Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-12899083
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Naked burglar's court bid fails
A man who broke into two family homes while naked has failed in his bid to have his indefinite jail term overturned.
Ouattara forces squeeze Gbagbo in push south
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara advanced on Tuesday to within 200 km (120 miles) of the two main coastal cities in an intensifying offensive against incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.
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Rosmah: Govt and NGOs must collaborate to help homeless
KUALA LUMPUR: Collaborative efforts between the Government and NGOs are needed to tackle homelessness in the country, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor said.
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Tycoon who used shotgun to silence neighbour's burglar alarm is spared jail after judge calls him 'exceptional man'
When his neighbours’ burglar alarm would not stop ringing, Peter Shalson took matters into his own hands. Unfortunately, he also took a shotgun.
Blundering goalkeepers ?think their hands are wider?
As the ball skimmed his glove and rolled into the back of the net, it was a moment of head-in-hands calamity for the England goalkeeper Robert Green. For scientists, the USA?s equaliser on Saturday evening may simply have confirmed the discovery that our mental representation of our hands is about two thirds wider than they really are.
Jeffrey Archer to auction works of art
LONDON (Reuters) - Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer expects to raise over 5 million pounds when he sells works from his art collection including paintings by Claude Monet and Andy Warhol.
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Gove in partial U-turn on EMA after allowing schools to hand payments to poorest pupils
The �180million a year bursary scheme will replace the Education Maintenance Allowance, which the Education Secretary scrapped last year.
LIFE slideshow: The 1948 Fukui Quake, Western Japan (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - June 28, 1948: The Fukui Quake, Western Japan "On the afternoon of June 28," LIFE magazine reported in its July 12, 1948 issue, "LIFE correspondent Carl Mydans was in the Japanese city of Fukui, 250 miles west of Tokyo. He ?
New app lets parents read to children from afar
LONDON (Reuters) - Parents whose hectic schedules mean they can't be at home when their children go to bed can now buy an app which enables them to read their youngsters a goodnight story or sing them a lullaby from afar.
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Israel eases steps to revoke citizenship
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel passed a law on Monday that eases the process of revoking citizenship in a step denounced as a move to threaten primarily its Arab minority.
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RIM acquires mobile app tool developer tinyHippos
CHICAGO (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion says it has bought Ontario-based startup tinyHippos Inc, creator of Ripple, a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool.
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Derrick Bird?s mother vows to write letters of comfort to bereaved
The elderly mother of Derrick Bird is determined to send letters of condolence to the families of each of her son?s 12 victims, it has emerged.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7150097.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
Tax-cutting blow as CGT to raise �1.5bn less than planned
George Osborne faced a fresh blow over capital gains tax yesterday after it emerged it is due to raise �1.5 billion less than expected.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7149784.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
Sian O'Callaghan murder: Accused Chris Halliwell smirks as hate mob screams
Many of those who had volunteered to search for the 22-year-old were among a crowd of 50 who wept and shouted as Chris Halliwell arrived at Swindon Magistrates’ Court.
Monday 28 March 2011
Will the Dayak votes tip the BN scale favourably?
KUCHING: As rural voters, the Dayak community generally are quite predictable in their voting trend to tip the scale in favour of the Sarawak Barisan Nasional coalition.
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Why everything in the garden is lovely again at Chiswick House
Behind a thundering dual carriageway on the A4 out of London is an unlikely site to have inspired the rolling parkland of the English country garden.
Hit-and-run driver who killed pedestrian, 63, after jumping red light was rushing to bring mother's passport to airport
Phamacist Afzaal Khan, 36, was rushing to Manchester Airport after his mother, who was due to fly to Pakistan, rang him up to say she had forgotten her travel documents.
�9,000-a-term Repton school forced to write to parents as girl, 14, has stomach pumped after binge drinking
Parents were told about the incident in which a group of girls are believed to have downed vodka they had sneaked into the school near Burton, Staffordshire
Speed limit reductions discussed
Speed limits could be reduced on two rural routes in the Scottish Borders in a bid to reduce road accidents.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-12880589
Tunisian president appoints new interior minister
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's interim President Fouad Mebazza named a new interior minister on Monday, the official TAP news agency said, the latest appointment since the overthrow of leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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VIDEO: NI bomb 'could have killed'
The police in Northern Ireland have described a bomb at the centre of a security alert in Londonderry as a "substantial viable device".
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-northern-ireland-12883932
VIDEO: Do politicians act on TV disaster pictures?
Lord Ashdown is publishing a report into the UK's response to worldwide disasters, with a stark prediction there will be more to come after uprisings in Libya and Syria, and earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-politics-12882638
Rockhopper rehab
Oil-soaked penguins being helped in UK overseas territory
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9438000/9438609.stm
UK census 2011 glitch: Thousands frozen out of system after leaving computers
More than 550,000 rang the census helpline to complain about difficulties they were having when filling in the form, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The Fast Fix: Is Romney winning the base? (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - Is Mitt Romney now a stronger candidate with conservatives? To watch more episodes of "The Fast Fix", click here. Get The Fix in your e-mail inbox! Click here to sign-up for the Morning Fix newsletter. Click here for the Afternoon ?
Meet the McMarathon Man (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - 740: The number of calories in a McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. 42: The number grams of juicy, delicious fat in said Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. 26.2: The number of miles in a marathon. Wait ... what? That's ?
Sabah CM says he respects views of LDP, Sabah MCA over Pang?s ministership
KOTA KINABALU: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said Monday he respects the views of state Barisan Nasional component parties on the retention of former Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) vice-president Datuk Peter Pang En Yin in state cabinet.
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How two lion cubs survived their mother's death, a raging civil war and 'cubnap'
The two tiny cubs, a brother and sister, are believed to be rare Berbera lions because of their spotted coats and were confiscated four weeks ago.
Gandhi 'left his wife to live with a male lover' new book claims
The leader of the Indian independence movement is said to have been deeply in love with Hermann Kallenbach, a man he met during his time in South Africa.
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