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| Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 20:00 GMT 01:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | UK passport misuse 'intolerable' Britain expels an Israeli diplomat over the "intolerable" use of forged UK passports in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. |
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| BA boosts flights for next strike British Airways says it will run more flights through the next planned strike as more crew will report for work. | |
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| Cash raised for Anglo-Saxon hoard A grant of more than £1m completes the fundraising needed to buy the Staffordshire Hoard and keep it in the West Midlands. | |
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| Mephedrone 'likely to face ban' The government's chief drugs adviser indicates the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) may recommend a ban on mephedrone. | |
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| City traders arrested in FSA raid Three firms are named in an FSA insider dealing probe - Deutsche Bank, Moore Capital and BNP Paribas - as six people are arrested. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| UK passport misuse 'intolerable' Britain expels an Israeli diplomat over the "intolerable" use of forged UK passports in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. |
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| Obama signs health bill into law US President Barack Obama signs his landmark healthcare bill in a ceremony at the White House, saying it is "desperately needed". | |
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| Ex-SS man given life for murders A German court sentences an 88-year-old former member of the Nazi SS to life in jail for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria leader 'chooses cabinet' Nigerian acting President Goodluck Jonathan picks new ministers, sources say, a week after he sacked his cabinet. |
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| Libya releases Islamist prisoners Libya frees 214 Islamist inmates as part of its programme of rehabilitation, Muammar Gaddafi's son announces. | |
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| Terror suspect 'freed by mistake' Kenya allowed an Australian terrorism suspect to go free after mistaking him for an illegal immigrant, the police tell the BBC. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Obama signs health bill into law US President Barack Obama signs his landmark healthcare bill in a ceremony at the White House, saying it is "desperately needed". |
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| Clinton in Mexico for drugs talks US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading a high-level delegation to Mexico to discuss the fight against drugs. | |
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| China slams Google censoring move China attacks Google's decision to stop censoring search results as its long-running row with the US internet giant escalates. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | China slams Google censoring move China attacks Google's decision to stop censoring search results as its long-running row with the US internet giant escalates. |
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| Suu Kyi 'opposes election role' Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi opposes her party registering for elections, her lawyer says. | |
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| First refugee-citizen for S Korea South Korea gives an Ethiopian refugee citizenship - the first such move in its history, says the UN's refugee agency. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Ex-SS man given life for murders A German court sentences an 88-year-old former member of the Nazi SS to life in jail for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians. |
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| France backs down on carbon tax The French government signals that it is dropping a plan for a tax on domestic carbon dioxide emissions. | |
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| German retirees guilty of kidnap Four German pensioners are found guilty of kidnapping the financial adviser they blamed for US investments that went awry. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| UK passport misuse 'intolerable' Britain expels an Israeli diplomat over the "intolerable" use of forged UK passports in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. |
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| Obama to meet Israel PM Netanyahu US President Barack Obama is to meet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time since a row over East Jerusalem. | |
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| Yemen rally for child bride law Women rally outside Yemen's parliament building in support of a law banning child brides, after clerics condemned it. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Afghan Taliban name new deputies The Taliban say Mullah Omar has named two new deputies following the arrest of his military chief in Pakistan. |
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| Many killed in Afghan avalanche At least 35 people were killed in an avalanche in a remote area of northern Afghanistan two weeks ago, officials say. | |
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| Old Calcutta fire 'kills seven' At least seven people die in a huge fire in the Indian city of Calcutta's famous Park Street, fire service officials say. | |
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| UK | |
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| UK passport misuse 'intolerable' Britain expels an Israeli diplomat over the "intolerable" use of forged UK passports in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. |
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| 'No release' for Yorkshire Ripper Jack Straw tells the House of Commons he can see "no circumstances" in which the Yorkshire Ripper would ever be released from jail. | |
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| Mephedrone 'likely to face ban' The government's chief drugs adviser indicates the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) may recommend a ban on mephedrone. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | 'No release' for Yorkshire Ripper Jack Straw tells the House of Commons he can see "no circumstances" in which the Yorkshire Ripper would ever be released from jail. |
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| Police rescue 'trafficked slave' A woman who was allegedly trafficked into the country to work as a "slave" has been rescued by police in London. | |
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| Red Arrows in mid-air collision A Red Arrows pilot is taken to hospital after a mid-air crash between two display planes during a training exercise in Crete. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Families want panel for UVF probe Relatives of those killed by the UVF in north Belfast want the Policing Board to establish an independent review panel to oversee Operation Ballast. |
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| Plans lodged for £250m gas store Initial plans are lodged for a massive undersea gas storage facility off the coast of Northern Ireland. | |
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| Some PMS savers to get cash back Some savers in the failed Presbyterian Mutual Society (PMS) will get some of their money back by the end of April. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Rise in school placing requests Placing requests made by parents of Scottish primary and secondary pupils rose by nearly 5% in a year, figures show. |
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| Dead baby was 'repeatedly abused' An expert tells a murder trial that a five-month-old girl suffered repeated physical abuse before she died. | |
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| Bombs force port site evacuation The discovery of WWII shells forces the evacuation of a ferry port building site, while bomb disposal experts investigate. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Pet shock collars banned in Wales People caught using electric shock collars on dogs and cats in Wales now face fine of up to £20,000 or six months in prison. |
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| Experts stay at social services Outside experts will continue to oversee a council's social services department a year after first being appointed. | |
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| JoJo Maman Bebe boss wins award The founder of a nursery retail company who urges her staff not to take a "jobsworth" approach to work wins a top award. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Cameron: Scandal worse than 1990s David Cameron says the "scandals" besetting Labour are "worse" than 1990s sleaze, but his inquiry calls are rebuffed. |
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| MPs' foreign visit rules breached The BBC uncovers hundreds of parliamentary rule breaches by MPs who accepted free trips abroad from foreign governments. | |
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| UK passport misuse 'intolerable' Britain expels an Israeli diplomat over the "intolerable" use of forged UK passports in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | BA boosts flights for next strike British Airways says it will run more flights through the next planned strike as more crew will report for work. |
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| City traders arrested in FSA raid Three firms are named in an FSA insider dealing probe - Deutsche Bank, Moore Capital and BNP Paribas - as six people are arrested. | |
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| Pay cuts for US bailed-out bosses White House pay tsar tells bosses at five bailed-out firms to take a 15% drop in pay after calling AIG's latest round of bonus payments 'outrageous'. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Jackson account is 'inconsistent' A lawyer acting for Dr Conrad Murray, who is charged with the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, criticises a leaked witness statement. |
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| Dr Who boss unworried by squeeze Steven Moffat says belt-tightening the budget for Doctor Who has forced its production team to be more creative. | |
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| Actor Lee ordered to pay £640,000 Actor Sir Christopher Lee has been ordered by a court in Spain to pay £640,000 to an illustrator for work he did for a DVD cover. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | 'Muscular' UK Space Agency set up Britain establishes its new executive space agency, to put space policy in the hands of one co-ordinating authority. |
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| Dinosaur rise linked to volcanism Massive volcanic activity may have helped dinosaurs rise to prominence more than 200 million years ago, a study argues. | |
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| 'God particle' hunt set to start The organisation that operates the Large Hadron Collider has set a date for the start of its science programme. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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| China slams Google censoring move China attacks Google's decision to stop censoring search results as its long-running row with the US internet giant escalates. |
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| Nintendo unveils 3D DS The console maker is to offer gamers the chance to play 3D games without having to wear special glasses. | |
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| Firefox releases security patch Web browser maker Mozilla has brought forward the launch of version 3.6.2 of Firefox after security issues discovered. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Mephedrone 'likely to face ban' The government's chief drugs adviser indicates the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) may recommend a ban on mephedrone. |
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| GPs call for longer appointments GPs call for longer appointments to treat the increasing number of patients with long-term health conditions. | |
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| A&E target 'risks patient safety' Doctors say one of the key NHS targets for A&E in England is compromising care and patient safety. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Tories call for A-level reforms A-levels need to be overhauled as part of measures to "restore confidence" in testing, says shadow schools secretary Michael Gove. |
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| Child's play 'a political issue' Children's access to safe places to play outdoors should be treated as a serious political issue, say campaigners. | |
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| Students test 'legal high' drug Fifty users of the drug mephedrone are being recruited by psychologists in Liverpool for a study into the effects of its high. | |
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| 1987: 30 hurt as car bomb hits Army base More than 30 people are injured in a car bomb explosion at the UK Army headquarters in Rheindahlen, West Germany. | |||
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| 1983: Reagan launches Cold War into space President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space. | |||
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| 1981: New measures to contain farm disease The government bans all animal transport to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. | |||
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