International News

McCallister and McCrea quit the UUP

BBC - Fri, 2013-02-15 01:17
Ulster Unionist Party MLA Basil McCrea and former deputy leader John McCallister resign from the party following the decision to field a unionist unity candidate in Mid-Ulster.

The UK's changing meat buying habits

BBC - Fri, 2013-02-15 01:08
Britain's changing meat buying habits

Granny skills help revival of wool industry

BBC - Fri, 2013-02-15 00:58
Skills taught by grandmothers are saving an industry

Richard Burton's St David's Day star

BBC - Fri, 2013-02-15 00:57
Richard Burton's Hollywood Walk of Fame star will be unveiled on Wales' national day next to Elizabeth Taylor's, the movie legend he married twice.

Sabah stand-off with Filipino group

BBC - Fri, 2013-02-15 00:44
Malaysian troops are negotiating with about 100 men from the Philippines holed up in a remote part of Sabah on Borneo island, officials say.

Drunkenness cases on nuclear subs

BBC - Fri, 2013-02-15 00:40
Navy submarine crews punished for misconduct

VIDEO: Oscar Pistorius arrives in court

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 23:58
South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has arrived at court to face a murder charge after his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, was shot and killed at his home near Pretoria.

VIDEO: Meteor streams across sky in Russia

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 23:52
A meteor in central Russia has caused some injuries and shattered windows, reports say.

Call to decriminalise heroin

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 23:40
One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers says that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on prescription.

Child protection rated inadequate

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 23:29
A Kent council is ordered to make immediate changes to its child protection services in a damning report by Ofsted inspectors.

VIDEO: Disabled piglet gets tiny wheelchair

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 23:23
A month-old piglet from Florida, born without the use of his back legs, is now sporting a custom-built wheelchair to get around.

VIDEO: Actor Le Vell on child rape charge

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 23:14
Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has been charged with a string of sex offences, including raping a child.

Hospital apology for patient failure

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 22:59
A health board is referred to a watchdog after a highly critical report which found it failed in the care of a man with dementia who died four months after he was admitted.

Tight security on Kumbh Mela key day

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 22:58
Security is tightened for another peak day at India's Kumbh Mela festival, days after a stampede killed 36 pilgrims at a railway station.

VIDEO: Asteroid set for record near-miss

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 22:17
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool will race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.

'Third of ambulances' hit by defects

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 21:42
Up to a third of ambulances were off the road in the South this winter due to defects, the BBC learns.

Pistorius murder charge dominates papers

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 21:42
Pistorius murder charge dominates papers

Banksy art recovered in fraud probe

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 20:42
An original work by the artist Banksy is recovered and a man is arrested by police investigating a suspected fraud.

Reptiles face risk of extinction

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 20:38
Almost a fifth of the world's reptile species are at risk of extinction, according to scientists.

N Korea 'upgrading rocket site'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-14 20:24
North Korea appears to be upgrading one of its two rocket launch sites, US experts say, perhaps in a move to test bigger rockets.
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