International News

Tetris video game 'fixes lazy eye'

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:45
Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the video game Tetris.

Nurses 'warned off' whistle-blowing

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:42
Many nurses face bullying and being belittled when they try to whistle-blow, a survey suggests.

New campaign urges killer robots ban

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:37
A pre-emptive ban is needed to halt the production of weapons capable of attacking targets without any human intervention, a new campaign says.

New leader to 'put Paraguay first'

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:36
Paraguay's President-elect Horacio Cartes, one of his nation's wealthiest men, says he would "never put personal interests before the country's".

Kaufmann wins best male opera award

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:32
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is named best male singer at the inaugural International Opera awards.

Thatcher's funeral: View from above

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:22
How photographer used vantage point at Lady Thatcher's funeral

Remembering the King of Soho

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 17:22
Steve Coogan on his role as London porn baron Paul Raymond

EU 'must not dictate railway plans'

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:49
MPs raise concerns over European Union plans to standardise railways, saying governments should be allowed to set their own transport programmes.

VIDEO: Gay laws challenged in Singapore

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:46
As France's lower house of parliament prepares to give its final view on a bill to legalise gay marriage, Mariko Oi reports on attitudes to homosexuality in Singapore, where there is is still a law against sex between men.

US knives-on-planes policy delayed

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:41
The US transport safety authority delays a proposal to allow some small pocket knives aboard US flights for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.

PM 'proud to be British and English'

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:33
David Cameron says he is "proud" to be English as he marks St George's Day, but also proud to be a part of the UK's "family of nations".

Defending Shakespeare from doubters

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:17
Can Shakespeare's identity ever be confirmed?

Data spies hunt industrial secrets

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:05
State-sponsored industrial espionage became a bigger cyber-threat to companies in 2012, reveals a report into data breaches.

Search powers to target knife crime

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:04
Police officers are to use stop and search powers to target people who carry knives, Scotland's chief constable says.

Mackintosh clocks tick to time again

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:03
A unique system of clocks designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1910 is to be reinstated in Glasgow School of Art.

Rural risk for sleep disorder

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 16:02
People in rural areas of Scotland are at risk of a common sleep disorder but may be going undiagnosed due to a lack of services, finds new research.

VIDEO: Happy goats: How animal rehab works

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 15:45
Testing goats' moods suggests animal sanctuaries work

Ill head leaves SATs pupils stranded

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 15:36
The government is urged by an MP to help pupils in Berkshire who cannot take their SATs tests because their head teacher has been ill.

VIDEO: 'More than 100 people' killed in Syria

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 15:34
British Foreign Secretary William Hague says he is "appalled" by reports that more than 100 people were killed by Syrian government forces in a suburb of the capital, Damascus.

In pictures: WWII re-enactments

BBC - Mon, 2013-04-22 15:25
Vivid WWII re-enactments caught on camera
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