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Rain tracked with mobile network

Mon, 2013-02-04 12:17
Researchers show that an idea to produce high-quality rainfall maps using nothing more than mobile phone mast signals works - across a whole country.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Argentina pegs supermarket prices

Mon, 2013-02-04 11:59
The Argentine government has ordered a two-month price freeze on all products in the country's main supermarket chains.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Canada stops distributing pennies

Mon, 2013-02-04 11:33
The Canadian penny is withdrawn from circulation as production costs exceed its monetary value, although it will remain legal tender.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: 'God has given me a second life'

Mon, 2013-02-04 11:19
Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot and wounded by the Taliban in Pakistan after campaigning for womens' rights, says she has been given a 'second life'.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Osborne backs bank break-up powers

Mon, 2013-02-04 11:16
Banks will be broken up if they do not follow new rules to ring-fence risky investment operations from High Street operations, the chancellor has announced.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Alabama hostage stand-off continues

Mon, 2013-02-04 11:14
Hostage negotiators in the US are trying to secure the release of a five-year-old boy who was kidnapped seven days ago. Police say he is being held captive in a bunker in Alabama.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Murray targets Paris over GB tie

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:59
Andy Murray's belief that he can lift his second Grand Slam title by winning the French Open led to him opting out of Davis Cup duty.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Web health check 'broken promise'

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:51
An offer of health checks on the internet to people aged over 50 by the Welsh government prompts accusations of a broken promise by the opposition.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Shot Malala 'now recovering well'

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:39
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban tells how she is recovering well hours after undergoing a five-hour operation.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Man jailed for brutal baby attack

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:32
A man who beat a one-month-old boy in a "murderous rage" giving him 26 rib fractures, is jailed for 10 years.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Ice alert as snow, gales forecast

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:16
Motorists are warned that ice could cause travel problems across parts of Wales as temperatures plunge, with snow expected in some areas.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Earth's close brush with asteroid

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:15
A rock which weighs about as much as an aircraft carrier is approaching Earth - but there is no danger of a direct strike.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Greece probes police 'beatings'

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:07
Greece launches an inquiry into whether four suspected bank robbers were beaten in police custody, after their altered mug shots are released.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Dylan Hall: Thai internet sensation

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:02
Three-year-old Dylan Hall became an internet sensation in Thailand after his parents posted a video of him on YouTube reciting the Thai alphabet.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Ahmadinejad offers to go to space

Mon, 2013-02-04 10:01
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad volunteers to become the first person sent into space by his country's fledgling space programme.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Sandy Hook pupils sing at Super Bowl

Mon, 2013-02-04 09:55
Pupils from Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, performed at the Super Bowl XLVII. Their school was the scene of a mass shooting in which 20 children died.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Drug warning after teenager dies

Mon, 2013-02-04 09:52
A warning is issued to drug users after a form of ecstasy known as "green apples" leaves one teenager dead and another seriously ill.
Categories: International News, National / International News

'Faulty cot' caused baby's death

Mon, 2013-02-04 09:51
An inquiry into the death of an eight-month-old baby hears from a safety expert that a faulty cot was to blame for the tragedy.
Categories: International News, National / International News

IRA supergrass 'not abandoned'

Mon, 2013-02-04 09:50
The case of an IRA informer who said he was abandoned by MI5 is rejected by a tribunal which considers complaints against the security services.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Four hurt in 'fire and explosion'

Mon, 2013-02-04 09:48
Four people are injured after a fire and explosion in south-west London, emergency crews say.
Categories: International News, National / International News
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