Sunday, 18 October, 2009, 8:00 GMT 13:00 +05:00:Asia/Karachi | |
TOP STORIES | |
Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps Royal Mail plans to recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush. | |
Iranian commanders assassinated Several top officers in the elite Revolutionary Guard have been killed in a suicide attack in south-eastern Iran, state media says. | |
Kidnapped Darfur aid staff freed Two kidnapped aid workers are released after more than three months in captivity in the Sudanese region of Darfur. | |
Taliban resist Pakistan onslaught Taliban militants put up fierce resistance to the Pakistan army as it attempts to oust them from strongholds in South Waziristan. | |
US balloon parents 'face charges' Colorado police say the parents of a boy mistakenly believed swept away by a weather balloon will face charges. |
WORLD | |
Iranian commanders assassinated Several top officers in the elite Revolutionary Guard have been killed in a suicide attack in south-eastern Iran, state media says. | |
Taliban resist Pakistan onslaught Taliban militants put up fierce resistance to the Pakistan army as it attempts to oust them from strongholds in South Waziristan. | |
US balloon parents 'face charges' Colorado police say the parents of a boy mistakenly believed swept away by a weather balloon will face charges. |
EUROPE | |
Czech leader resigned to treaty Czech President Vaclav Klaus compares the Lisbon Treaty to an unstoppable speeding train, saying he may have to sign it. | |
UK looks to break climate logjam The UK hopes to bridge divides over tackling climate change at a meeting representing the world's major economies in London. | |
Kidnapped Darfur aid staff freed Two kidnapped aid workers are released after more than three months in captivity in the Sudanese region of Darfur. |
MIDDLE EAST | |
Iranian commanders assassinated Several top officers in the elite Revolutionary Guard have been killed in a suicide attack in south-eastern Iran, state media says. | |
Iraq cabinet ratifies oil deals Iraq's cabinet ratifies a deal with a British and a Chinese energy company to develop the giant southern oilfield in Rumaila. | |
Newsweek reporter freed in Iran An Iranian-Canadian journalist arrested during the protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election is freed. |
SOUTH ASIA | |
US senator warns on Afghan troops US Senator John Kerry says it would be "irresponsible" to send more US troops to Afghanistan before election results are clear. | |
Taliban resist Pakistan onslaught Taliban militants put up fierce resistance to the Pakistan army as it attempts to oust them from strongholds in South Waziristan. | |
Canadians intercept migrant ship A ship carrying 76 migrants has been seized off Canada's Pacific coast in a case of suspected human smuggling, officials say. |
UK | |
Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps Royal Mail plans to recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush. | |
Father charged over child murders Police have charged a 37-year-old man with the murders of his two children found unconscious at a Manchester flat. | |
Aquarium worker bitten by shark A 23-year-old staff member is bitten by an angel shark at North Queensferry's Deep Sea World aquarium. |
ENTERTAINMENT | |
Boyzone star in tribute to Gately Boyzone singer Ronan Keating breaks down during his funeral tribute to former bandmate Stephen Gately in Dublin. | |
Polanski moved for medical tests Film director Roman Polanski has been moved from a Swiss prison to undergo medical tests, his lawyer says. | |
Calzaghe knocked out of Strictly Former boxer Joe Calzaghe has become the latest celebrity to depart BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing show. |
SCIENCE/NATURE | |
UK looks to break climate logjam The UK hopes to bridge divides over tackling climate change at a meeting representing the world's major economies in London. | |
Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. | |
LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. |
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 | |
'Cash for care' abuse warning The direct payment system for social care is putting vulnerable people at risk, campaign groups warn. | |
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. |
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: East Germany leader ousted The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems. | |||
1963: Aristocrat is new prime minister A Scottish Earl, Lord Home, wins a bitter contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party to become Britain's new prime minister. | |||
1967: Soviets glimpse beneath clouds of Venus The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time. | |||
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