |
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| Boeing Dreamliner in first flight Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft successfully completes its first test flight in the US. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Uproar at S Leone woman chief bid Sierra Leone traditionalists besiege a woman's house and stop her going home after she launched a legal bid to become a chief. |
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| Summit moved to keep Bashir away A France-Africa summit is put back and moved to prevent Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attending. | |
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| Eritrea urges footballers' return The Eritrean footballers who have gone missing in Kenya are welcome to return home, a minister says. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| US jail to house Guantanamo men President Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay. |
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| Boeing Dreamliner in first flight Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft successfully completes its first test flight in the US. | |
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| US evangelist Oral Roberts dies Renowned US evangelist Oral Roberts, who pioneered religious broadcasting, dies in California at the age of 91. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | 'Ten killed' in Philippines clash At least nine rebels and one soldier are killed in fighting on southern Mindanao island, an army spokesman says. |
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| Australia introduces web filters Australia plans new laws forcing Internet Service Providers to filter out access to content that has been "refused classification". | |
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| China rejects releasing dissident China rejects calls from the US and the EU to release a prominent dissident as interference in its internal affairs. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| Ministers take over climate talks Ministers try to break the deadlock at the Copenhagen climate conference amid threats of protests by environmentalists. |
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| German probe into Afghan strike Germany opens an inquiry into a Nato strike in Afghanistan that killed 142 people, amid calls for the defence minister to resign. | |
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| Berlusconi sets 'love over hate' In his first message since an attack left him in hospital, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says love will triumph over hate. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Israel fury at UK's Livni warrant Israel condemns as "cynical" the issuing of a war crimes arrest warrant in the UK for former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. |
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| Iraq cities rocked by car bombs A series of car bombings in Iraq kill at least eight people and wound scores in Baghdad and Mosul. | |
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| Iran denies nuclear trigger claim Iran denies a report in the Times newspaper that it has been working on a key component of a nuclear bomb. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Deadly bombing in Pakistan town At least 27 people are killed in a bomb attack in the central Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan, officials say. |
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| Suicide bomb hits Afghan capital At least eight people die in a suicide bombing in Kabul, as President Hamid Karzai holds an anti-corruption meeting there. | |
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| India edge Sri Lanka in thriller India beat Sri Lanka by just three runs in a sensational first one-day international which saw the second-highest aggregate of runs scored in a limited overs game. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Cameron pledges green home grants More than three million homes could get grants worth up to £6,500 to improve energy efficiency if the Tories win power. |
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| Two UK soldiers die in bomb blast Two British and two Afghan soldiers are killed by a suspected suicide bomber while on patrol in Helmand province. | |
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| Lower speed limits for blackspots New advice to councils to cut the speed limit on roads with accident blackspots is being published by the government. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Anger over road deaths sentence Relatives of a former police inspector who killed four people while drink-driving in France criticise his suspended sentence. |
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| Met was dysfunctional, says chief The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police says parts of the force were "dysfunctional" before he took over. | |
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| 'Toxic parish' vicar sues church A vicar from Worcester who says he was forced out by parishioners who slashed his tyres and poisoned his dog takes his case to tribunal. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Man on 1981 child murder charge A 62-year-old man has been charged with the murder of schoolgirl Jennifer Cardy who was abducted and killed near Lisburn. |
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| Dead baby 'victim of sex abuse' A court hears 15-month-old Millie Martin may have been sexually assaulted as her mother's partner is charged with the murder. | |
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| Proposed prawn quota cut reduced The European Commission's proposed 30% cut in the 2010 prawn quota for NI's fishing fleets is reduced to 9%. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Response due over Nimrod tragedy The UK government is to give its detailed response to a highly critical report into the Nimrod crash which killed 14 men based at RAF Kinloss. |
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| Quota cuts lower in 'hard' talks European fisheries ministers finalise a deal with quota cuts and a deal for new scientific fishing trials. | |
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| Retail sales worst for six months The latest figures for November show that retail sales in Scotland grew at a much slower rate than the rest of the UK. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Cameron pledges green home grants More than three million homes could get grants worth up to £6,500 to improve energy efficiency if the Tories win power. |
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| UK law probe after Livni warrant The government "urgently" considers legal reforms after a UK court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli politician Tzipi Livni. | |
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| Protest over research funds plan University professors are to protest over planned changes in funding in England they say will threaten creative research. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | BA in legal challenge to strike British Airways is to take legal action to try to prevent a 12-day cabin crew strike set to begin on 22 December. |
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| Boeing Dreamliner in first flight Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft successfully completes its first test flight in the US. | |
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| Borders staff may go by Christmas All 1,100 staff at book chain Borders will lose their jobs on Christmas Eve unless a buyer is found this week, administrators warn. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Clooney film leads Globes chase Up In The Air, starring George Clooney, is leading the nominations at this year's Golden Globe awards. |
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| Rock anthem outselling McElderry Rage Against The Machine are leading The X Factor's Joe McElderry in the Christmas number one race, figures show. | |
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| Funeral held for Corrie's Jones A "beautiful and dignified" funeral service is held for Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones, who died earlier this month. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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| Ministers take over climate talks Ministers try to break the deadlock at the Copenhagen climate conference amid threats of protests by environmentalists. |
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| 'Super-Earths' orbit nearby stars Planet-hunters discover two "super-Earths" - rocky planets orbiting two nearby Sun-like stars. | |
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| Satellites weigh California water A Nasa satellite mission has weighed the water lost by the US State of California's heartland since 2003. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Australia introduces web filters Australia plans new laws forcing Internet Service Providers to filter out access to content that has been "refused classification". |
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| Teletext to close mid-December The Teletext information service will close in the island and across the UK on 16 December 2009 including flight information. | |
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| Ships tracked with smart software Monitoring of global shipping movements could help container vessels burn less fuel and speed up turnaround in port. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Medical school access 'no wider' Government attempts to increase the number of students from low-income families at medical school are failing, say doctors. |
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| Food hormone link to Alzheimer's High levels of a hormone that controls appetite are linked to a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's, research suggests. | |
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| Women have 'more sensitive touch' The sense of touch is more sensitive among women than men because their fingers are smaller, a study suggests. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Protest over research funds plan University professors are to protest over planned changes in funding in England they say will threaten creative research. |
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| Poor white boys struggle in GCSEs Poor white teenage boys in England have slipped further behind other youngsters in their GCSE results in this year's exams. | |
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| University must prove 'adequacy' London's biggest university may not receive extra funding unless it proves its "adequacy" after a finance crisis, it admits. | |
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| 1984: Gorbachev visit to Britain a 'success' Mikhail Gorbachev, the man widely tipped as the next leader of the Soviet Union, holds five hours of talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. | |||
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| 1969: MPs vote to abolish hanging MPs vote by a big majority for the permanent abolition of the death penalty for murder. | |||
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| 1955: Queen opens London Airport terminal Her Majesty inaugurates "The Queen's Building", part of the new central terminal area built to accommodate increasing numbers of air passengers. | |||
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