International News

Plans for cycling 'feast' unveiled

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 06:42
The Olympic Park will be the starting point for a two-day cycling festival, which London Mayor Boris Johnson has called a "feast of velocipedes".

Huhne's ex-wife 'very hurt woman'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 06:27
Chris Huhne's ex-wife Vicky Pryce was "a very hurt woman" and felt he "did not deserve to be in the position of responsibility" as an MP, a Sunday Times journalist tells a jury.

Dead Space cheat dents in-game fees

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 06:23
Glitches in Dead Space 3 are allowing gamers to avoid paying in-game charges, undermining publisher EA's attempt to extend the use of micro-transactions.

VIDEO: Robot patients help doctors learn

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 06:12
Life-like robotic patients are being used in central Scotland by doctors and nurses who want to practise their clinical skills.

VIDEO: Australia sport doping 'widespread'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 06:11
The use of banned drugs in Australian professional sport is "widespread", a year-long investigation has found.

Carney: 'Merit' in inflation debate

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:57
The future governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, does not rule out changes to the way the bank runs monetary policy.

Russian jets 'breach Japan airspace'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:57
Two Russian fighter jets have violated Japanese airspace, prompting Tokyo to scramble its own aircraft, Japanese reports say.

Music, TV and digital disruption

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:54
Rory Cellan-Jones on reaction from music and TV industries

Ex-police officer facing Sun charges

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:47
A former Surrey police officer is to be charged with two offences of misconduct in public office over allegations he sold information to the Sun newspaper, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:44
An app that transforms adult newspapers into child-friendly text and animations has been launched in Japan.

More tenants living in private homes

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:40
For the first time since the 1960s, there are more people in England renting from private landlords than from councils or housing associations.

Girl aged 14 'feared rape death'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:36
A woman tells a court how she thought she was going to die during a "brutal" rape when she was 14.

Mars rover spins its rock drill

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:35
The US space agency's Curiosity Mars rover rotates its drill mechanism for the first time, as it builds towards taking a sample from inside a rock.

VIDEO: 'Can we trust Leicester with Richard?'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:23
The leader of Scarborough Borough Council has written to the Prime Minister asking for King Richard III's remains to be brought to North Yorkshire.

VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:18
Michael Gove confirms plans for an English Baccalaureate have been scrapped.

Tipuric in for injured Warburton

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:18
Injured Sam Warburton is out of the Wales team to face France in the Six Nations on Saturday while Ryan Jones returns as captain.

Child sex offending signs 'missed'

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:18
Many social workers, teachers and police fail to tackle sexual offending by children and teenagers because they miss signs of inappropriate behaviour, says a report.

Iran rebuffs US nuclear talks offer

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:07
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismisses a US offer of one-to-one talks on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Peer's 'nuclear intimidation' claim

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:06
A minister says she will look at a peer's claims Cumbria county councillors were intimidated ahead of their vote on a proposed nuclear waste site.

Digging up the buried beer at Hotel Timbuktu

BBC - Thu, 2013-02-07 05:00
Out comes the buried beer, after 10 months of militant rule
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