International News

Papers discuss UK's welfare changes

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 21:42
Papers focus on imminent changes to UK's welfare system

Search for miners buried in Tibet

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 20:49
No survivors have yet been found, as rescue efforts continue a day after a landslide in Tibet buried 83 miners as they slept.

Call for higher tax on second homes

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 18:40
The head of the Campaign to Protect Rural England says the tax system should be used to put countryside second homes beyond the reach of more people.

VIDEO: Pope Francis leads Good Friday rite

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 18:15
Pope Francis is presiding over Easter services for the first time as the head of the Catholic Church.

VIDEO: Swimmers brave snow for dip in lake

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 18:15
Snowfall and near freezing temperatures did not deter a group of hardy Germans who braved the conditions to open Berlin's bathing season at the Wannsee lake.

The speeches written but never given

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 17:33
Those speeches written but never given

Murray sees off Gasquet in semis

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 17:12
Britain's Andy Murray beats Richard Gasquet in three sets and will face David Ferrer in the Sony Open final in Miami on Sunday.

Does chocolate give you spots?

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 17:08
Does gorging on chocolate give you spots?

VIDEO: Five Minutes With: Sir John Eliot Gardiner

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 17:06
Sir John Eliot Gardiner on conducting and being a farmer

Week in pictures: 23-29 March 2013

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 17:04
A selection of news photos from this week

Fortnight of fear

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 17:02
Filling the school holiday void with a son with autism

Xi wraps up Africa trip in Congo

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 16:29
China's President Xi Jinping seals a string of deals and promises to boost ties further as he ends a week-long trip to Africa in the Republic of Congo.

Cash shortage stretches to sea bed

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 16:00
The government admits going slowly on protecting wildlife in the seas because of the costs involved.

Tear gas at Brazil World Cup stadium

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 15:57
Police in Brazil uses tear gas and smoke grenades to break up clashes outside stadium built for the 2014 World Cup while other venues are still unfinished.

Hundreds of pigs die in farm fire

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 14:35
About 900 pigs have died after a large fire that destroyed a piggery at a farm, Dorset Fire and Rescue Service says.

Castleford 16-37 Wakefield

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 14:15
Lee Smith scores a try and kicks two goals in Wakefield's 'abandoned' Good Friday derby win at local rivals Castleford.

Gloucester 17-15 Harlequins

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 14:03
Akapusi Qera powers in for the winning try as Gloucester come from behind to beat Harlequins at Kingsholm.

Pope leads Good Friday services

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 13:37
Pope Francis leads services to mark Good Friday as part of the Easter triduum, the Roman Catholic Church's most important festival.

Cyprus eases some bank restrictions

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 13:01
The Central Bank of Cyprus eases some of the restrictions imposed as banks on the island reopened, following an international bailout deal.

VIDEO: Latvian fishermen stranded on ice

BBC - Fri, 2013-03-29 12:59
Latvian rescue services have picked up dozens of people trapped on ice floes that wind drove out to the Bay of Riga.

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