International News

Bell hits ton in NZ Test warm-up

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 23:32
Ian Bell makes an unbeaten century as England close the opening day of their only Test warm-up match on 357-7.

VIDEO: How do you train a celebrity nanny?

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 23:25
Some of the most traditional nannies in the land, the uniformed Norland nannies, are updating their CVs with modern techniques for celebrity clients

In pictures: Absent faces

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 23:17
Capturing the grief of relatives of the disappeared under military rule

VIDEO: Syria destruction alarms aid agencies

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 22:39
Aid agencies say they are shocked and appalled by the number of children killed in Syria last week.

Decision due in golf resort row

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 22:22
A decision is due in a legal attempt to block the construction of a £100m golf resort and hotel complex near the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim.

Mexico says 26,000 people missing

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 22:14
Mexico's government estimates that 26,000 people have gone missing since December 2006, a period dominated by drug-related violence.

VIDEO: Robots replace migrants to milk cows

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 22:00
Why farmers are buying robots to milk their cows

Concern over negative-interest suggestion

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 21:51
Concern over negative-interest suggestion

China letter urges political reforms

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 21:45
Some of China's most prominent scholars, journalists and activists release an open letter urging leaders to implement political reforms, for the second time in three months.

Sea Shepherd anti-whalers 'pirates'

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 20:03
A US appeals court says conservation group Sea Shepherd are pirates, ordering them to stay away from Japan's whaling fleet.

VIDEO: Billionaire's plan to rebuild Titanic

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 19:54
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has unveiled plans to rebuild the Titanic in China.

Excess drinking 'is under reported'

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 19:53
The amount of alcohol consumed in England could be much higher than previously thought and more people are drinking to excess, a study suggests.

Strauss-Kahn fails to ban book

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 19:51
A judge in France rejects a lawsuit filed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn which sought to stop the publication of a book written by a former lover.

Bill Wyman photos reworked

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 19:39
How the photography of the former Stones bassist was re-imagined

Healthy lifestyles: Is a hug, shove, nudge or smack best?

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 19:30
Nick Triggle on how councils could get Britain healthier

Spiral-toothed fossil mystery solved

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 19:28
An ancient spiral-toothed fish has been reconstructed from fossil evidence by scientists.

They are Us and We are Them

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 18:52
Images of Prisons, inmates and criminologists

UK link in US 'cannibal cop' case

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 18:47
A former New York policeman accused of plotting to cannibalise women exchanged disturbing emails with a co-conspirator in the UK, a court hears.

Can politicians save Britain's pubs?

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 18:43
Are politicians doing enough to save Britain's pubs?

Action on 'untreatable' gonorrhoea

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 18:04
Health experts in England and Wales are on high alert for "untreatable" gonorrhoea that, in some countries, has developed resistance to antibiotics.
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