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| Wednesday, 31 March, 2010, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Breast screening 'is beneficial' Breast cancer screening does more good than harm even if some women have unnecessary surgery, a large study concludes. |
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| Serbia offers Srebrenica apology The Serbian parliament condemns the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, ending years of denial. | |
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| Thousands without power amid snow Thousands of people are left without power after heavy spring snowfall causes disruption in Northern Ireland and Scotland. | |
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| Wales completing digital switch Wales becomes the first nation in the UK to go completely digital as the analogue TV signal is switched off. | |
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| Rail bosses plan strike challenge Network Rail is due to go to court in a bid to stop next week's planned rail strike taking place. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Serbia offers Srebrenica apology The Serbian parliament condemns the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, ending years of denial. |
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| PM Putin demands bombers caught Vladimir Putin says catching the organisers of Monday's Moscow suicide attacks is a "matter of honour" for the security services. | |
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| Colombia rebels release hostage A Colombian army sergeant is released by Marxist rebels and reunited with his family after 12 years in captivity. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Zimbabwe farmers win SA property South African authorities hand over the ownership documents of a Zimbabwe government house to white farmers. |
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| Semenya vows to race this season World 800m champion Caster Semenya says she will race again this season, hours after being told to wait for results of her gender-verification tests to be revealed. | |
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| Sharia court confirms Twitter ban A Sharia court in northern Nigeria permanently bans a civil rights group from debating punishment amputations on the internet. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Colombia rebels release hostage A Colombian army sergeant is released by Marxist rebels and reunited with his family after 12 years in captivity. |
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| US-French push for Iran sanctions President Obama and French President Sarkozy vow to push for tougher nuclear sanctions against Iran. | |
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| Ricky Martin announces he is gay Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin announces he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Diver dies at S Korea rescue site A South Korean military diver searching for survivors from a warship that sank after a mysterious explosion dies. |
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| Barbs traded over Rio Tinto case China and Australia trade criticism in the wake of the jailing of four Rio Tinto executives for corruption. | |
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| Stalemate at Thai red-shirt talks Thailand's opposition red-shirt protest leaders say peace talks with the government have stopped, for the moment. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| Serbia offers Srebrenica apology The Serbian parliament condemns the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, ending years of denial. |
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| France advised against veil ban France's State Council says any total ban on face-covering Islamic veils could be unconstitutional. | |
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| Collapse at Nero's golden palace Part of the ceiling over the palace of the Roman emperor Nero in Rome collapses, prompting concern over the site's stability. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Allawi accuses Iran over election Iyad Allawi, the man who won Iraq's parliamentary elections, accuses Iran of trying to prevent him from becoming prime minister. |
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| Death penalty over Kuwaiti fire A 23-year-old woman is sentenced to death in Kuwait for starting a deadly blaze at her former husband's wedding. | |
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| Iran diplomat 'freed in Pakistan' An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Pakistan in 2008 is freed and returned to Iran, Iranian diplomatic sources say. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | UN report on Bhutto death delayed A United Nations report into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is delayed until mid-April at Pakistan's request. |
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| Pakistan court in corruption vow Pakistan's Supreme Court says it will jail the head of the country's anti-corruption agency unless he reopens corruption cases. | |
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| India guru quits after sex claims A Hindu holy man in India quits as head of a religious organisation after police launch a probe into allegations of obscenity. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Thousands without power amid snow Thousands of people are left without power after heavy spring snowfall causes disruption in Northern Ireland and Scotland. |
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| Breast screening 'is beneficial' Breast cancer screening does more good than harm even if some women have unnecessary surgery, a large study concludes. | |
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| Wales completing digital switch Wales becomes the first nation in the UK to go completely digital as the analogue TV signal is switched off. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Reward in hunt for alley killers Detectives offer a £50,000 reward in the hunt for the killers of a Salford teenager who died before the birth of his twin sons. |
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| Man summoned over Milly murder An ex-doorman is summoned to appear in court on charges of kidnapping and murdering 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002. | |
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| Olympic budget 'worryingly tight' The London 2012 Olympics project is in a "worryingly tight" financial position, a committee of MPs warns. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Bad weather causing NI disruption About 30,000 homes in Northern Ireland are without power as severe weather hits a range of services. |
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| Robinson bought 'key land' for £5 Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, and his wife, bought a valuable piece of land from a property developer for £5. | |
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| UUP 'disappointed' at resignation Ulster Unionist MLA for North Down, Alan McFarland, resigns from the party just five days after Lady Sylvia Hermon. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Blizzard warning over heavy snow Strong winds and heavy snow are causing blizzard conditions across large parts of Scotland. |
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| Lockerbie response 'disjointed' Opposition parties step up calls for the medical evidence behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber to be published in full. | |
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| Analogue TV end dates announced A date has been announced for the end of analogue television in Scotland, after the Borders became the first area affected. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Eighth expenses file given to CPS The Metropolitan Police says it has passed a new file of evidence relating to Parliamentary expenses to the Crown Prosecution Service. |
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| Blair praises Brown's 'boldness' Tony Blair enters the pre-election fray, praising Gordon Brown's leadership in a speech to Labour members in his old constituency. | |
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| Social care 'levy for everyone' A compulsory levy should be introduced to fund a universal social care system for adults in England, Labour says. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Sky faces Ofcom price cap ruling Ofcom is expected to rule later that Sky must cap the prices it charges rivals to show its premium sport and film channels. |
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| Scrappage scheme comes to an end The UK scrappage scheme helped carmakers sell 300,000 more cars than they would have done otherwise, figures suggest. | |
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| Call to clean up cash Isa market A watchdog wants an investigation into the use of temporary headline interest rates to attract savers to cash Isas. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Banksy in world exhibition top 30 An exhibition by graffiti artist Banksy was one of the top 30 most-visited global exhibitions last year, figures show. |
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| Mills nanny was 'like daughter' Heather Mills tells an employment tribunal that she treated her former nanny "like a daughter". | |
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| Ricky Martin announces he is gay Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin announces he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Collider sees high-energy success The Large Hadron Collider marks a new era in science as it achieves record-breaking high-energy particle collisions. |
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| 'Roadrunner' dinosaur discovered One the smallest and most agile dinosaurs yet discovered is unearthed in China. | |
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| Probe sees 'Pac-man in the moon' The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn catches an interesting new view of the tiny moon Mimas. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Technical error hits Google China Google says that a problem with its Chinese service was an internal error rather than an official block, as reports had suggested. |
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| Sony disables PlayStation feature Sony says it will disable features of its PlayStation 3 in a move some consider to be a re-emptive strike to guard against piracy. | |
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| Greenpeace warns on data centres Greenpeace calls on technology companies to use more renewable energy sources to power their data centres. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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| Breast screening 'is beneficial' Breast cancer screening does more good than harm even if some women have unnecessary surgery, a large study concludes. |
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| New meningitis jab for travellers Travellers can have a new vaccine which protects against strains of meningitis predominant in sub-Saharan Africa. | |
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| Social care 'levy for everyone' A compulsory levy should be introduced to fund a universal social care system for adults in England, Labour says. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Teaching support 'raises results' Increasing the number of teaching assistants in a school boosts results, a report suggests. |
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| School smacking loophole closed Smacking is to be banned for anyone working with children outside the family, closing a loophole for part-time schools. | |
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| Teachers bullied by 'hate sites' Pupils are using social networking sites to bully their teachers, a teachers' conference has been told. | |
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| 1966: Harold Wilson wins sweeping victory Labour is on course to win the general election with a majority of about 100 seats in the House of Commons. | |||
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| 1986: Greater London Council abolished Thousands of people take part in festivities to mark the historic final hours of 97 years of local rule in London. | |||
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| 1959: Dalai Lama escapes to India The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India after an epic 15-day journey on foot over the Himalayan mountains. | |||
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