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Egyptian protests erupt over pay

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 09:01 AM PST

Fresh protests and strikes erupt in Egypt as demonstrators demand better pay and conditions from the country's new military rulers.

Tehran protests hit by tear gas

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:41 AM PST

Iranian police fire tear gas and clash with protesters attending a banned opposition rally in Tehran, witnesses say.

Panama Canal alternative planned

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:47 AM PST

Colombia has announced it is to promote trade with Asia by building an alternative to the Panama Canal with China.

Brazil legend Ronaldo ends career

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:05 AM PST

Brazil's two-time World Cup-winning legend Ronaldo confirms his retirement from football at the age of 34.

Deadly attack hits Kabul centre

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:38 AM PST

Two guards are killed along with an attacker, officials say, during an assault on a shopping precinct in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul.

Obama unveils US budget cut plans

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:53 AM PST

US President Barack Obama unveils his 2012 budget, which he describes as a "down payment" on future cuts to the US budget deficit.

Men 'walk on to Martian surface'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:55 AM PST

The crew of a simulated mission to the Red Planet walk across a sandpit, pretending they are on the surface of Mars.

Man, 96, accused of Nazi atrocity

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:10 AM PST

Hungarian prosecutors charge former military officer Sandor Kepiro with a notorious 1942 massacre in the Serbian city of Novi Sad.

Prince William picks Harry as best man

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:42 AM PST

Prince Harry will be his brother's best man at the royal wedding in April, while Kate Middleton's sister Philippa will be her maid of honour.

First PlayStation phone unveiled

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:13 AM PST

Sony Ericsson has unveiled the first phone to incorporate the PlayStation Portable games system at Mobile World Congress

Supercomputer takes on humans in TV quiz

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:31 AM PST

An IBM supercomputer is to challenge two human contestants on the US quiz show Jeopardy in a test of artificial intelligence

Wife with soup ladle foils tiger attack on husband

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:52 AM PST

A man's near-fatal encounter with a tiger is stopped by his wife wielding a wooden soup ladle.

Woods to be fined over spitting

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:49 AM PST

Tiger Woods is to be fined for spitting during his final round at the Dubai Desert Classic.

London 2012 to release schedule

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:49 AM PST

The schedule of events for the London 2012 Olympic Games will be released at 0001 GMT on Tuesday.

Kubica condition 'good' after op

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:53 AM PST

Robert Kubica will stay in intensive care for another two days until a final operation on his elbow, his Renault team say.

Big Society is 'my mission' - PM

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:30 AM PST

David Cameron says the Big Society is here to stay - amid claims the policy is being wrecked by spending cuts.

RAF facing 25% trainee pilot cut

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:11 AM PST

The RAF is to cut back on a quarter of its trainee pilots as a result of defence cuts, with up to 100 recruits to learn their fate on Tuesday, it emerges.

Two soldiers die in fire at base

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:45 AM PST

Two British soldiers die at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan after what is thought to have been a domestic fire, the MoD announces.

Bomber vowed 'people would pay'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:49 AM PST

The inquests into the 7 July attacks have heard that the plot's ringleader once said "people would pay for what they had done to Pakistan".

Father in court over child deaths

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:45 AM PST

A father is charged with murdering his two young children in south London.

Tarmac lorry sheds its load on M3

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:43 AM PST

Workers attempt to remove tonnes of Tarmac which spread across three lanes of the M3 in Surrey then set, after being spilled from an overturned lorry.

Murder accused 'carried petrol'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:44 AM PST

A man accused of killing his wife in an Aberdeenshire crash had canisters of petrol in his car before she died, a court hears.

Royal couple return to St Andrews

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:36 AM PST

Prince William and his wife-to-be Kate Middleton are to return to the Fife university where they met to perform an official engagement.

Howell gives evidence at trial

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:24 AM PST

Convicted murderer Colin Howell tells a court what led him to confess to the murders of his wife and the policeman husband of his then mistress.

Funerals following Cork air crash

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:09 AM PST

Priest tells mourners at funeral of Pat Cullinan, who died in the Cork air crash that it was a dreadful accident which had left six families bereft of their loved ones.

Nikitta murder accused remanded

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:54 AM PST

A 26-year-old man appears in court charged with murdering heavily pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender in Newport.

Council chiefs' pay is defended

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:19 AM PST

Chief executives of councils in Wales are paid the right amount for the work they do, according to a body representing local government leaders.

New York knife suspect in court

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 07:54 PM PST

A man accused of killing four people, including his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, during a knife rampage appears in court in New York.

Boeing unveils Intercontinental

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:14 PM PST

US planemaker Boeing has unveiled the latest version of its jumbo jet, the 747-8 Intercontinental, pledging to carry more passengers using less fuel.

Colombian rebels release hostage

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 06:27 PM PST

Colombia's Farc rebels release another hostage but fail to hand over two more, whose release was also scheduled for Sunday.

Eight shot dead near Mexico City

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:14 PM PST

Unidentified gunmen in Mexico open fire on a group of young people in a suburb of the capital, Mexico City, killing eight.

Italy alert over Tunisia migrants

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:52 AM PST

Italy struggles to cope with a crisis on the tiny island of Lampedusa after thousands of migrants arrived from Tunisia.

South African man 'threatened UK'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:58 AM PST

A South African man has been charged with threatening to unleash a biological agent in Britain unless he was paid $4m (£2.5m).

Russia sells bank stake for $3bn

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:49 AM PST

Russia raises 96bn roubles ($3.3bn, £2.1bn) from the sale of a 10% stake in the country's second biggest bank, VTB.

Palestinian government 'resigns'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:04 AM PST

Palestinian ministers have resigned as part of a cabinet reshuffle, officials say, with elections planned for September.

Qadri charged with Taseer murder

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:40 AM PST

A police bodyguard who confessed to the killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is charged with murder in a Pakistani court.

India minister in UN speech gaffe

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 12:06 AM PST

India's Foreign Minister SM Krishna is derided by the opposition for reading out the speech of the Portuguese foreign minister at the UN.

Ba'asyir rejects terror charges

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:15 PM PST

Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir says terrorism charges against him are "made up", as his trial resumes in Indonesia.

Thais to reject UN Cambodia help

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:34 AM PST

Thailand says it will tell the UN Security Council that its border dispute with Cambodia can be solved without international intervention.

Airline profits 'to fall in 2011'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:11 AM PST

Airlines are likely to earn less this year than in 2010, an industry body says, despite a predicted rise in passenger numbers.

Rolls in $2.2bn Emirates contract

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:44 AM PST

Rolls-Royce announces a long-term service contract for 70 Trent engines with Emirates worth $2.2bn.

Egypt stock market remains closed

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:21 AM PST

The Egyptian stock market will remain closed until at least 20 February, after another planned opening is delayed.

Image site hits back at spammers

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:58 AM PST

Spammers are being thwarted by finding their junk messages unexpectedly contain warnings urging the recipients to delete the e-mail.

Pop ladies rule at Grammy Awards

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:39 AM PST

Pop superstar Lady Gaga and country trio Lady Antebellum are among the big winners at the prestigious Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Pakistani star released in Delhi

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:01 AM PST

Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is released after being held at Delhi airport for allegedly carrying a large amount of undeclared cash.

Sandler film beats Bieber in US

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:01 AM PST

Adam Sandler's latest comedy narrowly tops the North American box office chart, just ahead of Justin Bieber's concert documentary Never Say Never.

Spacecraft ready for comet flyby

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:54 AM PST

Nasa's Stardust spacecraft is about to sweep past Comet Tempel 1, to see how much it has changed since a probe last visited the object in 2005.

Prairie dogs kiss for an audience

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 12:49 AM PST

Adult prairie dogs kiss more when people are watching, say researchers studying the effects of captivity on animal behaviour.

Spinning black holes twist light

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:25 AM PST

Researchers propose a method to detect the light emitted near spinning black holes, suggesting that the twisting of space-time twists the light itself.

Malaria parasites use attack plan

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 05:15 AM PST

Edinburgh University scientists claim malaria is particularly deadly because the parasites which carry it battle other infections for survival.

Heart pump 'mends' woman's heart

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:27 AM PST

A 27-year-old woman whose heart stopped beating on the operating table is saved by a Nasa-inspired heart pump.

Egypt after Mubarak: Your stories

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:55 PM PST

Egypt's military authorities have announced they are suspending the constitution and dissolving parliament. Egyptians outside Cairo have been telling the BBC what life is like following two weeks of anti-government protest.

VIDEO: 'Cosmonauts' simulate Mars landing

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:23 AM PST

Russia's space program has simulated what it would be like to travel to and land on Mars with astronauts spending eight months in isolation.

VIDEO: Favourite son? Inside Mubarak's home town

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:19 AM PST

The majority of anti-Mubarak demonstrations were focused in Cairo and Alexandria. But what do people in the rest of Egypt think about the end of his rule?

VIDEO: Record snowfall hits South Korea

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:54 AM PST

The heaviest snowfall in more than a century on South Korea's east coast is causing widespread chaos.

VIDEO: New York considers food stamp soda ban

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:32 AM PST

New York officials want to stop people on low incomes using food stamps to buy fizzy drinks as part of a campaign against obesity.

VIDEO: Highlights of 2011 Grammy Awards

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:04 AM PST

Some of the biggest stars in music came out for the 2011 Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

VIDEO: Drive to improve Chinese wages

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:15 AM PST

China overtakes Japan to become world's second largest economy

VIDEO: Japanese seek opportunities abroad

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:52 AM PST

Japan losses position as world's second largest economy for first time in over 40 years.

VIDEO: 'World's first gaming smartphone' on show

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:05 PM PST

An Android mobile launched at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress features Sony PlayStation games.

Who started it?

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:14 PM PST

How revolutions actually happen

'My lost life'

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 12:06 AM PST

Nigerian freed after police torture and 15 years awaiting trial

Day in pictures

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:47 AM PST

Striking images from around the world

Out of office

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 07:34 AM PST

With smartphones and tablets, has mobile working come of age?

Snap decision

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:33 AM PST

How do you fight off a crocodile?

Lasting love

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:01 PM PST

The 500-year legacy of the world's first Valentine

Island genesis

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:34 AM PST

The tsunami that turned Britain from a peninsula into an island

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