Bangladesh police arrest activist over 'fabricating information' on atrocities
Adilur Rahman Khan of human rights organisation Odhikar held over alleged falsehood about violence by state security forcesAuthorities in Bangladesh have arrested a leading human rights activist on...
View ArticleAmerican missionary jailed in North Korea moved to hospital
45-year-old Christian missionary Kenneth Bae was convicted of state subversion and sentenced in May to 15 years of hard laborAn American Christian missionary imprisoned in North Korea is in...
View ArticleElection 2013: highlights of the first leaders' debate - video
Highlights of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott in the first leaders debate of the 2013 election campaign
View ArticleThe weekend in pictures
A selection of the best photographs from around the world this weekend
View ArticlePremier League has time to prepare for winter World Cup, says Fifa No2
• Jim Boyce cites European countries that have winter break• Concerns over extreme summer heat for Qatar 2022Jim Boyce, Fifa's vice-president, has told the Premier League it would have more than enough...
View ArticleThree US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Soldiers in Nato-led forces were killed by insurgents in Paktia province where troops are rarely involved in combat operationsThree US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan's eastern borderlands on...
View ArticleTexan drought sets residents against fracking - video
In Mertzon and Barnhart in western Texas, the worst drought in two generations is choking the water supply. Suzanne Goldenberg reportsSuzanne Goldenberg
View ArticleA Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water
Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirstyBeverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the...
View ArticleEydie Gorme obituary
TV and nightclub singer who scored hits with her husband Steve Lawrence and as a popular solo actWith her husband Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, who has died aged 84, was one of the last survivors of an...
View ArticleEric Holder calls for criminal justice reforms aimed at easing drug sentences
US attorney general mandating changes that would eradicate mandatory minimum sentences for some drug-related crimesNon-violent drug offenders will avoid mandatory minimum sentences under proposals to...
View ArticleMassive science projects won't crack the code of the human brain | Kostas...
Grandiose announcements often fail to deliver. Great science comes from great ideas, nurtured in small labsA lot of publicity in both the scientific and mass media was recently prompted by the huge...
View ArticleErwin Schrödinger: the physicist who helped define quantum mechanics gets a...
The late Nobel prize-winning physicist gave his name to the equation that lies at the heart of quantum mechanics as well as a feline paradoxGoogle's latest doodle marks the birthday of Erwin...
View ArticleGibraltar: Britain mulls 'unprecedented' legal action against Spain
David Cameron looks to European courts to help revoke increased border controls, but Spain says it will not back downDavid Cameron is looking at options for unprecedented legal action against Spain...
View ArticleEx-PCC director Stephen Abell becomes the Sun's managing editor
Editor David Dinsmore welcomes Stig for his 'knowledge and experience'Stephen Abell, the former director of the Press Complaints Commission, has been appointed as managing editor of the Sun.The...
View ArticleNeil Heywood family want £5m payout over murder, says Chinese lawyer
Lawyer who has acted for family of Gu Kailai, Heywood's killer, says Briton's relatives have been seeking redress since last yearThe family of Neil Heywood, the British businessman murdered by the wife...
View ArticleSport picture of the day: Tour D'ex-French president
As cycling's profile rises in Britain, with David Cameron pledging £77m of public money, the former president of a more traditional cycling nation gets on his bike
View ArticleMichael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media's reverence of national security...
The former NSA director is held up by the Face the Nation host as an objective authority when he is everything but thatIn 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for having revealed that the...
View ArticleBoy injured in plane crash near historic house
Eleven-year-old was passenger in light aircraft that crashed in grounds of Canons Ashby House near NorthamptonAn 11-year-old boy has been seriously injured after a light aircraft crashed in the grounds...
View ArticleCory Booker: tweets to inspire his rivals for New Jersey senate
Kayla Epstein: With hours to go until a vote, we provide some inspiration for Booker's rivals from a reliable source – his own Twitter accountKayla Epstein
View ArticleIsraeli military intelligence unit drives county's hi-tech boom
Unit 8200, Israel's 'GCHQ', has spawned more technology millionaires than many business schoolsFew people would connect the drab olive green of an Israeli army uniform with the cutting edge of fashion....
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