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| Friday, 16 October, 2009, 20:00 GMT 01:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Ban on 'torture documents' lifted Secret allegations of torture in the case of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee can be released, the High Court rules. |
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| Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Iraqi asylum seekers returned to Baghdad by the UK government are refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. | |
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| Victim of family rape speaks out A woman who became pregnant after rape by members of her family says she was beaten by her mother, who refused to believe her. | |
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| Opel's German aid may break rules The European Commission warns that Germany's planned 4.5bn euro state aid for carmaker Opel may breach EU competition rules. | |
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| UN backs Gaza 'war crimes' report The UN Human Rights Council backs a report into Israel's Gaza offensive accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | UN backs Gaza 'war crimes' report The UN Human Rights Council backs a report into Israel's Gaza offensive accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. |
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| Opel's German aid may break rules The European Commission warns that Germany's planned 4.5bn euro state aid for carmaker Opel may breach EU competition rules. | |
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| LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | MDC boycotting Zimbabwe cabinet Zimbabwe's PM says his party is suspending its participation in government, as a court orders the release of an MDC official. |
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| Bongo calls for 'elite renewal' New President Ali Ben Bongo, son of long-time leader Omar Bongo, says Gabon's elites should be renewed. | |
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| Ghana out to make history at U20 Ghana are aiming to become the first African side to win the Under-20 World Cup as they take on Brazil in the final in Egypt. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Ban on 'torture documents' lifted Secret allegations of torture in the case of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee can be released, the High Court rules. |
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| US troops killed in Afghan blast Four US soldiers have been killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, Nato-led forces say. | |
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| US balloon boy case 'not a hoax' Colorado police say there is no indication the family of a boy thought to have been carried away by a balloon was hoaxing. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Sydney terror suspects convicted A jury in Australia finds five men guilty of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks, after one of the country's longest trials. |
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| Quake shakes Indonesian capital A powerful earthquake strikes the Indonesia island of Sumatra, shaking buildings in the capital, Jakarta, officials say. | |
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| US criticises 'inflexible yuan' The US Treasury criticises China for what it describes as the lack of flexibility of the Chinese currency, the yuan. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Opel's German aid may break rules The European Commission warns that Germany's planned 4.5bn euro state aid for carmaker Opel may breach EU competition rules. |
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| Bosnian Serb jailed for genocide A former Bosnian Serb army officer is jailed for genocide over the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. | |
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| Russia seizes Stalin-era research A Russian professor researching the fate of ethnic Germans during World War II has had all his work seized by security services. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| UN backs Gaza 'war crimes' report The UN Human Rights Council backs a report into Israel's Gaza offensive accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. |
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| Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Iraqi asylum seekers returned to Baghdad by the UK government are refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. | |
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| Court claim over camel 'beauty' A Saudi camel owner sues oil giant Saudi Aramco for $250,000 after a prized beast falls into a hole in the desert. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Deadly bomb shakes Pakistani city At least 12 people have died in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say, a day after a string of attacks. |
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| Mixed messages in hunger report Brazil and China are praised, and India criticised, in a new report on efforts to tackle hunger, published on UN World Food Day. | |
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| Top Indian Maoist couple arrested Police in the Indian state of Jharkhand arrest an agricultural scientist and his wife who are believed to be senior Maoist leaders. | |
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| UK | |
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| Ban on 'torture documents' lifted Secret allegations of torture in the case of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee can be released, the High Court rules. |
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| Hare coursers 'flout Hunting Act' A BBC investigation suggests illegal hare coursing is on the rise despite its ban under the 2004 Hunting Act. | |
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| Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Iraqi asylum seekers returned to Baghdad by the UK government are refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Mother forced son into wheelchair A mother is facing jail after she admitted persuading everyone, including her son, that he had fake illnesses. |
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| Vicar who raped young boys jailed A vicar from West Yorkshire is jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of raping two boys and sexually attacking others. | |
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| Tube worker suspended over rant A Tube worker is suspended after footage of him ranting at an elderly passenger emerges. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Woman injured in car bomb attack A police officer's partner is injured after a bomb explodes under her car as she leaves a house in Belfast. |
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| Major jobs announcement expected A major jobs announcement is expected next week following the recent visit of US Hillary Clinton to Northern Ireland. | |
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| Shots fired during kidnap attempt Police fire two shots and arrest four men during a foiled kidnap bid in County Antrim. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | 'Support' over Lockerbie bomber The SNP minister who released the Lockerbie bomber claims to have since won support for the decision from Labour politicians. |
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| Teacher jailed over rape attempt A teacher who tried to rape a nine-year-old boy during a trip to France is jailed for five-and-a-half years. | |
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| 136,000 hens die during break-in A break-in at a poultry farm near Edinburgh causes 136,000 hens to die from suffocation, police reveal. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Victim of family rape speaks out A woman who became pregnant after rape by members of her family says she was beaten by her mother, who refused to believe her. |
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| Up to 900 car plant jobs at risk Car parts maker Bosch is to start talks with unions which could see between 300 and 900 jobs lost at a factory. | |
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| Jail for cannabis factories gang Sixteen people are jailed for their roles in one of the largest cannabis production operations ever seen in the UK. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Dutch MP hails UK visit 'victory' Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders hails his arrival in the UK as a "victory for freedom of speech". |
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| Speaker defiant in 'gagging row' Speaker John Bercow defends the freedom of Parliament to debate what it chooses amid a row over injunctions covering Parliament. | |
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| 'Support' over Lockerbie bomber The SNP minister who released the Lockerbie bomber claims to have since won support for the decision from Labour politicians. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Opel's German aid may break rules The European Commission warns that Germany's planned 4.5bn euro state aid for carmaker Opel may breach EU competition rules. |
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| Bank of America reports $1bn loss Bank of America, the fourth big US bank to report, says it made a $1bn (£612m) net loss from July to September. | |
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| Halifax estate agents sold for £1 Lloyds Banking Group sells its loss-making Halifax estate agency for £1 to LSL Property Services and says up to 460 jobs will go. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Boyzone bring Stephen Gately home Stephen Gately's body arrives back in Dublin accompanied by his former Boyzone bandmates, ahead of his funeral on Saturday. |
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| Police target hip-hop nightclubs Hip-hop nightclubs in London will face police scrutiny after a rethink of a strategy to prevent crime and violence at music events. | |
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| Sugababes' Amelle 'in a clinic' Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah is admitted to a private health clinic suffering "from a severe bout of nervous exhaustion". | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. |
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| Hare coursers 'flout Hunting Act' A BBC investigation suggests illegal hare coursing is on the rise despite its ban under the 2004 Hunting Act. | |
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| Bad memories written with lasers Scientists use lasers to write bad memories onto the brains of flies, revealing some of the brain circuitry responsible for learning. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay Uruguay has given 362,000 primary children laptops which run on a Linux desktop. |
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| ISP in file-sharing wi-fi theft TalkTalk has been an outspoken critic of UK government piracy plans and now it sets out to prove why. | |
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| Confused message on UK broadband As Finland makes broadband 'a legal right' the UK government appears to toughen up its broadband plans. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | 'No post-jab paracetamol' advice Routinely giving paracetamol to babies after vaccinations may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, research suggests. |
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| Foetal kick charts 'inaccurate' Foetal kick charts, used to check a pregnancy's healthy progress, are inaccurate and should not be used, Irish researchers say. | |
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| GPs not promoting chlamydia tests GPs are not promoting chlamydia screening because they fear it will embarrass patients, researchers say. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Delay formal lessons 'to age six' A major review of primary education calls for children's formal learning to be delayed until they reach the age of six. |
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| Open-plan school hearing problems The acoustics of new schools will have to be improved after warnings open-plan designs make hearing difficult. | |
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| Fewer than half get GCSE minimum Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five "good passes" including maths and English. | |
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| 1996: Handguns to be banned in the UK The British Government announces plans to outlaw almost all handguns following Dunblane massacre in March. | |||
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| 1987: Hurricane winds batter southern England Southern Britain begins a massive clear-up operation after the worst night of storms in living memory. | |||
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| 1974: Maze prison goes up in flames Three prison staff are in hospital and dozens of prisoners injured after rioting and fires at the Long Kesh Maze prison. | |||
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