Saturday, 17 October, 2009, 8:00 GMT 13:00 +05:00:Asia/Karachi | |
TOP STORIES | |
Pakistan forces move on Taliban The Pakistan army is reported to have started its long-awaited ground attack on Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. | |
HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. | |
Fans to gather for Gately funeral Celebrities and fans are due to pay their respects at the funeral of former Boyzone star Stephen Gately. | |
Appeal over torture claim ruling The government will appeal against a court ruling that US documents detailing the alleged torture of an ex-UK resident can be released. | |
'Toxic waste' report gag lifted Lawyers for oil trading firm Trafigura end attempts to keep secret a report about toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast. |
WORLD | |
Pakistan forces move on Taliban The Pakistan army is reported to have started its long-awaited ground attack on Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. | |
North Korean diplomat to visit US A senior North Korean diplomat is to be allowed a rare visit to the US later this month, officials say, with "informal" meetings planned. | |
Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. |
EUROPE | |
Opel's German aid may break rules Brussels warns Germany's planned state aid for Opel may breach competition rules, raising the prospect of its sale being halted. | |
Bosnian Serb jailed for genocide A former Bosnian Serb army officer is jailed for genocide over the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. | |
Spain set for anti-abortion rally Thousands of people are expected to rally in Madrid against plans to liberalise Spain's abortion laws. |
MIDDLE EAST | |
UN backs Gaza 'war crimes' report The UN Human Rights Council backs a report into Israel's Gaza offensive accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. | |
Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Iraqi asylum seekers returned to Baghdad by the UK government are refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. | |
Court claim over camel 'beauty' A Saudi camel owner sues oil giant Saudi Aramco for $250,000 after a prized beast falls into a hole in the desert. |
SOUTH ASIA | |
Pakistan forces move on Taliban The Pakistan army is reported to have started its long-awaited ground attack on Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. | |
Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. | |
Indian fireworks blaze 'kills 30' At least 30 people have been killed and 10 injured in a fire at a fireworks warehouse in southern India, reports say. |
UK | |
HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. | |
Appeal over torture claim ruling The government will appeal against a court ruling that US documents detailing the alleged torture of an ex-UK resident can be released. | |
'Toxic waste' report gag lifted Lawyers for oil trading firm Trafigura end attempts to keep secret a report about toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast. |
ENTERTAINMENT | |
Fans to gather for Gately funeral Celebrities and fans are due to pay their respects at the funeral of former Boyzone star Stephen Gately. | |
Police target hip-hop nightclubs Hip-hop nightclubs in London will face police scrutiny after a rethink of a strategy to prevent crime and violence at music events. | |
Sugababes' Amelle 'in a clinic' Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah is admitted to a private health clinic suffering "from a severe bout of nervous exhaustion". |
SCIENCE/NATURE | |
LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. | |
Hare coursers 'flout Hunting Act' A BBC investigation suggests illegal hare coursing is on the rise despite its ban under the 2004 Hunting Act. | |
Bad memories written with lasers Scientists use lasers to write bad memories onto the brains of flies, revealing some of the brain circuitry responsible for learning. |
TECHNOLOGY | |
Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay Uruguay has given 362,000 primary children laptops which run on a Linux desktop. | |
ISP in file-sharing wi-fi theft TalkTalk has been an outspoken critic of UK government piracy plans and now it sets out to prove why. | |
Confused message on UK broadband As Finland makes broadband 'a legal right' the UK government appears to toughen up its broadband plans. |
HEALTH | |
Warning over fibroids treatment UK doctors are warning that one of the newer treatments for heavy periods caused by fibroids can seriously harm any subsequent pregnancy. | |
'No post-jab paracetamol' advice Routinely giving paracetamol to babies after vaccinations may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, research suggests. | |
Foetal kick charts 'inaccurate' Foetal kick charts, used to check a pregnancy's healthy progress, are inaccurate and should not be used, Irish researchers say. |
EDUCATION | |
Delay formal lessons 'to age six' A major review of primary education calls for children's formal learning to be delayed until they reach the age of six. | |
Open-plan school hearing problems The acoustics of new schools will have to be improved after warnings open-plan designs make hearing difficult. | |
Fewer than half get GCSE minimum Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five "good passes" including maths and English. |
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1989: Earthquake hits San Francisco A powerful earthquake rocks San Francisco killing nine people and injuring hundreds. | |||
2000: Four dead in Hatfield rail crash Four people are killed when a high speed passenger train derails in Hatfield, just north of London. | |||
1980: Pope welcomes Queen to the Vatican The Queen makes the first state visit to the Vatican by a British monarch and is received by the Pope. | |||
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