- Welfare bill 'to be cut by £4bn'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:21:29 GMT
The government is planning to reduce the annual welfare bill by a further £4bn, Chancellor George Osborne tells the BBC.
- Obama condemns Koran burning plan
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:19:58 GMT
President Obama calls a small church's plan to burn the Koran a "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaeda, while Interpol warns a violent response is likely.
- MPs back new phone hacking probe
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:57:08 GMT
MPs back calls for a fresh parliamentary investigation into phone hacking claims after criticism of News of the World journalists.
- Defence firm BAE cuts 1,000 jobs
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:29:50 GMT
BAE Systems announces it is to axe almost 1,000 jobs across the UK, with 740 to go from five sites in England.
- Iran 'set to release a US hiker'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:32:44 GMT
Iran is set to release on Saturday one of three detained American hikers held since last July and accused of espionage, reports say.
- Second death linked to Legionnaires'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:51:24 GMT
Health officials are investigating a second death which is being linked to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in south Wales.
- Chote set to head Budget office
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:18:48 GMT
Economist and former journalist Robert Chote is to become the new head of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
- MPs get first vote on Afghanistan
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:32:21 GMT
The Commons is to vote for the first time on whether UK troops should remain in Afghanistan - almost nine years after the war started.
- British hostage freed in Pakistan
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:56:08 GMT
A British journalist held captive by militants in north-west Pakistan since March is released.
- Euro MPs condemn France over Roma
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:38:43 GMT
Euro MPs call on France to suspend its deportations of Roma (Gypsies), as Paris seeks co-operation from Romania.
- Alien 'killer' shrimp found in UK
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:03:07 GMT
An invasive species of predatory shrimp has been found in the UK for the first time.
- Rodney King tying the knot with his juror
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:53:38 GMT
Nineteen years after his brutal beating by four LA police officers, Rodney King is marrying a juror from the case.
- Victoria Wood to star in Morecambe and Wise film
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:10:12 GMT
Comedians Victoria Wood and Vic Reeves sign up to star in a feature-length film about the comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
- Toshack departs as Wales manager
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:34:21 GMT
John Toshack departs as Wales manager after a six-year reign with immediate effect by "mutual consent".
- Riaz to face police questioning
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:11:49 GMT
Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz will be questioned by Scotland Yard on 14 September in relation to allegations of corruption.
- Parker signs new deal at West Ham
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:42:59 GMT
Scot Parker signs a new contract with West Ham that will keep him at the club until 2014.
- Live - County Championship
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:00:03 GMT
Yorkshire defeat Nottinghamshire and Somerset beat Lancashire to turn the County Championship into a three-horse race.
- Alonso 'respects' Ferrari fine
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:52:36 GMT
Fernando Alonso claims he has a clear conscience following the FIA's decision to fine Ferrari $100,000 (£65,100) for using banned team orders
- North East 'least resilient' area
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:30:27 GMT
Industrial areas in the North East and Midlands are least resilient to economic shocks, BBC-commissioned research suggests.
- Trains sent on collision course
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:30:15 GMT
A Tube train was sent into the path of another train during Wednesday morning's rush hour, it emerges.
- Parties unite over carriers fears
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:36:13 GMT
Scottish ministers and opposition politicians join forces in a bid to ensure the future of two Royal Navy aircraft carriers.
- MSPs' allowances hit record high
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:27:48 GMT
MSPs claimed a record amount of expenses last year, with payments totalling almost £11.7m.
- Victim would not meet McGuinness
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:14:15 GMT
The son of a man killed in the Claudy bombings in 1972 says he does not believe Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has told the whole truth.
- Taxi driver picks up pipe bomb
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:26:45 GMT
A Strabane taxi driver picks up a pipe bomb and takes it to waste ground.
- Coroner opposes closure of unit
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:45:00 GMT
A decision to shut a pathology department will lead to a delay in post-mortems and the downgrading of a general hospital, claims a coroner.
- Bodies of seven dogs discovered
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:28:37 GMT
The RSPCA appeals for information after the bodies of seven dead dogs are found at stables, including one who was probably buried alive.
- Car bomb rocks Mogadishu airport
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:12:29 GMT
At least eight people are killed as a car bomb explodes at Somalia's main airport in Mogadishu, officials say.
- US marines retake hijacked ship
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:17:23 GMT
US Marines have boarded and seized a vessel hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, navy officials say.
- China U-turn on enforced blackout
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:15:29 GMT
Thousands of people in China are to have their electricity restored after the reversal of an order for enforced power cuts to meet energy-saving goals.
- Japan-China boat spat escalates
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:10:20 GMT
China warns Japan that their wider relationship will suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute about a Chinese fishing boat seized in disputed waters.
- Russia suicide bomber murders 16
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:58:20 GMT
A suicide bomber has killed at least 16 people and wounded one hundred others at a market in Vladikavkaz in southern Russia, officials say.
- Police search Sarkozy party's HQ
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:46:07 GMT
French financial police search the headquarters of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party over the inquiry into the L'Oreal party funding scandal, reports say.
- Mexico crime 'like an insurgency'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:59:37 GMT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.
- Castro doubts over Cuban system
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:12:52 GMT
Cuba's Fidel Castro says the Cuban model no longer works in the latest excerpt from an interview with a US journalist.
- Saudi website for fatwas closes
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:26:27 GMT
The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed its section offering thousands of Islamic religious rulings.
- Yemeni soldier killed in ambush
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:43:30 GMT
Gunmen open fire on soldiers in southern Yemen, killing at least one and wounding others.
- Indian caste census due in 2011
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:00:59 GMT
India's first caste-based census since 1931 will take place next year, the cabinet announces.
- Taliban chief says victory close
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:22:10 GMT
Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".
- US exports near to two-year high
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:14:19 GMT
The US trade gap in July narrowed thanks to increased exports of large US-made items such as aircraft.
- Rig firms hit back at BP report
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:55:33 GMT
Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
- UK interest rates remain at 0.5%
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:28:49 GMT
The Bank of England keeps UK interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.5% for the 18th consecutive month.
- Global economy slowing, says OECD
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:20:48 GMT
The global economic recovery is slowing faster than forecast, but a return to recession is unlikely, an economic group says.
- Bmibaby luggage gauges too small
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:33:26 GMT
Budget airline Bmibaby has been charging customers to put bags in the hold when they are small enough for the cabin, the BBC learns.
- Clegg seeks to calm cuts anxiety
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:13:51 GMT
Nick Clegg has sought to calm fears over the impact of spending cuts, insisting they will be spread over four years not implemented immediately.
- Cameron tribute to 'amazing dad'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:32:51 GMT
David Cameron and his family pay tribute to their late father, saying he had "touched a lot of lives".
- Ed Miliband tops August donations
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:09:28 GMT
Leadership hopeful Ed Miliband raised the most money of any of the Labour contenders during August, Electoral Commission figures show.
- Vitamin B 'puts off Alzheimer's'
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:05:21 GMT
High doses of B vitamins may slow the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, a study says.
- Hospital boss summoned to inquest
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:54:21 GMT
The chief executive of an NHS trust appears at an inquest into an elderly patient's death after she was summoned by the coroner.
- NHS IT costs to be cut by £700m
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:56:13 GMT
The government has announced £700m of savings in the national IT programme for the NHS in England, cutting the overall cost to £11.4bn.
- Door ajar on private universities
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:13:18 GMT
The Universities Minister suggests an increased role for private universities as he signals graduates will have to pay more for their degrees.
- Gove to change vocational courses
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:20:05 GMT
Education Secretary Michael Gove announces a review of vocational education in England, which he says "lost its way" under Labour.
- University research focus 'wrong'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:42:29 GMT
Science Minister David Willetts says the research-teaching balance in universities has 'gone wrong', after defending cuts to science research.
- Apple lays App Store rules bare
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:06:28 GMT
Apple says that it will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs it sells in its App Store to appease critical developers.
- Google unveils 'instant' searches
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:09:45 GMT
Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product called Instant that displays results as soon as users type in queries.
- Smartphone chip battle heats up
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:37:35 GMT
Intel is to launch its first chip with built-in graphics, while established phone chipmaker ARM releases a fast new chip.
- New evidence for rare black hole
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:24:59 GMT
Researchers say they may have found further evidence for the existence of an unusual type of black hole.
- Dino clue to 'earliest feathers'
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:50:00 GMT
Palaeontologists uncover a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feathers.
- Fungus threatening film history
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:23:38 GMT
A fungus that 'eats' cine film threatens to irreversibly damage important film archive and record of British social history.
- Explosive end for EastEnders star
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:03:05 GMT
An explosive EastEnders storyline which could see the end of Peggy Mitchell, played by Barbara Windsor, begins on Thursday.
- Most expensive book up for sale
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:55:18 GMT
A rare copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, billed as the world's most expensive book, is to go on sale at Sotheby's.
- Tinie Tempah leads way for Mobos
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:33:00 GMT
Rapper Tinie Tempah leads the way in the nominations for this year's Mobo Awards in Liverpool with four nods.
- What became of Mercury Communications?
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:11:51 GMT
Its name lives on in the form of a prestigious music prize but whatever happened to Mercury Communications?
- Is it bad taste to have a 'shortest man' record?
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:35:56 GMT
The world has a new shortest man - a 27in-tall person from Colombia. but is the title itself in poor taste?
- Did the Blitz really unify Britain?
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:34:56 GMT
Seventy years ago Britain endured eight months of nightly German bombing. Does this tale of national unity tell the whole story?
- Unity over future of aircraft carriers
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:19:48 GMT
Alex Salmond tells MSPs as many as 10,000 jobs could go if the UK government scraps the building of two new aircraft carriers, during first minister's question time.
- Google revamps search system
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:55:08 GMT
Google revamps search system with launch of 'Instant'
- Living under fire in a US Army outpost
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:30:02 GMT
Captain Henry Hansen of the US Army's 101st Airborne shows Quentin Sommerville around their combat outpost near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
- Media barons "have no predators"
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:35:06 GMT
The Labour MP for West Bromwich, Tom Watson, used the Commons debate on phone hacking to accuse fellow members of cowardice in the face of Britain's tabloid newspapers.
- Meet the Strictly Stars
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:21:28 GMT
Meet the Strictly Come Dancing Stars of 2010.
- Colorado fire destroys homes
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:50:59 GMT
A forest fire in the US state of Colorado has destroyed at least 136 homes, according to officials.
- Merlin series takes 'darker tone'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:11 GMT
Newsbeat visits the cast of Merlin on location in a soggy Puzzlewood and speaks to the actors who play Merlin and Morgana.
- Lion lunges at Las Vegas trainer
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:13:03 GMT
A lion lunged at a trainer as stunned onlookers watched in horror, at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.
- Plus size debut at NY Fashion Week
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:06:45 GMT
For the first time at New York Fashion Week there will be a runway show featuring plus size models.
- Armed forces in Afghanistan debate
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:09:37 GMT
Live coverage from the House of Commons.
- Vulnerable to public sector cuts?
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:54:48 GMT
Find out how resilient areas of England might be
- Talk of The Town
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:48:17 GMT
Rebecca Hall is fast becoming one of Britain's leading actresses
- Critical mass
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:40:58 GMT
How does the Catholic church endorse Britain’s only gay Mass?
- Model politician
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:17:48 GMT
British-born ex-Miss Bolivia on why she has gone into politics
- Altered image
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:40:25 GMT
Pictures reveal new side to life in trend-setting Soweto
- Magnificent Mary
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:11:40 GMT
India's top woman boxer dreams of Olympic glory
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