Friday, 25 September, 2009, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London | |
TOP STORIES | |
Expenses mole angry over Army kit A mole angered by inadequate equipment for the armed forces leaked details about MPs' expenses, says the Telegraph. | |
G20 'will take on expanded role' The G20 will play a co-ordinating role in the world economy, the US says, as its Pittsburgh meeting opens amid protests. | |
Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers' Exceptionally well preserved dinosaur fossils uncovered in north-eastern China display the earliest known feathers. | |
Bogus Gumtree car salesman jailed Two men are jailed for putting fake car adverts on the Gumtree website and then robbing people who responded. | |
US census worker hanging probed Police investigate the death of a census collector found hanged from a tree in rural Kentucky. |
WORLD | |
G20 'will take on expanded role' The G20 will play a co-ordinating role in the world economy, the US says, as its Pittsburgh meeting opens amid protests. | |
Honduras holds 'informal' talks The interim Honduran government confirms that "informal talks" have been held with ousted President Manuel Zelaya. | |
Future is TV-shaped, says Intel Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, says TV will soon be the key device for all entertainment and electronic commerce. |
AFRICA | |
Outrage at Jammeh's death threat An online petition is launched in protest at the Gambian president's threat to kill human rights workers. | |
UN warns over East Africa hunger About 20 million people in the Horn of Africa need emergency food aid - six million more than last year, the UN warns. | |
SA athletics chief to stay in job Athletics South Africa chief Leonard Chuene will keep his job despite calls for him to be fired for lying about Caster Semenya undergoing gender tests. |
AMERICAS | |
G20 'will take on expanded role' The G20 will play a co-ordinating role in the world economy, the US says, as its Pittsburgh meeting opens amid protests. | |
Honduras holds 'informal' talks The interim Honduran government confirms that "informal talks" have been held with ousted President Manuel Zelaya. | |
US census worker hanging probed Police investigate the death of a census collector found hanged from a tree in rural Kentucky. |
ASIA-PACIFIC | |
Suu Kyi 'welcomes US engagement' Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi welcomes US plans to engage with the military junta | |
N Koreans in 'Denmark asylum bid' Nine North Koreans enter Denmark's embassy in Vietnam's capital Hanoi to claim political asylum, reports say. | |
Palau pioneers 'shark sanctuary' With half of the world's sharks threatened with extinction, Palau creates the world's first "shark sanctuary". |
EUROPE | |
Lada carmaker to cut 27,600 jobs Russia's largest carmaker, Avtovaz, says it will cut up to 27,600 jobs as it tries to cope with the global slump in demand. | |
'Last Ottoman' dies in Istanbul Ertugrul Osman - the would-be sultan known in Turkey as the "last Ottoman" - dies in Istanbul at the age of 97. | |
Babi Yar hotel decision condemned Jewish groups condemn a Ukrainian plan to build a hotel at the site of the Kiev's Babi Yar World War Two massacre. |
MIDDLE EAST | |
China unmoved on Iran sanctions China says more sanctions on Iran will not help negotiations, as Russia appears to soften its opposition to such measures. | |
Olmert: I went furthest on peace Former PM Ehud Olmert tells the BBC he went further than any Israeli government in the deal he offered the Palestinians. | |
Captain killed by Somali pirates Somali pirates board a ship heading for Mogadishu harbour and kill its Syrian captain, according to Somali officials. |
SOUTH ASIA | |
Spacecraft see 'damp' Moon soils Data from three spacecraft, including an Indian probe, detect very fine films of water coating dirt particles on the Moon. | |
Pakistan drone attack kills four At least four people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in north-west Pakistan, Pakistani officials say. | |
US charges suspect in 'bomb plot' An Afghan-born US man is charged with plotting to carry out attacks after learning in Pakistan how to make bombs. |
UK | |
Expenses mole angry over Army kit A mole angered by inadequate equipment for the armed forces leaked details about MPs' expenses, says the Telegraph. | |
Get tough with Iran, Brown urges Gordon Brown say the UN must consider "far tougher" sanctions against countries who break nuclear non-proliferation rules. | |
Bogus Gumtree car salesman jailed Two men are jailed for putting fake car adverts on the Gumtree website and then robbing people who responded. |
ENGLAND | |
Bogus Gumtree car salesman jailed Two men are jailed for putting fake car adverts on the Gumtree website and then robbing people who responded. | |
Everton star raided at knifepoint Everton defender Phil Jagielka is threatened at knifepoint by thieves who broke into his Cheshire home. | |
Prisoner 'drunk on swine flu gel' A Dorset prison removes anti-bacterial hand gel pumps after an inmate is thought to have got drunk drinking from them. |
NORTHERN IRELAND | |
Trust suspends private referrals Patients being treated in the Belfast Health Trust will no longer be referred to the private sector for operations as part of a cost-cutting drive. | |
More arrests in dissident probe A man and woman are detained in the Dungannon area by officers from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch. | |
Stormont consultant fees top £100m Stormont departments have spent more than £100m in private consultancy fees in the past five years, it has emerged. |
SCOTLAND | |
New row over Games transport link A new row breaks out over the Scottish goverment's commitment to transport projects linked to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. | |
Call for National Trust overhaul Critics of the National Trust for Scotland urge it to drop its "old discredited policies" and set a new course. | |
Book town festival gets under way The 11th annual book festival celebrations get under way in the small south west Scotland town of Wigtown. |
POLITICS | |
Shorten MPs' summer, says Speaker House of Commons Speaker John Bercow says MPs should give up their 12-week summer holidays and return to parliament in September. | |
Expenses mole angry over Army kit A mole angered by inadequate equipment for the armed forces leaked details about MPs' expenses, says the Telegraph. | |
Get tough with Iran, Brown urges Gordon Brown say the UN must consider "far tougher" sanctions against countries who break nuclear non-proliferation rules. |
BUSINESS | |
G20 'will take on expanded role' The G20 will play a co-ordinating role in the world economy, the US says, as its Pittsburgh meeting opens amid protests. | |
Jaguar to shut one Midlands plant Jaguar Land Rover says it will close one of its plants in the West Midlands after 2014, but there will be no net job losses. | |
UK queries Magna's Vauxhall plan UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson says he does not believe Magna's plan for Vauxhall is "commercially the most viable". |
ENTERTAINMENT | |
Squeeze file-sharers, stars say Pop star Lily Allen joins a meeting at which musicians call for illegal file-sharers to have their broadband speeds throttled. | |
BBC seeks older female newsreader The BBC is actively seeking an older female newsreader, as it seeks to counter accusations of ageism. | |
Papas star 'slept with daughter' The daughter of late Mamas and Papas frontman John Phillips claims she had a decade-long sexual liaison with her father. |
SCIENCE/NATURE | |
Palau pioneers 'shark sanctuary' With half of the world's sharks threatened with extinction, Palau creates the world's first "shark sanctuary". | |
Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers' Exceptionally well preserved dinosaur fossils uncovered in north-eastern China display the earliest known feathers. | |
Recession barely dents 'eco-debt' The global recession has barely dented the trend to over consumption according to a report out today. |
TECHNOLOGY | |
Future is TV-shaped, says Intel Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, says TV will soon be the key device for all entertainment and electronic commerce. | |
Nintendo drops Wii console price Games giant Nintendo follows similar moves by Sony and Microsoft and slashes the price of its games console. | |
Bus CCTV could predict assaults CCTV security systems could soon spot an assault on a bus before it happens, according to a major research project. |
HEALTH | |
Prostate screening under scrutiny Routine screening for prostate cancer comes under further scrutiny after two studies conclude it may do more harm than good. | |
Anti-depressants pregnancy 'risk' Children born to women taking anti-depressants in early pregnancy have a small increase in heart defects, a study finds. | |
Swine flu cases continue to rise The number of new cases of swine flu in England has almost doubled over the last seven days to 9,000. |
EDUCATION | |
Head teacher shortage 'is easing' New figures suggest the problem of finding head teachers in England and Wales might have improved last year. | |
UK rise in international students The number of non-European students enrolling on courses at UK universities almost doubles in less than ten years, a report finds. | |
Donor offers to help dinner lady An anonymous donor offers to pay legal costs for a dinner lady sacked for telling parents their daughter had been bullied. |
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1957: Troops end Little Rock school crisis More than 1,000 paratroopers in full battle dress escort nine black children to high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. | |||
1950: Seoul in UN hands United Nations forces have taken control of the South Korean capital Seoul, three months after it fell to North Korea, the US Army announces. | |||
1983: Dozens escape in Maze break-out Thirty-eight prisoners escape from a high-security jail in Northern Ireland. | |||
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