| Kyrgyz reporter death probe call
December 22, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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| | Media groups push for a probe into the murder in Kazakhstan of Kyrgyzstan journalist Gennady Pavlyuk. |
| Trial for Chinese dissident Liu
December 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm
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| | Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is being tried in Beijing on charges of subversion, amid Western criticism. |
| Dangerous driving penalty raised
December 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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| | Justice Secretary Jack Straw proposes increasing the maximum jail term for dangerous driving to five years. |
| One dead, 48 hurt in coach crash
December 22, 2009 at 11:15 pm
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| | One person is killed and another 48 are hurt, six seriously, as a coach crashes in icy conditions on a country road in Cornwall. |
| Body of Colombian governor found
December 22, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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| | A Colombian provincial governor is found dead after the most high-profile kidnapping of a politician since 2002. |
| Funeral for war's 100th casualty
December 22, 2009 at 10:58 pm
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| | The funeral of the 100th soldier to die in Afghanistan in 2009 is to be held in his home town in Suffolk with a guard of honour. |
| Parents make 1979 abduction plea
December 22, 2009 at 10:35 pm
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| | The parents of a teenager abducted from London 30 years ago make a final appeal for information about his fate. |
| Meningitis boy home for Christmas
December 22, 2009 at 10:28 pm
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| | A four-year-old boy who was "purple from head to toe" from meningitis recovers enough to go home for Christmas with his family in Cornwall. |
| Final delivery for the Scout Post
December 22, 2009 at 8:11 pm
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| | After 25 years of delivering Christmas mail in Edinburgh, the Scout Post has closed because it can no longer cover the whole city. |
| Music tuition 'vital' for schools
December 22, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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| | A teaching union contacts every school in Scotland in a bid to promote and support music tuition and calls for funding. |
| Fresh plea over missing man case
December 22, 2009 at 7:46 pm
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| | The family of a man who went missing from his Glasgow flat on Christmas Eve 25 years ago make a public plea for help. |
| Q&A: Colombia's civil conflict
December 22, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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| | The groups and issues behind Colombia's four decades of civil conflict. |
| Battling for teenage hearts and minds
December 22, 2009 at 7:38 pm
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| | As the number of teenagers killed violently in the UK fell this year to 51 from more than 70 in 2008, does this mean the authorities are winning the war against gun and knife crime? |
| 'Legal high' drugs banned in UK
December 22, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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| | A ban on a range of drugs, known as "legal highs", comes into force in the UK, the government announces. |
| Is a white Christmas just a dream?
December 22, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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| | With swaths of the country blanketed by snow, there has been growing speculation that 2009 will be a white Christmas for many. But how common really is snow on 25 December in the UK? |
| Scotland's bad weather continues
December 22, 2009 at 7:22 pm
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| | Further disruption is expected on Scotland's roads because of the continued adverse weather. |
| The new Equality Bill and its implications
December 22, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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| | A new law will require organisations of all sizes and types to promote equality and avoid discrimination in the workplace. |
| University funding cut by £533m
December 22, 2009 at 7:11 pm
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| | Lord Mandelson announces cuts to university funding of £533m in the annual grant letter to academic institutions. |
| 'Busby Babe' Scanlon dies aged 74
December 22, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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| | Former Manchester United winger and 'Busby Babe' Albert Scanlon has died at the age of 74. |
| Old heart patients 'over-drugged'
December 22, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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| | People over the age of 80 are being treated too aggressively for high blood pressure, researchers claim. |
| Teenage killings in UK drop 30%
December 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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| | The number of teenagers killed violently in the UK has fallen by 30%, from 72 in 2008 to 51 in 2009, BBC research finds. |
| Low hormones 'make birth harder'
December 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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| | Expectant mums who are low in thyroid hormone are more likely to struggle with labour, findings suggest. |
| A&E wait tactics 'under attack'
December 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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| | Hospitals are "fiddling" the four-hour A&E waiting time target by using wards as dumping grounds, the Conservatives say. |
| In pictures: Tashkent trees axed
December 22, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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| | Images from the Uzbek capital, where a controversial tree-felling operation has changed a much-loved city landmark. |
| Long-term unemployment 'doubles'
December 22, 2009 at 7:01 pm
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| | The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for more than a year has nearly doubled, the TUC says. |
| Soyuz docked with space station
December 22, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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| | A spacecraft carrying an international crew docks with the International Space Station, Russian mission control says. |
| Facebook US sex scam case bargain
December 22, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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| | A US teenager who blackmailed fellow pupils to have sex by using Facebook images agrees plea bargain. |
| Colombia bid to rescue governor
December 22, 2009 at 5:39 pm
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| | Colombia's president says a military operation is under way to rescue a provincial governor from suspected Farc rebels. |
| Balloon parents must pay $42,000
December 22, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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| | The US parents responsible for pretending their son was adrift in a balloon are ordered to pay the $42,000 rescue bill. |
| US woman held over Obama 'threat'
December 22, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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| | US Secret Service agents arrest a woman accused of threatening to kill Michelle Obama during a family break to Hawaii. |
| US growth rate revised downwards
December 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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| | The US economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.2% in the July to September period, the second downwards revision. |
| Adams' brother hands himself in
December 22, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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| | A brother of Gerry Adams, who is wanted in connection with allegations he abused his daughter, has turned himself into Irish police. |
| Jail for theft care home manager
December 22, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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| | The manager of a care home who stole nearly £20,000 from one of her patients is jailed for 10 months. |
| Fiat unveils one million car plan
December 22, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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| | Fiat unveils plans to increase annual car production in Italy to one million, but will still shut its Sicily factory. |
| Man, 66, dies in flat lounge fire
December 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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| | A 66-year-old man dies in a fire at a block of flats in Sturminster Newton in Dorset. |
| Snow baby born in rescue vehicle
December 22, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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| | A woman gives birth in a mountain rescue vehicle after an ambulance is unable to reach her because of snow. |
| Class C GBL drug ban 'not enough'
December 22, 2009 at 4:22 pm
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| | The mother of a Brighton student who died after taking the drug GBL has said a ban which comes into force on Wednesday does not go far enough. |
| US appoints cybersecurity chief
December 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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| | The White House appoints former Microsoft executive Howard Schmidt as it cyber tsar, following a seven month search. |
| Electric buses for city's roads
December 22, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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| | Three electric buses will provide a shuttle service on the streets in the centre of Durham City from next summer. |
| US Senate votes for health bill
December 22, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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| | US senators pass the second of three procedural hurdles on a major healthcare reform bill. |
| One dead after two-car collision
December 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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| | One person dies in a road collision involving two cars on the A39 in Cornwall. |
| Fraudster forged wife's signature
December 22, 2009 at 3:56 pm
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| | A man who fraudulently forged the signature of his wife to borrow £81,000 is jailed for 21 months. |
| Auschwitz theft 'ordered abroad'
December 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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| | A Polish prosecutor says the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from Auschwitz was ordered from abroad. |
| Officers find 'unstable' escapee
December 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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| | Police find a man who went missing from a secure mental health unit while on a trip to a shopping centre. |
| Criticism over festive tree cost
December 22, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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| | Durham County Council is accused of wasting money, after spending £50,000 on eight decorated Christmas trees. |
| North west roads 'treacherous'
December 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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| | Continuing bad weather has left a number of roads in the north west impassable, the police say. |
| Festive thieves raid poultry farm
December 22, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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| | An Oxfordshire poultry farmer says he is determined not to give up his small holding despite thieves stealing nearly all his birds in the run up to Christmas. |
| Stolen band equipment recovered
December 22, 2009 at 3:38 pm
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| | Almost all of the music equipment stolen from indie-folk band Noah and the Whale is recovered by police. |
| Police replace man's stolen money
December 22, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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| | An RAF veteran from Shropshire whose Christmas savings were stolen by masked robbers has his money replaced thanks to West Mercia Police donations. |
| Calls made over hit and run plea
December 22, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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| | More than 30 people respond to a plea for information over a hit and run crash in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. | | | 
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| Geithner: Tight lending threatens U.S. recovery
December 22, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed confidence on Tuesday that the U.S. economy was on a solid recovery path, but said tight lending practices by banks still pose a risk. |
| Rajaratnam objects to scheduling of Galleon cases
December 22, 2009 at 10:48 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam objected on Tuesday to the government's request to schedule his criminal trial ahead of a parallel SEC case, saying the move could compromise the defense's case. |
| Colombia says rebels murder kidnapped governor
December 22, 2009 at 10:18 pm
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Tuesday FARC guerrillas slit a state governor's throat hours after they kidnapped him during a brazen raid in one of worst rebel strikes during President Alvaro Uribe's government. |
| Drug gang revenge attack kills Mexico marine's family
December 22, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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| QUINTIN ARAUZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug gang hitmen shot dead the grieving mother, brother, sister and aunt of an elite Mexican marine who died after taking part in a raid that killed a notorious drug lord, police said on Tuesday. |
| Honduras' Zelaya stuck in embassy for Christmas
December 22, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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| TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will spend Christmas with his family stuck inside the soldier-ringed Brazilian Embassy where he has been holed up for months after being toppled in a June coup. |
| Rajaratnam objects to scheduling of Galleon cases
December 22, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam objected on Tuesday to the government's request to schedule his criminal trial ahead of a parallel SEC case, saying the move could "compromise" the defense's case. |
| Geithner: Tight lending threatens U.S. recovery
December 22, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed confidence on Tuesday that the U.S. economy was on a solid recovery path, but said tight lending practices by banks still pose a risk. |
| Treasury finds holes in stimulus tax breaks
December 22, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of tax breaks in the U.S. economic stimulus plan may present a big problem during the tax filing season ramps up as the Internal Revenue Service cannot verify who is eligible for them. |
| Treasury sanctions Iraq-based insurgent group
December 22, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an Iraq-based insurgent group that it said threatened the peace and stabilization efforts in Iraq. |
| Mexican relatives die in likely revenge attack
December 22, 2009 at 2:10 pm
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| QUINTIN ARAUZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug gang hitmen shot dead the grieving mother, brother and sister of an elite Mexican marine who died after taking part in a raid that killed a top drug lord, police said on Tuesday. |
| U.S. home sales bolster economic growth prospects
December 22, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes jumped to the highest level in nearly three years last month, the latest sign the economic recovery was gaining steam after growing below expectations in the third quarter. |
| U.S. military defends pregnancy punishment in Iraq
December 22, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military commander in northern Iraq defended on Tuesday a new policy imposing strict penalties, including possible jail time, for troops who become pregnant or get other soldiers pregnant. |
| Colombia's troops hunt for kidnapped governor
December 22, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian troops on Tuesday searched for a local governor kidnapped by leftist FARC guerrillas in a nighttime raid that could test President Alvaro Uribe's security campaign. |
| Demjanjuk trial hears of Nazi death camp horrors
December 22, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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| MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A survivor of the Nazi death camp at which John Demjanjuk is accused of helping to kill 27,900 Jews recalled in court on Tuesday losing his wife after a three-day train journey to the extermination center. |
| EU calls for more U.S. involvement in climate works
December 22, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union called on the United States on Tuesday to play a bigger role in combating climate change, after Sweden described the Copenhagen summit last week as a "great failure." |
| Nestle made misleading drink health claims: FDA
December 22, 2009 at 11:13 am
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swiss food giant Nestle made misleading claims about the health benefits of some children's beverages, U.S. regulators said in letters released on Tuesday. |
| Investigation finds Lithuania had secret CIA jails
December 22, 2009 at 10:54 am
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| VILNIUS (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison in Lithuania where al Qaeda suspects may have been held, a parliamentary probe in the Baltic state found on Tuesday. |
| International community has failed Gaza: aid groups
December 22, 2009 at 10:36 am
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| LONDON (Reuters) - The international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to end an Israeli blockade to allow the territory to be rebuilt, a group of 16 rights groups said in a report on Tuesday. |
| NATO says no deadline for Afghan troop withdrawal
December 22, 2009 at 9:58 am
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| KABUL (Reuters) - The head of NATO said on Tuesday there would be no deadline for the exit of allied troops from Afghanistan, as fears grow among Afghans that foreign forces will leave before their own troops are able to guarantee security. |
| Russia, U.S. plan unprecedented nuclear cut: Lavrov
December 22, 2009 at 5:50 am
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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States plan unprecedented cuts to their Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons under a new arms reduction deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Tuesday. |
| Suspected rebels kidnap Colombian governor
December 22, 2009 at 2:21 am
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian state governor was kidnapped on Monday after gunmen dressed in military uniforms attacked his home in an assault authorities said was carried out by left-wing FARC guerrillas. | | | |
