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News and Media RSS FeedsMet to probe phone-hack evidence - The Metropolitan Police says it will consider new evidence about allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World....Feed Source: www.bbc.co.uk Diabetes drug advice 'not heeded' - A type two diabetes drug is still being prescribed in the UK two months after it was recommended for withdrawal, BBC Panorama learns.... Student migration 'unsustainable' - The number of foreign students let into the UK is "unsustainable", minister Damian Green will say in his first major speech on immigration.... Children die in Pakistan bombing - Children on their way to school are among 17 people killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden pick-up truck into a police station in north-west Pakistan.... Blair criticises prison policies - Former prime minister Tony Blair criticises the government's prison policies, saying the coalition is soft on crime.... Spain's Eta 'declares ceasefire' - Armed Basque separatist group Eta says it has decided not to carry out "armed actions" in its campaign for independence, the BBC learns.... Demand for Equitable Life payout - Pensioners hit by the Equitable Life scandal are to make a final attempt to persuade the government to pay them full compensation.... Germany extends nuclear lifespan - Germany's government agrees to extend the life span of the country's nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say.... Tube strike disruption expected - Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later.... ELO cellist killed by bale of hay - Early ELO member Mike Edwards is killed in a freak road accident involving a bale of hay in Devon.... Record breaker enjoys dinner at 100 mph - Perry Watkins from Buckinghamshire has set what he hopes is a new world record for the fastest piece of furniture, a Queen Anne dining table.... X Factor runner-up Olly Murs tops singles chart - Former X Factor contestant Olly Murs goes straight to the top of the UK singles chart with his debut single Please Don't Let Me Go.... Murray makes shock US Open exit - Britain's Andy Murray goes out of the US Open after suffering a dramatic slump against 25th seed Stanislas Wawrinka.... Rooney to travel despite claims - Wayne Rooney will fly out to Switzerland on Monday morning for England's Euro 2012 qualifier amid allegations about his private life.... England cruise to win in Twenty20 - England underline their status as World Twenty20 champions as they cruise to victory in the first of two internationals against Pakistan.... Hameed hits out at fixing 'sting' - Pakistan's Yasir Hameed says a meeting he had with the News of the World that was secretly recorded has been "inaccurately reported" by the tabloid.... Toshack ready to quit Wales job - John Toshack is on the verge of quitting as Wales manager after the defeat in Montenegro, BBC Sport understands.... Golf course man had head injuries - A man whose body was dumped at an East Sussex golf course and set alight died from head injuries, a post-mortem examination reveals.... Wife accused of husband's murder - A 67-year-old woman is charged with murdering her husband who died from a single stab wound to the heart at the family home in Surrey.... Independence 'an election issue' - A bill to hold an independence referendum will not be put to a vote before the 2011 elections, the Scottish government confirms.... Fire at tyre store closes roads - A major fire at a tyre storage centre on the south side of Glasgow has led to road closures in the area, police have said.... Blair attacks 'wicked' dissidents - Tony Blair warns the authorities on both sides of the Irish border not to underestimate the threat posed by dissident republicans.... NI parties divided on vote reform - NI political parties are divided over proposals to change the voting system for Westminster elections and to have fewer MPs.... Wales 'more vulnerable' to cuts - Industry leaders and council officials say Wales is more vulnerable to public cuts due to high public sector employment.... New M4 link 'to create 600 jobs' - Up to 600 jobs are expected to be created during the construction of a £107m motorway link near Port Talbot.... 'Many dead' in DR Congo accidents - Many people are feared dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo after two boats capsize in separate incidents.... Strike starts at S African mine - Thousands of South African platinum miners at the Northam mine begin a strike in support of a 15% pay claim.... New Zealand assesses quake damage - Officials assess the damage caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, as aftershocks continue.... South Korea FM offers to resign - The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yu Myung-hwan, offers to resign after it was revealed that his daughter was offered a job in his ministry.... Spain wary of Eta ceasefire move - The Spanish government dismisses a ceasefire by Eta as "insufficient" and calls for the Basque separatist group to lay down its weapons.... Pope 'may appeal' in Iran stoning - The Vatican says it could appeal diplomatically to Iran to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.... Miners' families mark first month - Relatives of 33 trapped miners in Chile hold a ceremony to mark their first month underground.... Landslides kill 36 in Guatemala - At least 36 people die in Guatemala in landslides caused by weeks of intense rain, and many others are still missing.... US troops summoned in Iraq attack - US troops are called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents behind a deadly attack on an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, security officials tell the BBC.... One dead in Israeli raids on Gaza - Israel carries out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another.... Indian Maoists release policemen - Maoist rebels in the eastern Indian state of Bihar release three policemen they were holding hostage for eight days, police say.... Security stepped up at Kabul Bank - Armed police are posted outside the main branch of Kabul Bank as customers continue to withdraw money amid fears it may collapse.... BP well 'poses no further risk' - The official in charge of cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the well which caused the damage is no longer a risk to the environment.... Kara DioGuardi leaves Idol panel - Songwriter Kara DioGuardi becomes the latest member of the judging panel on American Idol to quit this year.... BA boss reveals takeover ambition - British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.... UK car sales suffer sharp decline - New car sales fell 17.5% in August - the second consecutive month of declines, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.... Overseas demand 'boosts UK firms' - Rising overseas demand has created buoyant conditions for manufacturers in the UK, an industry report suggests, though threats remain.... Blair could cancel book signing - Tony Blair has hinted that he could signal a book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle".... MPs to debate AV bill on return - Plans for a referendum of the way MPs are elected will take centre stage on Monday as the House of Commons resumes business.... Need to cut deficit 'supported' - Many people are in favour of reducing the deficit but they are less clear about where cuts should be made, a BBC poll suggests.... Gum and heart link 'breakthrough' - Scientists say they have established one reason why gum disease may increase the risk of heart disease.... Reading Arabic 'hard for brain' - Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.... 'No evidence' implants are toxic - Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say.... Gove defends free school numbers - Michael Gove says demand for new free schools has exceeded expectations but Labour says plans for 16 new institutions next year are "laughable".... Tory defects over schools scheme - A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".... Men in short supply in primaries - One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.... Tiny solar cells fix themselves - A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.... PS3 hack escapes court challenge - Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web.... Craigslist ends adult service ads - Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups.... Blair in climate inaction warning - Former UK Prime Minster Tony Blair warns world leaders they may pay a heavy price in history if they fail to tackle global warming.... Hubble re-shoots 1987 star blast - The Hubble space telescope returns to view one of its favourite subjects - a giant stellar explosion first seen from Earth in 1987.... Danish rocketeers postpone launch - A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts trying to launch a dummy 30km into the sky abort the mission when a valve on their rocket freezes up.... Funeral for festival death star - The funeral is held of singer Charles Haddon from Northamptonshire who died in a fall in Belgium.... Robbie turns on Blackpool lights - Thousands of people watch Robbie Williams switch on Blackpool's illuminations.... Sarah Kennedy leaves BBC Radio 2 - Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station... Do our memories get better with age? - Our ability to recall events seems to sharpen as we get older, says Lisa Jardine, but can it be trusted to paint an accurate picture?... Eddie who? - Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention?... Don't let the bed bugs bite - The world is on the verge of a bed-bug pandemic, according to a report - how did the tiny biting insects come to pose such a threat?... Edinburgh Festival closes with a bang - The Edinburgh International Festival finished with a bang on Sunday as over 100,000 fireworks lit up the night sky.... Life for Roma expelled from France - Nick Thorpe has been visiting some of the families in western Romania, who were sent back from France.... Quake aftermath in New Zealand - Officials in New Zealand have been evaluating the damage caused in the city of Christchurch by an earthquake and its many aftershocks.... Exclusive video shows Eta statement - The armed Basque separatist group Eta has decided not to carry out "armed actions" in its campaign for Basque independence from France and Spain, the BBC has been told.... Diabetes drug used despite advice - Senior doctors are calling for a drug used to treat Type Two Diabetes, to be withdrawn on safety grounds.... 'If I left her, I would be killed' - 40% of domestic violence victims are male but a new study suggests victims are often ignored by police and there are only a handful of refuge places for abused men across the UK. Ian McNicholl was abused by a partner and told his story to BBC Breakfast... Could adverts appear on the Colosseum? - The Italian government is inviting private companies to sponsor the Colosseum to help fund repairs.... Trapped miners speak to families - The group of miners in Chile trapped underground for a month have been talking to their families on a video link.... Cloak and dagger - How the BBC learned that Eta was calling a ceasefire... In pictures - Search for dozens feared buried by Guatemalan mudslide... Crumble in the jungle - Ali-Foreman boxing match venue now in state of decay... Warhol's pivotal years - A major new exhibition focuses on crucial four-year period... Paper review - Phone-hacking allegations continue to be reported widely... Medieval munchies - How an ancient diet could aid healthy eating... Missing in Mexico - Mystery of young women disappearing in Ciudad Juarez... Historical dilemma - How can Italy best commercialise its world-famous Colosseum?... Officials freeze assets of Kabul Bank shareholders, excepting Karzai's brother -
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Struggling to contain an escalating crisis at Kabul Bank, Afghan authorities have barred the sale of Kabul properties held by the bank's principal owners.
Hamid Karzai - ... Car bomb kills 12 at Baghdad military HQ Iraq -
BAGHDAD - Just five days after the United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq, U.S. soldiers opened fire Sunday morning on suicide bombers who snuck into an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.
... Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit -
NAHUALA, Guatemala -- Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.
... Pakistani refugees showing some can-do spirit -
IN SUKKUR, PAKISTAN As ruined lives and landscapes threaten Pakistan's fragile government, another dismal reality might help save it: The refugees from this summer's catastrophic floods have profoundly low expectations of their leaders.
... Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable -
SAN MARTIN DE SAMIRIA, PERU - To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial - from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines.
... Basque government in Spain calls ETA cease-fire meaningless -
MADRID - The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and weakened repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
... Classic cars can cost millions, but are they good investments? -
Peter Mullin, owner of one of the world's largest private collections of classic French automobiles, points to a 1935 Hispano-Suiza J12 Cabriolet sitting among 60 other cars in his museum in Southern California.
... Mine foreman keeps trapped crew on task in Chile -
Luis Urzua went to work as a shift foreman at the San Jose gold and copper mine here in northern Chile on Aug. 5. A month later, the steely 54-year-old has yet to relinquish his command, pivoting to the challenge of organizing the increasingly sophisticated existence of 33 men facing long-term entra
... The post-9/11 life of an American charged with murder -
On the morning of Jan. 26, Sharif Mobley stepped out of his apartment in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, to buy some cereal for his sleeping 3-year-old daughter. The young American from New Jersey was quickly surrounded by eight black-clad, masked operatives from the country's secret police. Mobley
... Drug lord 'La Barbie' takes spotlight in Mexico City -
MEXICO CITY - A ritual is performed when drug lords are arrested here. They are paraded before the news cameras, often with black eyes and fresh bruises, then stand shackled and grimacing between a pair of masked police.
... Authorities struggle to stabilize Kabul Bank -
KABUL - With crowds again besieging Afghanistan's largest private bank after a day's respite for Friday prayer, Afghan authorities on Saturday grasped for a plan to shore up tottering Kabul Bank and avoid potential economic and political turmoil.
... N. Korea's Kim Jong Il expected to introduce son as successor -
TOKYO - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will probably use an upcoming meeting of party elites to introduce his heir apparent, initiating the Stalinist dictatorship's second hereditary power transfer, U.S. and South Korean experts and officials say.
... U.S. troops have left $324 million in back pay unclaimed -
Uncle Sam wants to give free, no-strings-attached money to about 145,000 troops who were involuntarily kept on duty after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but is having trouble persuading them that it's not a gimmick.
... Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate -
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, President Hamid Karzai told Afghans on Thursday not to panic shortly after his brother, a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called for intervention by the United States to head off a finan
... U.S. Marines, British advisers at odds in Helmand -
U.S. Marines and British civilian advisers are waging two wars in the hilly northern half of Helmand province: They're fighting the Taliban, and they're quarreling with each other.
United States - ... U.S. to temper stance on Afghan corruption -
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - U.S. commanders in southern Afghanistan are adopting a strategy that increasingly places the priority on fighting the Taliban even if that means tolerating some corruption.
... Ex-bank executives say their dismissals caused panic withdrawals in Kabul -
KABUL -- The two ousted executives of Afghanistan's largest bank have blamed a hasty management purge for a run on the embattled institution this week.
Afghanistan - ... Bombing in Pakistan kills 65, prompting fears of rising sectarian violence -
SUKKUR, PAKISTAN - A suicide bombing at a Shiite demonstration in the western Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday left at least 65 people dead, triggering fears of an outbreak of sectarian violence as the nation continues to struggle with ruinous floods.
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