| Friday, 27 November, 2009, 20:00 GMT 01:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta | |
| TOP STORIES | |
| Iraq war 'legitimacy' questioned The Iraq war was not illegal but was of "questionable legitimacy", a former senior UK diplomat tells the Chilcot inquiry. | |
| Failings over vicar killer case A health watchdog finds serious failings in the mental health treatment of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed a vicar. | |
| Golfer Woods 'hurt in US crash' Tiger Woods is in serious condition after a car accident in Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. | |
| Iran rebuked by UN nuclear body The UN nuclear watchdog passes a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret. | |
| Rappers jailed over warning song Two rappers are jailed for using an internet song to try to scare off witnesses to the murder of a 24-year-old man. | |
| WORLD | |
| Iran rebuked by UN nuclear body The UN nuclear watchdog passes a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret. | |
| Golfer Woods 'hurt in US crash' Tiger Woods is in serious condition after a car accident in Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. | |
| Jump in global swine flu deaths The global number of swine flu deaths jumps by over 1,000 in a week, with an 85% rise in Europe, according to new figures. | |
| AFRICA | |
| Kingdom rejects Uganda land law The Buganda kingdom rejects the new land law passed after heated debate in Uganda's parliament. | |
| Africans 'aiding Rwanda suspects' Rwanda accuses Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia of being unwilling to co-operate in locating genocide suspects. | |
| New SA life for ID suicide family The family of South Africa's Skhumbuzo Mhlongo who committed suicide after he was refused ID, are given a house. | |
| AMERICAS | |
| Rich 'should help Amazon forests' Nine nations in the Amazon region call on rich countries to provide poorer nations with the funds to preserve forests. | |
| Golfer Woods 'hurt in US crash' Tiger Woods is in serious condition after a car accident in Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. | |
| Police seek Thanksgiving shooter Police in the US are searching for a man after four relatives were shot dead at a Thanksgiving party in Florida. | |
| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
| Australia emissions plan in chaos Plans for a new law on carbon emissions trading in Australia are thrown into chaos by an opposition revolt. | |
| Vanuatu PM loses seat in blunder Vanuatu's prime minister is stripped of his post and parliamentary seat because of a basic paperwork error. | |
| China rock star jailed over riot A Beijing court jails Chinese rock star Zang Tianshuo for six years for inciting a riot in which one person died. | |
| EUROPE | |
| France gets key EU Commission job France gets the key internal market post in the new European Commission, whose composition has just been announced. | |
| Jump in global swine flu deaths The global number of swine flu deaths jumps by over 1,000 in a week, with an 85% rise in Europe, according to new figures. | |
| German minister resigns over raid Germany's Labour Minister Jung resigns amid allegations of a cover-up relating to a deadly Nato air strike in Afghanistan. | |
| MIDDLE EAST | |
| Iran rebuked by UN nuclear body The UN nuclear watchdog passes a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret. | |
| US shares slide over Dubai fears US shares fall on worries over Dubai's debt problems, but European markets recover from earlier falls. | |
| Tehran denies seizing Nobel medal Iran's foreign ministry denies officials confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi. | |
| SOUTH ASIA | |
| China carbon cuts pressure India China's decision to unveil carbon emissions target two weeks before the Copenhagen climate change summit puts pressure on India, a minister says. | |
| Ferry sinks in south Bangladesh A ferry carrying more than 1,000 passengers tips over and partly sinks in southern Bangladesh, local police say. | |
| Commonwealth talks target climate Commonwealth leaders meet in Trinidad, with climate change high on the agenda in the last major summit before Copenhagen. | |
| UK | |
| Iraq war 'legitimacy' questioned The Iraq war was not illegal but was of "questionable legitimacy", a former senior UK diplomat tells the Chilcot inquiry. | |
| Final farewell for flood hero Pc The funeral of a police officer killed when a bridge collapsed during last week's flooding is taking place in Cumbria. | |
| Bail hostel contract 'may be cut' The private company which provides bail hostels for offenders and defendants has been warned its contract may be terminated, the BBC has learned. | |
| ENGLAND | |
| Rappers jailed over warning song Two rappers are jailed for using an internet song to try to scare off witnesses to the murder of a 24-year-old man. | |
| Body found after police shooting A body of a woman is found at a flat in Kent following a stand-off at a supermarket in which police marksmen shot a man in the arm. | |
| Live sheep wheeled into Asda shop The RSPCA hits out at pranksters who put a live sheep in a shopping trolley and wheeled it into a London supermarket. | |
| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
| Accused gunman was in Irish army One of the men accused of trying to kill a police officer in County Fermanagh was a reserve soldier in the Irish Army, it is confirmed. | |
| Robbers assault women in her home A woman in her 30s is robbed and assaulted in her home in Draperstown by men wearing balaclavas. | |
| Robinson call for Stormont change DUP Leader Peter Robinson calls for immediate changes to the working of the Stormont Executive. | |
| SCOTLAND | |
| Doctor fined over neighbour row A doctor and his wife are fined for what a sheriff describes as the "worst breach of the peace" he has seen in 20 years. | |
| Drop in teachers 'unacceptable' The total number of teachers in Scotland falls by 1,348 over the past year, according to Scottish government statistics. | |
| Child porn teacher sent to jail A former head teacher who admitted possessing thousands of indecent images of children is jailed. | |
| WALES | |
| Failings over vicar killer case A health watchdog finds serious failings in the mental health treatment of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed a vicar. | |
| Spanish tourists contract E. coli Five adults from Wales are recovering at home after contracting E. coli in the Spanish resort of Benidorm. | |
| Crews try to reach two canoeists Two canoeists remain trapped in a fast-flowing river in north Wales after fire crews save two others. | |
| POLITICS | |
| Iraq war 'legitimacy' questioned The Iraq war was not illegal but was of "questionable legitimacy", a former senior UK diplomat tells the Chilcot inquiry. | |
| Pearson elected new UKIP leader Former Conservative peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch is elected new leader of the UK Independence Party. | |
| Minister's ex-cleaner is charged A former cleaner for Attorney General Baroness Scotland is charged over immigration offences. | |
| BUSINESS | |
| US shares slide over Dubai fears US shares fall on worries over Dubai's debt problems, but European markets recover from earlier falls. | |
| Threshers group axes 2,140 jobs Drinks retailer First Quench, which owns the Threshers chain, is closing a further 391 stores resulting in 2,140 redundancies. | |
| Bank seeks to dismiss fee cases Lloyds says it will ask local courts to dismiss the thousands of cases lodged against it for the return of overdraft fees. | |
| ENTERTAINMENT | |
| Whittle will appear on Strictly Ricky Whittle is to perform on Strictly Come Dancing after being released on bail following an incident in Liverpool. | |
| 'Robbie is engaged' says mother British singer Robbie Williams has proposed to his girlfriend, the pop star's mother confirms. | |
| Rappers jailed over warning song Two rappers are jailed for using an internet song to try to scare off witnesses to the murder of a 24-year-old man. | |
| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
| Herschel 'fingerprints' huge star The death throes of the biggest star known to science have been observed by Europe's new space telescope, Herschel. | |
| Shuttle Atlantis lands in Florida The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis has landed in Florida ending their 11-day mission to the International Space Station. | |
| Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails Details of a university inquiry into e-mails stolen from scientists at one of the UK's leading climate research units are likely to be made public next week. | |
| TECHNOLOGY | |
| Lawyers target 'pirates' for cash Around 15,000 suspected pirates may soon get letters accusing them of illegally sharing movies and games and asking for cash. | |
| Web 'threatens' public services The NHS and other public services must re-organise themselves around the needs of users, say social media activists. | |
| Wikipedia denies editors' exodus The online encyclopaedia disputes claims that the numbers of people editing Wikipedia are in sharp decline. | |
| HEALTH | |
| Sacking at second failing trust An NHS boss in Colchester is sacked - the second intervention to tackle failing standards at top trusts in 24 hours. | |
| MS 'blood blockage theory' tested US scientists are testing a radical new theory that MS is caused by blockages in the veins that drain the brain. | |
| UK HIV cases 'higher than ever' More people than ever before are living with HIV in the UK but more than a quarter do not know they have it, figures show. | |
| EDUCATION | |
| New teachers 'lack secure jobs' A survey suggests many newly trained teachers are struggling to find secure positions in England's schools. | |
| Faith schools 'good on cohesion' Faith group-run secondary schools are better at building community relations than non-religious ones, research suggests. | |
| Drop in teachers 'unacceptable' The total number of teachers in Scotland falls by 1,348 over the past year, according to Scottish government statistics. | |
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| 1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead The BBC TV presenter and co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records is killed outside his home. | |||
| 1967: De Gaulle says 'non' to Britain - again The French President, Charles de Gaulle, says he will veto Britain's application to join the Common Market for a second time. | |||
| 2000: Schoolboy Damilola Taylor dies in stabbing A 10-year-old schoolboy dies after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers near his home. | |||
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