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| Monday, 26 October, 2009, 20:00 GMT 01:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Pilot criticised over Puma crash A low-flying RAF pilot who crashed killing himself and two others should not have been trying the manoeuvre, a coroner rules. |
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| Ministers retreat on territorials Ministers scale back planned cuts to the training of the Territorial Army after fierce criticism from the opposition. | |
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| Homophobic attack on trainee Pc Four youths are arrested after an off-duty trainee officer is critically injured in an attack by a gang of up to 20 people in Liverpool. | |
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| Soldier dies from blast injuries A British soldier has died in hospital in the UK from wounds sustained in an attack in Afghanistan | |
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| Death crash police officer jailed A former police officer who killed a woman while speeding in a patrol car on a personal errand is jailed for six-and-a-half years. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Row erupts over Afghan poll chief Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission. |
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| German on trial for Muslim murder The husband of a pregnant Egyptian woman killed inside a German courtroom tells how her alleged attacker stabbed her in front of him. | |
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| Net set for 'language shake-up' The net is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented forty years ago", the regulator Icann says. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | US bans senior Kenyan official The US imposes a travel ban on a Kenyan official, amid concerns over a failure to look into post-election violence. |
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| Somali threat sparks Uganda alert All Somalis entering Uganda will be registered after militants threatened Kampala for sending peacekeepers to Somalia. | |
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| Zimbabwe talks end 'without deal' Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai ends talks on power-sharing with President Robert Mugabe with no agreement, his spokesman says. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Afghan crashes kill 14 Americans At least 14 Americans are killed and more injured in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, military officials say. |
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| Caterpillar axing 2,500 workers Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, says it will permanently cut 2,500 jobs. | |
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| Uruguay set for run-off election Uruguay heads for a second round of the presidential poll in November between former guerrilla leader Jose Mujica and ex-president Luis Alberto Lacalle. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | S Korea clone scientist convicted A South Korean court convicts disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk of embezzlement over his stem cell research. |
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| Japan pop star trial draws crowd Thousands of people in Tokyo queue for 20 seats in a courtroom's public gallery to see the trial of a Japanese pop star. | |
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| Police reward in 'vampire' murder Australian police offer a reward of Aus$1m for a man suspected of ordering the killing of a self-proclaimed vampire. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Karadzic boycotts start of trial Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic fails to appear for the opening of his trial on genocide and war crimes charges. |
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| Berlusconi faces early tax trial Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is to go back on trial for tax fraud now that his immunity from prosecution has been lifted. | |
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| German on trial for Muslim murder The husband of a pregnant Egyptian woman killed inside a German courtroom tells how her alleged attacker stabbed her in front of him. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150 Iraqi officials raise the death toll from Sunday's bombing in Baghdad to 155 and with another 500 people wounded. |
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| Pakistan 'holds elite Iran force' Eleven Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been arrested in Pakistan for illegally entering the country, Pakistani police say. | |
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| Saudi sex TV producer spared lash The Saudi king waives a sentence of 60 lashes for a female TV journalist who worked on a series about extra-marital sex. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Afghan crashes kill 14 Americans At least 14 Americans are killed and more injured in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, military officials say. |
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| Row erupts over Afghan poll chief Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission. | |
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| Sri Lanka to probe rights abuses Sri Lanka says it will appoint a committee to probe US claims of human rights abuses during the final phase of its civil war. | |
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| UK | |
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| Pilot criticised over Puma crash A low-flying RAF pilot who crashed killing himself and two others should not have been trying the manoeuvre, a coroner rules. |
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| Ministers retreat on territorials Ministers scale back planned cuts to the training of the Territorial Army after fierce criticism from the opposition. | |
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| Homophobic attack on trainee Pc Four youths are arrested after an off-duty trainee officer is critically injured in an attack by a gang of up to 20 people in Liverpool. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Homophobic attack on trainee Pc Four youths are arrested after an off-duty trainee officer is critically injured in an attack by a gang of up to 20 people in Liverpool. |
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| Death crash police officer jailed A former police officer who killed a woman while speeding in a patrol car on a personal errand is jailed for six-and-a-half years. | |
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| Pilot criticised over Puma crash A low-flying RAF pilot who crashed killing himself and two others should not have been trying the manoeuvre, a coroner rules. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Flu jab for special needs staff The NI Health Minister says he is extending the swine flu vaccination to some staff working at special schools. |
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| Writer faces £25,000 legal bill A journalist faces a £25,000 legal bill after a successful fight against police attempts to force her to hand over notes on the Real IRA. | |
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| Newry tech firm buys US company The Newry-based company First Derivatives buys a US-based software firm in a deal worth up to $10m (£6.1m). | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | One in 10 inmates is sex offender About one in ten of all Scottish prisoners is a registered sex offender, according to figures released by ministers. |
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| Soldier dies from blast injuries A British soldier has died in hospital in the UK from wounds sustained in an attack in Afghanistan | |
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| Bus sticks under level crossing Transport police launch an investigation after a level crossing barrier came down onto a bus travelling to Bridge of Allan. | |
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| WALES | |
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| Pilot criticised over Puma crash A low-flying RAF pilot who crashed killing himself and two others should not have been trying the manoeuvre, a coroner rules. |
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| Drugs man's 16 day toilet refusal A man who swallowed condoms full of heroin to avoid detection refused to go to the toilet for 16 days, a court hears. | |
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| Tailgating lorry driver gets ban A lorry driver who tailgated a hatchback car along a busy road is banned from driving. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Tories urge bank cash-bonus limit High Street banks should be stopped from paying "significant" cash bonuses, shadow chancellor George Osborne says. |
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| Ministers retreat on territorials Ministers scale back planned cuts to the training of the Territorial Army after fierce criticism from the opposition. | |
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| Miliband: Britain needs strong EU Britain's influence on the world will "wane" unless it takes a lead in developing EU foreign policy, David Miliband warns. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Crunch post strike talks 'useful' Talks aimed at ending the row over pay, conditions and modernisation at Royal Mail end for the day but will reconvene. |
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| Strike ballot for BA cabin crew Cabin crew at British Airways are to be balloted about whether to take strike action, the Unite union says. | |
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| Barclays buys Standard Life Bank Barclays is buying Standard Life Bank, the offshoot of the Edinburgh-based life insurance company, for £226m. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Lily leads pop charge at Q Awards Pop acts Lady Gaga and Lily Allen scoop prizes at the Q Awards, alongside rock act winners Muse and the Arctic Monkeys. |
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| Sir Elton cancels Wembley concert Singer Sir Elton John cancels his Wembley Arena concert, the third gig he has pulled out of after being diagnosed with flu. | |
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| Leona suspect 'not fit for court' A man accused of assaulting pop star Leona Lewis at a book signing is not fit to attend court, a judge is told. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Particle beams injected into LHC Particle beams have been injected into the Large Hadron Collider for the first time since September 2008. |
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| 'Shuttle replacement' set to fly A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test-flight, despite questions over its future. | |
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| Paint 'to thwart chemical attack' Scientists plan to develop a paint coating for military vehicles which would soak up chemical agents and then decontaminate itself. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Net set for 'language shake-up' The net is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented forty years ago", the regulator Icann says. |
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| End of an era for early websites Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities, a service which gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page. | |
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| Mobile net 'heading for data jam' The number of people using their mobile phone to get online could soon outstrip the capacity of networks, experts warn. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Computer fitness gets approval The Nintendo Wii Fit Plus is the first computer game to win approval from the Department of Health. |
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| Antibody 'fixes internal bleeds' US scientists say they have discovered an antibody that could minimise the damage caused by major traumas. | |
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| Antidepressants 'work instantly' Scientists say they have discovered that antidepressants get to work immediately to lift mood, contrary to current belief. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Career advice for seven-year-olds Children as young as seven are to be offered careers advice under a government pilot in seven areas of England. |
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| Darwin teaching 'divides opinion' Millions of adults across the world think evolutionary theories should be taught alongside creationism in schools, a survey suggests. | |
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| Loans firm tightens debt recovery The Student Loans Company tightens its debt recovery procedures as it writes off £29m | |
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| 1994: Israel and Jordan make peace At a ceremony in the desert witnessed by US President Clinton, Jordan and Israel sign a peace agreement ending 46 years of war. | |||
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| 1979: South Korean President killed The President of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, is "accidentally" shot dead by the chief of his intelligence service, Kim Jea Kyu. | |||
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| 1956: Fighting spreads in Hungary revolution The Hungarian Prime Minister, Imre Nagy, appeals for calm as demonstrators battle with Soviet troops. | |||
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