International News

Horsemeat fraud 'a real possibility'

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:52
Available information on contaminated meat points to fraudulent activity and to Europe, a special meeting at Stormont has heard.
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Caterpillar creating 200 jobs in NI

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:36
The global manufacturing firm Caterpillar is to create 200 new administrative jobs in west Belfast.
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Veteran BBC space journalist dies

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:27
Reg Turnill, the BBC's aerospace correspondent from the beginning of the space age through to the shuttle era, has died aged 97.
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Shanty singer dies after accident

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:24
A Cornish shanty group singer injured in a music venue accident - which also killed the band's tour manager - dies.
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Action call on Irish meat processing

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:19
A former chairman of Quality Meat Scotland calls for the Irish meat processing sector to be "cleaned up" over the horsemeat scandal.
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Sculpture sections arrive on site

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:18
The first sections of two large sculptures, which will transform the Falkirk skyline, have arrived on site.
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Cairngorms death hillwalker named

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:13
A man found dead after a major search for six missing hillwalkers in the Cairngorms is named as a 31-year-old West Yorkshire man.
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Jamaica in crisis debt-swap plan

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 06:02
Jamaica announces plans for its second debt swap in three years in the face of a "serious economic crisis".
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Pope has pacemaker, Vatican says

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 05:56
A day after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, the Vatican acknowledges the pontiff has had a pacemaker for years.
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VIDEO: Inside lab that tests for horsemeat

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 05:52
As authorities across Europe continue to investigate how horsemeat came to be used as a substitute for beef in ready-made meals, there is also a renewed push to tests products for contamination.
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UK weak in school fairness rankings

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 05:41
The UK performs poorly in an international comparison of social mobility within school systems.
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VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 05:23
The home secretary outlines a new code of ethics for the police force in England and Wales.
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Tycoon fails to give police address

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 05:17
An Irish property developer who was found wandering on a country road eight months after he disappeared has left hospital without leaving a forwarding address for police.
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Inter fined over Balotelli chants

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 05:01
Inter Milan are fined 15,000 euros after their fans made racist chants about their old striker Mario Balotelli.
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Cancer death apology criticised

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 04:58
The parents of a four-year-old boy who died of cancer say a hospital's apology over treatment delays is "unsatisfactory".
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Clash over 'gold standard' marriage

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 04:56
Culture Secretary Maria Miller clashes with a Labour MP after describing marriage as a "gold standard" that people aspire to.
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Oliver Twist to be 'reimagined'

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 04:54
Children's favourite Oliver Twist is to be "reimagined" for the big screen as an adventure, Dodge and Twist.
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Day in pictures: 12 February 2013

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 04:46
News photos over 24 hours: 12 February
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Two charged in Chicago teen's death

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 04:43
Chicago police charge two men with the murder of a 15-year-old girl who performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration parade.
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Bulger officer can't forgive killers

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-12 04:42
The Welsh detective who arrested one of the 10-year-old boys who killed toddler James Bulger 20 years ago says he will never forgive them.
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