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| Wednesday, 02 June, 2010, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Israel to free flotilla activists Israel says it will release and deport foreigners seized on board an aid flotilla trying to break its blockade of Gaza. |
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| Watchdog backs alcohol price hike A health watchdog has added its voice to calls for a minimum price per unit of alcohol in England. | |
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| Japan's PM Yukio Hatoyama resigns Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns amid pressure from his party to step down ahead of elections due in July. | |
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| Karzai to host Afghan peace talks Some 1,600 Afghan elders and notables gather for peace talks in Kabul, as the Taliban threatens delegates with death. | |
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| US begins criminal probe of spill Oil firm BP says its latest attempt to cap the oil spill is under way, as the US government announces a criminal investigation. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| Israel to free flotilla activists Israel says it will release and deport foreigners seized on board an aid flotilla trying to break its blockade of Gaza. |
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| Japan's PM Yukio Hatoyama resigns Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns amid pressure from his party to step down ahead of elections due in July. | |
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| US begins criminal probe of spill Oil firm BP says its latest attempt to cap the oil spill is under way, as the US government announces a criminal investigation. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Namibians sue over sterilisation Three women in Namibia are suing the state for allegedly being sterilised without their informed consent after an HIV diagnosis. |
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| Trafigura toxic waste trial opens Dutch prosecutors accuse multi-national oil trading firm Trafigura of illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast in 2006. | |
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| Burundi ex-rebel chief quits poll Five opposition candidates, including Burundi's ex-rebel leader Agathon Rwasa, pull out of forthcoming presidential elections. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | US begins criminal probe of spill Oil firm BP says its latest attempt to cap the oil spill is under way, as the US government announces a criminal investigation. |
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| Cuban prisoners 'begin transfers' Cuba has begun transferring political prisoners to jails closer to their homes, a human rights activist says. | |
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| Gores to separate after 40 years Former US Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper say they are are separating after 40 years of marriage. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Japan's PM Yukio Hatoyama resigns Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns amid pressure from his party to step down ahead of elections due in July. |
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| Thailand debates Bangkok violence The Thai parliament debates the government's operation to end protests in the capital, Bangkok, ahead of a no-confidence vote. | |
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| Judges shot dead at China court Three judges are shot dead in China's Hunan province by a man armed with a submachine gun who later killed himself, say reports. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| Doubt cast on Israel raid account Activists on ships raided by Israeli commandos cast doubt on Israel's version of events that led to at least nine deaths. |
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| Poland publishes crash transcript Poland publishes a transcript of flight data recorders from the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others. | |
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| Trafigura toxic waste trial opens Dutch prosecutors accuse multi-national oil trading firm Trafigura of illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast in 2006. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Israel to free flotilla activists Israel says it will release and deport foreigners seized on board an aid flotilla trying to break its blockade of Gaza. |
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| Iraq supreme court confirms poll Iraq's highest court confirms the results of the March election almost three months after the polls closed. | |
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| Turkey rocket attack 'kills six' Six Turkish soldiers die in a rocket attack on a naval base by the Mediterranean Sea, the country's state media reports. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Karzai to host Afghan peace talks Some 1,600 Afghan elders and notables gather for peace talks in Kabul, as the Taliban threatens delegates with death. |
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| US hails al-Qaeda chief's 'death' The White House says it "welcomes the demise" of al-Qaeda number three Mustafa Abu al-Yazid as a "severe blow" to the group. | |
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| Gunmen attack Pakistani hospital About five people are killed after gunmen attack a hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Gaza ship Britons 'to head home' Forty-one Britons detained after a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla are due to be deported shortly, says the foreign secretary. |
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| Watchdog backs alcohol price hike A health watchdog has added its voice to calls for a minimum price per unit of alcohol in England. | |
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| PM Cameron faces questions debut David Cameron is preparing for his first session giving the answers at Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Cage-fighter jailed for £53m raid Cage-fighter Lee Murray is jailed in Morocco for masterminding the £53m Securitas robbery - Britain's biggest cash raid. |
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| Charles sets out builders' test The Prince of Wales calls on housing developers to consider whether they would live in their own sites. | |
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| Walcott left out of England squad Theo Walcott is a surprise omission from England's 23-man World Cup squad, with Darren Bent, Adam Johnson, Scott Parker, Michael Dawson, Leighton Baines and Tom Huddlestone also missing out. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | NI to pay for farm subsidy errors The European Commission tells the Northern Ireland Executive to pay back £60m for subsidies paid in error to local farmers. |
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| Man faces terrorist items charges A man is to appear in court in Belfast charged with possessing items likely to be of use to terrorists. | |
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| SDLP's Convery new Belfast mayor The SDLP's Pat Convery is elected unopposed as Lord Mayor of Belfast, replacing Naomi Long of the Alliance Party. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Gaza aid convoy activist returns A Scottish activist who was on board the aid convoy which was stormed by Israeli soldiers returns to the UK. |
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| Woman dies in 'stabbing' at store Police launch a murder inquiry after a woman dies and a man is injured at a shop at St Enoch's Square in Glasgow city centre. | |
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| Drugs worth £16m seized last year A report on serious crime reveals more than 240kg of class A drugs were seized in Scotland in the past 12 months. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Leak woes push BP shares down 13% BP shares fall 13% as its oil well continues to leak, and the US government starts a criminal investigation. |
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| Pru 'fails in attempt to buy AIA' UK insurer Prudential has failed in its bid to buy AIA, the Asian unit of US group AIG, the BBC understands. | |
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| US shares fall on BP probe fears US shares decline after the US government says it has launched a criminal investigation into BP's oil spill. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Sex sells tickets at UK cinemas Sex and the City 2 is the top draw at cinemas in the UK and Ireland, making more than £6m in its first three days of release. |
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| US sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies French-born American sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies in New York at the age of 98. | |
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| Del Toro 'takes leave' of Hobbit Guillermo del Toro will no longer direct the two movies based on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, reports suggest. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | 'First' Neanderthal tool evidence Archaeologists have found what they say is the earliest evidence of Neanderthals living in Britain. |
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| Citizen science 'can save birds' People recording everyday sightings of birds, even the most common species, could help limit future extinctions, a study suggests. | |
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| Esa chief set to continue in role The European Space Agency's director general Jean-Jacques Dordain is backed to stay in office. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | China pushes supercomputer power China ramps up efforts to become a supercomputing superpower, as one of its machines is ranked second fastest in the world. |
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| Thieves strike in virtual world Finnish police raid homes in five cities in Finland, looking for evidence of virtual furniture theft. | |
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| Hewlett-Packard to cut 9,000 jobs Hewlett-Packard is to shed 9,000 jobs worldwide as it creates fully-automated commercial data centres. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Watchdog backs alcohol price hike A health watchdog has added its voice to calls for a minimum price per unit of alcohol in England. |
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| Midnight snacking 'damages teeth' Eating food in the middle of the night can seriously damage your teeth, experts warn. | |
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| World Cup sponsors 'unhealthy' Millions of children will be the victims of unhealthy food marketing at this year's World Cup, a charity warns. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Lecturers warn of national strike The head of the university lecturers' union warns members could opt for a national strike over redundancies |
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| Two-year degrees 'are sweatshops' University staff reject any move to introduce two-year degrees, warning that they would lead to "academic sweatshops". | |
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| All baby deaths 'must be probed' A senior coroner says reporting all baby deaths in hospital might spotlight the causes of stillbirths and neo-natal deaths. | |
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| 1953: Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London. | |||
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| 1979: Millions cheer as the Pope comes home The Pope is greeted by two million people as he sets foot on his native soil of Poland. | |||
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| 1994: MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre. | |||
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