International News

Backpacker 'within hours of death'

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 02:40
A British backpacker who went missing after setting out on a run in the Australian outback says he was on his "last legs" when he was found.

Man arrested after Belfast shooting

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 02:33
A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of two men in north Belfast on Friday evening.

Police pilot cuts reoffending rates

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 02:18
A project to cut crime and reoffending rates is rolled out across north Wales after a trial saves £400,000 in "costs to society".

Tribute to house party death man

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 02:09
The family of a man who died following a house party in Wallsend say he was hard working and a lovely lad.

May: Judges 'ignore deportation law'

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 02:00
Home Secretary Theresa May accuses judges of making the UK more dangerous by ignoring rules aimed at deporting more foreign criminals.

Seven arrests for cup tie disorder

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 01:40
There was "a short stand-off" between football fans and police following a cup tie game.

NZ defeat England in ODI opener

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 01:18
Brendon McCullum hits an unbeaten 69 as New Zealand beat England by three wickets in the opening one-dayer in Hamilton.

Red Cross marks 150th anniversary

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 01:08
Marking 150 years of humanitarian aid, the Red Cross says it faces unprecedented challenges due to the complex nature of 21st Century warfare.

G20 vows to tackle tax avoidance

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 00:57
G20 finance ministers meeting in Moscow pledge to crack down on tax avoidance by multinationals, and vow to abstain from "currency wars".

Man charged over murder of man, 76

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 00:52
A man is charged with the murder of a 76-year-old man who was found dead in his Plymouth flat.

Back-to-work scheme created 789 jobs

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 00:22
Fewer than 800 people found jobs through a back-to-work scheme that faces being wound up a year early, BBC Wales reveals.

Anger over Pakistan blast 'failures'

BBC - Sun, 2013-02-17 00:07
The governor of Pakistan's Balochistan province denounces intelligence failures as the death toll in a sectarian bombing in Quetta rises to 81.

VIDEO: Red Cross marks 150th anniversary

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 23:58
The International Committee of the Red Cross, the world's oldest aid organisation, is marking its 150th anniversary.

Brave Rees well beaten by Broner

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 23:36
Gavin Rees is clinically outclassed by American Adrien Broner in their WBC lightweight clash in Atlantic City.

Olympians head to the Job Centre

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 23:25
The Games are over, but what now for 2012 athletes?

UK visa appointments 'sold for cash'

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 23:18
Appointments for the UK Border Agency's same-day visa service are being sold by unofficial agents, the BBC has learned.

Papers consider horsemeat fallout

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 22:02
Papers consider latest horsemeat fallout

Thousands at Moonie mass wedding

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 21:58
Thousands of people are married in South Korea in the first mass wedding organised by the Unification Church since the death of its founder.

Artificial finger grips evolution

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 21:53
A machine that runs an artificial finger across different types of surface is being used to investigate the evolutionary origins of the pattern of ridges on the ends of our digits.

Pakistan market bomb kills dozens

BBC - Sat, 2013-02-16 21:45
At least 79 people are now said to have been killed in a sectarian bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Quetta - the second major attack in weeks.
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