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| Tuesday, 03 November, 2009, 4:00 GMT 04:00 +00:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | RBS and Lloyds set for sell-offs Banks RBS and Lloyds are due to announce plans to sell off parts of their businesses to meet EU competition rules. |
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| Plea to spread Madeleine message Internet users around the world are urged to spread a new video message aimed at reaching a key witness to Madeleine McCann's disappearance. | |
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| Species' extinction threat grows More than a third of species assessed by a global biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists warn. | |
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| Royal Mail to face legal action The Royal Mail is to face legal action over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff, says main postal union the CWU. | |
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| Obama urges 'new Afghan chapter' Barack Obama urges Hamid Karzai to "write a new chapter" in governing Afghanistan, after its disputed presidential poll. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Obama urges 'new Afghan chapter' Barack Obama urges Hamid Karzai to "write a new chapter" in governing Afghanistan, after its disputed presidential poll. |
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| Argentine ex-leader goes on trial The trial begins of Argentina's last military ruler and five other retired generals accused of human rights abuses. | |
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| Species' extinction threat grows More than a third of species assessed by a global biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists warn. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Albino killers get death penalty Tanzania hands death sentences to four men who killed and dismembered an albino man, one of a spate of such attacks. |
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| Liberia corruption fighter killed Gunmen kill the Liberian official charged with rooting out corruption in the award of public contracts. | |
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| Sahara Sun 'to help power Europe' A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert is announced by a consortium of 12 European businesses. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Cost-cutting boosts Ford profits Ford announces profits of almost $1bn between July and September, thanks to increased market share and reduced costs. |
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| Canadian's bid to sue US rejected A New York court rules against allowing a Syrian-born Canadian to sue US authorities over his mistaken arrest for terrorism links. | |
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| Argentine ex-leader goes on trial The trial begins of Argentina's last military ruler and five other retired generals accused of human rights abuses. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | N Korea urges US nuclear talks North Korea has said it is ready for direct talks with the US on its nuclear programme but will "go its own way" if refused. |
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| Boat capsizes off Cocos Islands About 12 people are missing after a boat believed to be carrying 40 people sank off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. | |
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| Scientists 'cause' Beijing snow Chinese meteorologists say they caused Beijing's earliest snowfall in a decade, after seeding rain clouds with silver iodide. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Karadzic 'will appear at trial' Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he will attend his genocide and war crimes trial after an earlier boycott. |
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| EU awaits Czech verdict on Lisbon The Czech Constitutional Court is due to deliver a verdict on objections to the European Union's Lisbon Treaty. | |
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| Ex-KGB spy gunned down in Moscow A Russian businessman who was convicted in Israel as a Soviet spy is shot dead in Moscow, according to police. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iranian guards warn over protest Iran's Revolutionary Guards warn opposition groups not to hold protests on the anniversary of US embassy seizure. |
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| US view on settlement 'unchanged' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US has not changed its opposition to continued Israeli settlement in the West Bank. | |
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| Iraq signs new overseas oil deal Iraq's oil ministry signs an agreement with a consortium led by the Italian firm, ENI, to develop the Zubair oilfield. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Obama urges 'new Afghan chapter' Barack Obama urges Hamid Karzai to "write a new chapter" in governing Afghanistan, after its disputed presidential poll. |
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| Pakistan takes Taliban stronghold Pakistan's army says it has captured a key Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan, as a bomb kills at least 35 in Rawalpindi. | |
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| Pakistan offers Taliban bounties Pakistan offers rewards totalling $5m (£3m) for the capture, dead or alive, of Taliban militant leaders in the country. | |
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| UK | |
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| RBS and Lloyds set for sell-offs Banks RBS and Lloyds are due to announce plans to sell off parts of their businesses to meet EU competition rules. |
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| Royal Mail to face legal action The Royal Mail is to face legal action over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff, says main postal union the CWU. | |
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| Offender IT failure 'a shambles' A committee of MPs heavily criticises an abandoned government IT scheme to track offenders. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Sentence for fire bomb attacker A man who ordered fire bomb attacks on the homes of two Essex detectives he blamed for "ruining" Christmas, is to be sentenced. |
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| Plea to spread Madeleine message Internet users around the world are urged to spread a new video message aimed at reaching a key witness to Madeleine McCann's disappearance. | |
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| Swine flu woman dies after birth A 31-year-old woman who became infected with swine flu during her pregnancy dies days after giving birth. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Politicians praise Libyan visit Politicians who went to Libya to press for compensation for IRA victims return to the UK, hailing their visit as a success. |
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| PSNI chief 'shocked' by picture The chief constable of the PSNI says he was "deeply shocked" by the publication of a picture of a man who had taken his life. | |
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| Ballot called as co-option fails There is to be a by-election in Craigavon after councillors failed to agree on a replacement for a vacant seat. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | RBS cuts thousands of retail jobs Almost 4,000 retail banking jobs are to be cut by the Royal Bank of Scotland across the UK. |
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| Scots cannabis crop 'worth £100m' An estimated £100m of cannabis is grown annually in Scotland, according to the man leading the fight against the industry. | |
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| Home repossessions 'set to soar' Home repossessions are set to soar when interest rates start to rise again, the housing charity Shelter Scotland warns. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Offender IT failure 'a shambles' A committee of MPs heavily criticises an abandoned government IT scheme to track offenders. |
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| Met rejects Martin 'trick' claim Scotland Yard "strongly" rejects a suggestion that an officer tricked a Commons official over the search of an MP's office. | |
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| MP sorry for Nazi analogy e-mail An MP denies equating his treatment over expenses to the Holocaust - but apologises for a "clumsily" worded e-mail. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Royal Mail to face legal action The Royal Mail is to face legal action over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff, says main postal union the CWU. |
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| RBS and Lloyds set for sell-offs Banks RBS and Lloyds are due to announce plans to sell off parts of their businesses to meet EU competition rules. | |
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| Probe into Friends Reunited sale ITV's £25m sale of social networking website Friends Reunited is referred to the Competition Commission. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Swimmer queries Mock show ruling Rebecca Adlington's agent says the BBC Trust did not take a tough enough stance over comments made about the swimmer in Mock the Week. |
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| New producer set for EastEnders Hollyoaks producer Bryan Kirkwood will take over as EastEnders executive producer when Diederick Santer steps down. | |
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| A-list stars honour Jonathan Ross Jonathan Ross receives the 2009 Music Industry Trusts' Award from George Michael at a charity dinner in London. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Species' extinction threat grows More than a third of species assessed by a global biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists warn. |
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| European water mission lifts off A European satellite is set to provide major new insights into how water is cycled around the Earth. | |
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| Logging 'caused Nazca collapse' New evidence suggests the fate of the ancient Nazca society of Peru was entwined with that of the huarango tree. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | File-sharers are big spenders too A survey finds that people who download music illegally also spend more buying tunes legitimately. |
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| Video gamers face malware deluge Players of online games such as World of Warcraft are becoming popular targets for virus writers, reveals research. | |
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| Nokia abandons N-Gage gaming Mobile operator says there will be no more games published and the N-Gage service will shut down by the end of 2010. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Child obesity 'is levelling off' Forecasts of a huge rise in obesity among children in England have been significantly downgraded following a new analysis of data. |
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| Aspirin 'only for heart patients' Using aspirin to ward off heart attacks and strokes in those not suffering cardiovascular disease should stop, research says. | |
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| Memory test 'spots pre-dementia' Memory and language tests can reliably reveal "hidden" early dementia, says a British team of experts. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Crackdown on school place cheats Tougher action is urged against the thousands of parents who lie to get their children into popular schools every year. |
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| University applications rise 12% Initial statistics suggest there will again be strong demand for a place at university in the UK next year. | |
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| Refugees 'better qualified' claim Refugees in Wales are more likely to have a degree than people who were born in the country, new research suggests. | |
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| 2004: George W Bush wins second term George W Bush is elected president of the United States for the second time, beating his Democratic rival by a comfortable margin. | |||
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| 1957: Russians launch dog into space The Soviet Union sends the first ever living creature into the cosmos aboard Sputnik II. | |||
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| 1975: North Sea oil begins to flow The Queen has formally begun the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline at a £500,000 ceremony in Scotland. | |||
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