Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Tuesday, 30 March, 2010, 20:00 GMT 01:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta
TOP STORIES
Man summonsed over Milly murder
An ex-doorman is summonsed to appear in court on charges of kidnapping and murdering 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002.
  Social care 'levy for everyone'
A compulsory levy should be introduced to fund a universal social care system for adults in England, Labour says.
  Legal action to stop rail strike
Network Rail is taking legal action in a bid to avert planned strikes by signallers in a row over jobs and weekend working.
  Blair praises Brown's 'boldness'
Tony Blair enters the pre-election fray, praising Gordon Brown's leadership in a speech to Labour members in his old constituency.
  PM Putin demands bombers caught
Vladimir Putin says catching the organisers of Monday's Moscow suicide attacks is a "matter of honour" for the security services.
WORLD
PM Putin demands bombers caught
Vladimir Putin says catching the organisers of Monday's Moscow suicide attacks is a "matter of honour" for the security services.
  Allawi accuses Iran over election
Iyad Allawi, the man who won Iraq's parliamentary elections, accuses Iran of trying to prevent him from becoming prime minister.
  Collider sees high-energy success
The Large Hadron Collider marks a new era in science as it achieves record-breaking high-energy particle collisions.
AFRICA
Zimbabwe farmers win SA property
South African authorities hand over the ownership documents of a Zimbabwe government house to white farmers.
  Semenya vows to race this season
World 800m champion Caster Semenya says she will race again this season, hours after being told to wait for results of her gender-verification tests to be revealed.
  Sharia court confirms Twitter ban
A Sharia court in northern Nigeria permanently bans a civil rights group from debating punishment amputations on the internet.
AMERICAS
Colombia rebels to free hostage
A Brazilian military helicopter is on its way to collect a Colombian soldier whom rebels have promised to free after 12 years.
  Clinton in Canada Arctic rebuke
Hillary Clinton criticises Canada for failing to invite indigenous groups and Scandinavian countries to talks on the future of the Arctic.
  Ricky Martin announces he is gay
Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin announces he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Diver dies at S Korea rescue site
A South Korean military diver searching for survivors from a warship that sank after a mysterious explosion dies.
  Barbs traded over Rio Tinto case
China and Australia trade criticism in the wake of the jailing of four Rio Tinto executives for corruption.
  Stalemate at Thai red-shirt talks
Thailand's opposition red-shirt protest leaders say peace talks with the government have stopped, for the moment.
EUROPE
PM Putin demands bombers caught
Vladimir Putin says catching the organisers of Monday's Moscow suicide attacks is a "matter of honour" for the security services.
  France advised against veil ban
France's State Council says any total ban on face-covering Islamic veils could be unconstitutional.
  Collapse at Nero's golden palace
Part of the ceiling over the palace of the Roman emperor Nero in Rome collapses, prompting concern over the site's stability.
MIDDLE EAST
Allawi accuses Iran over election
Iyad Allawi, the man who won Iraq's parliamentary elections, accuses Iran of trying to prevent him from becoming prime minister.
  Death penalty over Kuwaiti fire
A 23-year-old woman is sentenced to death in Kuwait for starting a deadly blaze at her former husband's wedding.
  Iran diplomat 'freed in Pakistan'
An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Pakistan in 2008 is freed and returned to Iran, Iranian diplomatic sources say.
SOUTH ASIA
UN report on Bhutto death delayed
A United Nations report into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is delayed till mid-April at Pakistan's request.
  Iran diplomat 'freed in Pakistan'
An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Pakistan in 2008 is freed and returned to Iran, Iranian diplomatic sources say.
  India guru quits after sex claims
A Hindu holy man in India quits as head of a religious organisation after police launch a probe into allegations of obscenity.
UK
Man summonsed over Milly murder
An ex-doorman is summonsed to appear in court on charges of kidnapping and murdering 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002.
  Legal action to stop rail strike
Network Rail is taking legal action in a bid to avert planned strikes by signallers in a row over jobs and weekend working.
  Social care 'levy for everyone'
A compulsory levy should be introduced to fund a universal social care system for adults in England, Labour says.
ENGLAND
Father jailed for child murders
A father who made a farewell video of his two children before he strangled them is jailed for at least 28 years.
  Man summonsed over Milly murder
An ex-doorman is summonsed to appear in court on charges of kidnapping and murdering 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002.
  Nuclear plant proposals submitted
Plans are unveiled for a new nuclear power station employing thousands of people in South Gloucestershire.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Robinson bought 'key land' for £5
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, and his wife, bought a valuable piece of land from a property developer for £5.
  HET needs funding help - Baggott
The PSNI Chief Constable says funding support is needed from Stormont to extend the life of the Historical Enquiries Team.
  Wind brings down NI power lines
About 15,000 homes in Northern Ireland are without power due to the bad weather, NIE says.
SCOTLAND
Snow warning as homes lose power
Blizzard warnings are issued for much of Scotland after severe weather left thousands of homes without power.
  Man held over 'gangland murder'
A 30-year-old man is arrested in connection with the shooting of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Glasgow.
  Men unhurt as tree falls on car
Two men escape without injury after a 50ft tree fell on top of their car in the centre of Edinburgh.
WALES
Island chosen for nuclear plant
Two of the UK's biggest energy providers announce plans for a new nuclear power station on Anglesey.
  Shot scientist unlawfully killed
A coroner records her verdict on a conservationist who was shot dead while studying monkeys in Ecuador.
  Man jailed for having two wives
A man serving a prison sentence has been jailed for nine months after admitting bigamy.
POLITICS
Eighth expenses file given to CPS
The Metropolitan Police says it has passed a new file of evidence relating to Parliamentary expenses to the Crown Prosecution Service.
  Blair praises Brown's 'boldness'
Tony Blair enters the pre-election fray, praising Gordon Brown's leadership in a speech to Labour members in his old constituency.
  Social care 'levy for everyone'
A compulsory levy should be introduced to fund a universal social care system for adults in England, Labour says.
BUSINESS
Irish banks to get fresh billions
The Irish government will inject another 8.3bn euros (£7.4bn, $9.9bn) into the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank, it is announced.
  House price inflation slows down
The annual rate of house price inflation eased slightly in March but prices were up on the previous month, figures show.
  Miners in landmark iron ore deals
Two of the world's biggest mining firms agree landmark deals to buy iron ore on quarterly contracts rather than annual ones.
ENTERTAINMENT
Mills nanny was 'like daughter'
Heather Mills tells an employment tribunal that she treated her former nanny "like a daughter".
  Ricky Martin announces he is gay
Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin announces he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality.
  BBC head should take a 'pay cut'
The BBC director general's pay package is seen as "out of step with the current economic climate", according to a group of MPs.
SCIENCE/NATURE
Collider sees high-energy success
The Large Hadron Collider marks a new era in science as it achieves record-breaking high-energy particle collisions.
  'Roadrunner' dinosaur discovered
One the smallest and most agile dinosaurs yet discovered is unearthed in China.
  Probe sees 'Pac-man in the moon'
The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn catches an interesting new view of the tiny moon Mimas.
TECHNOLOGY
Technical error hits Google China
Google says that a problem with its Chinese service was an internal error rather than an official block, as reports had suggested.
  Sony disables PlayStation feature
Sony says it will disable features of its PlayStation 3 in a move some consider to be a re-emptive strike to guard against piracy.
  Greenpeace warns on data centres
Greenpeace calls on technology companies to use more renewable energy sources to power their data centres.
HEALTH
Social care 'levy for everyone'
A compulsory levy should be introduced to fund a universal social care system for adults in England, Labour says.
  Easter eggs 'may be healthy'
Easter eggs and other chocolate can be good for you, as long as you eat only small amounts, latest research suggests.
  Warning of gonorrhoea drugs risk
Growing antibiotic resistance threatens to make gonorrhoea more difficult to treat, a Health Protection Agency official warns.
EDUCATION
School smacking loophole closed
Smacking is to be banned for anyone working with children outside the family, closing a loophole for part-time schools.
  Teachers bullied by 'hate sites'
Pupils are using social networking sites to bully their teachers, a teachers' conference has been told.
  Call to end boozy student clubs
University sports clubs and societies that encourage alcohol-fuelled initiations should have funding withdrawn, say advisers.
ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES
  1981: President Reagan is shot
President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded when a lone gunman opens fire in Washington.
  1979: Car bomb kills Airey Neave
Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave is killed by a car bomb as he leaves the House of Commons car park.
  1951: Rosenbergs guilty of espionage
An American electrical engineer and his wife are found guilty by the Federal Court in New York of passing secrets about the atomic bomb to Russia.

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