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This channel is automatically updated! http://myprops.org/channels/BBC-News-Most-Popular-Stories/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:20 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ To celebrate the birth of both Darwin and his theory, the Horniman Museum and its partners launched a competition: The Darwin 200 Photographic Competition http://myprops.org/content/In-pictures-Darwin-photo-competition/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:14:38 GMT Is Oprah's announcement that her talk show will stop in 2011 the end of an era or the start of a new one, asks the BBC's Kevin Connolly. http://myprops.org/content/End-of-an-era-for-Oprah-Winfrey-show/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:50 GMT BBC News explains why an accident shut down the Large Hadron Collider in 2008 and how it has been repaired. http://myprops.org/content/QA-Large-Hadron-Collider-repairs/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:37 GMT Israel orders construction work on an internationally financed football stadium being built for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to be halted. http://myprops.org/content/Israel-halts-stadium-construction/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:43:10 GMT The leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago is sentenced to 13 years in prison. http://myprops.org/content/Sears-Towers-plot-leader-jailed/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:36 GMT The Large Hadron Collider experiment, designed to shed light on the cosmos, re-starts after 14 months of repairs. http://myprops.org/content/Re-start-for-Big-Bang-machine/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:44:38 GMT Fingers and a tooth cut from the body of famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found, an Italian museum says. http://myprops.org/content/Galileos-lost-body-parts-found/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:49 GMT The BBC's Paul Wood, on board an EU warship in the Gulf of Aden, asks why the world's most advanced navies have failed to end piracy off Somalia's coast. http://myprops.org/content/Can-Somali-pirates-be-defeated/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:37 GMT Engineers have sent proton particles all the way round the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine for the first time in more than a year. http://myprops.org/content/Beam-sent-round-Big-Bang-machine/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:26:37 GMT A British couple kidnapped by pirates say via video footage that they fear they may be killed within a week. http://myprops.org/content/Yacht-couple-say-they-face-death/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:37 GMT Easyjet apologises after fashion photographs shot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin were published in its in-flight magazine. http://myprops.org/content/Easyjet-sorry-for-Holocaust-error/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:10:36 GMT The UK apologises to Spain after the Royal Navy uses a buoy with Spanish colours for target practice off Gibraltar. http://myprops.org/content/UK-navy-fires-on-Spanish-flag/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16:36 GMT Health officials in Cardiff say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients. http://myprops.org/content/Drug-resistant-swine-flu-hits-UK/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:52 GMT The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. http://myprops.org/content/UK-climate-units-e-mails-hacked/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:39 GMT The six major powers say they are disappointed with Iran's apparent rejection of a deal over its nuclear programme. http://myprops.org/content/Iran-criticised-over-nuclear-deal/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:43 GMT An accident involving Miley Cyrus' tour bus kills one passenger and injures several other people, US police say. http://myprops.org/content/One-dead-in-Cyrus-tour-bus-crash/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:38 GMT A woman guilty of attempting to murder a transvestite in a row over a missing handbag is jailed for 20 years. http://myprops.org/content/Jail-for-handbag-fire-row-woman/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:50 GMT The body of a man found after a bridge collapsed over a flooded river is Pc Bill Barker, police have confirmed. http://myprops.org/content/Body-found-in-flood-is-missing-Pc/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:19 GMT A "devoted husband" with a sleep disorder is declared not guilty after he killed his wife because he dreamt she was an intruder in their camper van. http://myprops.org/content/Dream-killer-released-by-judge/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:39 GMT A transsexual prostitute linked to a sex row involving an Italian politician is found burned to death, officials say. http://myprops.org/content/Italy-sex-scandal-prostitute-dies/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:57:52 GMT Social networking site Facebook has threatened legal action against a site that sells friends and followers. http://myprops.org/content/Facebook-acts-on-follower-trade/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:41 GMT Around 200 football ties, including three in the Champions League, are part of a match-fixing probe, German officials say. http://myprops.org/content/Match-fix-probe-targets-200-games/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:38 GMT Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. http://myprops.org/content/What-happened-to-Second-Life/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:38 GMT Automatic captions for YouTube videos are to roll out across its channels, says parent company Google. http://myprops.org/content/YouTube-gets-automatic-subtitles/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:03:48 GMT Police are injured as Egypt fans' anger over reported violence at a World Cup game erupts at the Algerian embassy. http://myprops.org/content/Riot-over-Egypt-football-defeat/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:05:36 GMT A man who pulled out a woman's eyeball and threw it from an eighth-floor balcony is jailed for attempted murder. http://myprops.org/content/Barbaric-eyeball-gouger-jailed/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:37 GMT Europe signs a $1bn deal with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace in the troubled Niger Delta. http://myprops.org/content/EU-gives-Nigeria-1bn-for-peace/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:27:36 GMT A man with a sleep disorder who killed his wife while he said he had a dream about an intruder is cleared of murder. http://myprops.org/content/Dream-killer-cleared-of-murder/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:18:04 GMT The influential Oprah Winfrey talk show is to end in 2011 after more than two decades on air, her production company says. http://myprops.org/content/Oprah-talk-show-will-end-in-2011/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:17:51 GMT A search is on for a policeman missing after a bridge collapsed in Cumbria amid floods which have seen 200 people rescued. http://myprops.org/content/Policeman-missing-in-floods-chaos/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:46:36 GMT Labour peer Baroness Ashton - the surprise choice as EU foreign minister - rejects claims she lacks experience for the role. http://myprops.org/content/I-am-best-for-new-EU-job-Ashton/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:27:38 GMT A suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills at least 13 people, including a policeman, in south-west Afghanistan. http://myprops.org/content/Afghan-suicide-bomber-hits-market/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:17:35 GMT At least eight suspected militants are killed in a US drone attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say. http://myprops.org/content/Pakistan-drone-attack-kills-eight/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:19:37 GMT South Korean model Daul Kim is found dead at her apartment in Paris, amid speculation she took her own life. http://myprops.org/content/Top-South-Korean-model-found-dead/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:11:43 GMT At least five people are killed in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific. http://myprops.org/content/Deadly-Mariana-Islands-shooting/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:31:36 GMT Across North Africa, dynastic successions are being seen as increasingly likely, the BBC's Aidan Lewis reports. http://myprops.org/content/North-Africas-leaders-keep-it-in-the-family/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:07:36 GMT The US says the appointment of Herman van Rompuy as President of the European Council will strengthen EU-US relations. http://myprops.org/content/US-welcomes-Van-Rompuys-EU-role/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:52:37 GMT A passenger train in India has derailed, killing at least two people, after Maoist rebels blew up a railway track, police say. http://myprops.org/content/India-train-derailed-by-Maoists/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:17:37 GMT Chinese spies are aggressively stealing secrets to help build up China's military and economic power, a US advisory panel says. http://myprops.org/content/China-steps-up-US-cyber-spying/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:59:52 GMT Two lions at a zoo in the northern Czech Republic have killed a rare white tigress after getting into her enclosure http://myprops.org/content/Czech-zoo-lions-kill-rare-tiger/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:59:36 GMT Russia agrees to ease the terms under which it supplies gas to Ukraine, in a deal which Moscow says should prevent disruption. http://myprops.org/content/Russia-gives-Ukraine-new-gas-deal/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:44 GMT Belgian PM Herman van Rompuy is the EU president and the UK's Baroness Ashton is foreign policy chief. What is your reaction? http://myprops.org/content/Is-the-new-EU-President-a-good-choice/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:36:39 GMT The influential Oprah Winfrey talk show is to end in 2011 after more than two decades on air, her production company says. http://myprops.org/content/Oprah-talk-show-to-end-in-2011/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:07:35 GMT Newsnight speaks to a North Korean defector, who says he was an anti-tank battalion commander in North Korea's army for seven years until he fled the country in 2005. http://myprops.org/content/Defector-tells-of-North-Korean-army-life/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:34:37 GMT Police in Peru arrest members of a gang accused of killing dozens of people to sell their fat for use in cosmetics. http://myprops.org/content/Peru-fat-thief-killers-arrested/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:24:37 GMT BBC readers respond to the US president's warning to Israel that expanding the settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem would embitter the Palestinians and make peace harder to achieve. http://myprops.org/content/Obamas-warning-to-Israel-Your-emails/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:20:45 GMT A review of US Army and Pentagon policies is ordered by the defence secretary in the wake of a shooting at a military base. http://myprops.org/content/Killings-prompt-US-Army-inquiry/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:13:36 GMT Internet search giant Google previews its Chrome OS operation system, to be available to users by the end of 2010. http://myprops.org/content/Google-previews-operating-system/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:59:39 GMT President Obama replies to a dissident Cuban blogger who asked him about future US-Cuba relations. http://myprops.org/content/Obama-responds-to-Cuban-blogger/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:13:37 GMT Police arrest a suspected Camorra hitman allegedly caught on camera as he shot a man dead outside a bar in Naples. http://myprops.org/content/CCTV-Camorra-killing-suspect-held/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:56:37 GMT A look at the two candidates selected to be the EU's president and its high representative for foreign affairs. http://myprops.org/content/Profile-New-EU-appointees/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:55:54 GMT Energy-efficient light bulbs lose on average more than a fifth of their brightness over their lifetime, a study finds. http://myprops.org/content/Energy-saving-bulbs-get-dimmer/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:55:37 GMT Labour peer Baroness Ashton has been selected as the EU's high representative of foreign affairs and security, diplomats say. http://myprops.org/content/Labour-peer-gets-EU-foreign-job/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:22:38 GMT A study of mammoth dung has helped unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals to die out. http://myprops.org/content/Mammoth-dung-unravels-extinction/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:34:40 GMT Gordon Brown accepts Tony Blair cannot become the first president of the European Council, Downing Street has said. http://myprops.org/content/Blair-out-of-EU-president-contest/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:39 GMT Hollywood actor Will Ferrell tops a list of film stars whose returns offer the least value for money. http://myprops.org/content/Ferrell-most-overpaid-film-star/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:02:51 GMT Sudan joins a diplomatic row between Egypt and Algeria over violence at a World Cup qualifier in Khartoum. http://myprops.org/content/Egypt-recalls-envoy-from-Algeria/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:02:38 GMT A drug that can prolong the lives of patients with advanced liver cancer is rejected for NHS use in England, Wales and N Ireland. http://myprops.org/content/Liver-cancer-drug-too-expensive/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:23:40 GMT European Council leaders are set to elect a president - but how the role compare with that of the US President? http://myprops.org/content/EU-and-US-President-roles-compared/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:44 GMT An Oxfam exhibition of photographs taken in Peru by model Helena Christensen to document climate change opens at London's Proud Gallery. http://myprops.org/content/In-pictures-Helena-Christensen-exhibition/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:10:44 GMT A computer glitch affecting aircraft flight plans is causing cancellations and delays across the eastern US. http://myprops.org/content/Computer-glitch-hits-US-flights/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:56 GMT Police investigating suspected match-fixing in European football leagues make a series of arrests across Europe, officials say. http://myprops.org/content/Arrests-in-Europe-match-fix-probe/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:39 GMT Russia's ban on the death penalty will remain when a current legal suspension expires next year, the country's top court rules. http://myprops.org/content/Russia-confirms-death-penalty-ban/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:48:37 GMT A South African jewellery firm worker is caught trying to steal gold from his employer by stuffing it in a cooked chicken. http://myprops.org/content/SA-thief-hid-gold-in-chicken/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:53 GMT The BBC's Kevin Connolly looks at how former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is building up a solid fanbase. http://myprops.org/content/Hurricane-Palin-rolls-into-town/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:37 GMT Model Kate Moss has been criticised by anorexia campaigners after suggesting in an interview it is better to be thin than to eat. http://myprops.org/content/Moss-attacked-over-skinny-motto/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:48 GMT A presidential race is on for the top job in the EU. The BBC News website assesses the potential challengers. http://myprops.org/content/EU-president-Names-in-the-frame/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:36 GMT The mother of a British teenager whose body was found on a beach in Goa has been charged with falsely claiming more than £50,000 in income support. http://myprops.org/content/Goa-death-mother-on-fraud-charge/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:07:37 GMT Cambodia has suspended all Thai nationals at an air traffic control company after formally charging one of them with spying. http://myprops.org/content/Air-spat-widens-Thai-Cambodia-row/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:58:49 GMT Growth and recovery are expected in 2010 in most world regions, but the upturn will be modest, the OECD says. http://myprops.org/content/World-economy-heads-for-growth/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:58:36 GMT South-west Scotland and north-west England face an expected month's rainfall in 36 hours, the BBC Weather Centre says. http://myprops.org/content/Flooding-warnings-for-parts-of-UK/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:08:37 GMT Human remains have been found by a team searching for a British journalist kidnapped in Lebanon more than 20 years ago. http://myprops.org/content/Lebanon-finds-UK-hostage-body/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:38:36 GMT US authorities seek the "Geezer Bandit", an elderly man they say has robbed five banks in three months. http://myprops.org/content/FBI-hunting-elderly-bank-robber/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:10:58 GMT Nick Danziger's photographs of some of the thousands of victims of Sierra Leone's conflict, who say they have not been helped, unlike the fighters who committed atrocities. http://myprops.org/content/In-pictures-Recovering-in-Sierra-Leone/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:52:47 GMT A US judge rules that negligence by army engineers led to massive flooding in part of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. http://myprops.org/content/US-Army-blamed-for-Katrina-floods/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:23:37 GMT Six men held over the killing of a woman left dying and mutilated in the street are bailed. http://myprops.org/content/Six-bailed-over-mutilation-murder/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:43 GMT Some viewers accuse the High Street retailer of sexism in its latest ad featuring Ashes to Ashes actor Philip Glenister. http://myprops.org/content/MS-Christmas-TV-ad-offensive/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:02:38 GMT Scientists show off an effect not unlike that of "phasers" in Star Trek - but it only works on tiny worms called nematodes. http://myprops.org/content/Lab-worms-are-stunned-by-phaser/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:34:38 GMT European Union leaders will gather in Brussels later to select their first full-time president and foreign affairs chief. http://myprops.org/content/Leaders-set-to-pick-EU-president/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:14:38 GMT A bomb blast outside a court building in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least five people. http://myprops.org/content/Fatal-blast-near-Peshawar-court/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:08:37 GMT At least three suspected militants have been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, officials say. http://myprops.org/content/Pakistan-drone-raid-kills-three/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:48:37 GMT Thousands of extra police are deployed in Bangladesh ahead of a verdict in the trial of army officers accused of killing the first president. http://myprops.org/content/Bangladesh-tense-ahead-of-verdict/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:00:37 GMT The crew of a submarine made 'dozens of errors' before a collision in the Gulf, according to a US Navy report. http://myprops.org/content/Complacency-led-to-US-sub-crash/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:28:05 GMT US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reveals legislation designed to overhaul US healthcare provision. http://myprops.org/content/Reid-unveils-Senate-health-bill/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:27:52 GMT US President Barack Obama is due to discuss trade and North Korea's nuclear ambitions with South Korea's Lee Myung-bak. http://myprops.org/content/Obama-set-for-South-Korea-talks/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:27:36 GMT A lack of affordable health care means many of Beijing's poorest residents are forced to use illegal and unregulated clinics when they fall ill, reports the BBC's Michael Bristow. http://myprops.org/content/Beijings-poor-visit-illegal-clinics/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:42:39 GMT Energy-hungry television sets will soon be banned across California, in a landmark move by state legislators to reduce energy consumption. http://myprops.org/content/Power-guzzling-TVs-to-be-banned/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:22:37 GMT Regularly drinking alcohol dramatically cuts the risk of coronary heart disease in men, a major study suggests. http://myprops.org/content/Alcohol-protects-mens-hearts/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:42:38 GMT A vicar whose daughter died after being bullied into jumping from a window says he has forgiven her killers. http://myprops.org/content/Vicar-forgives-daughters-killers/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:02 GMT Images from Khartoum, where Algeria beat Egypt to secure a place in the World Cup finals http://myprops.org/content/In-pictures-Algeria-qualify-for-World-Cup/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:38:37 GMT A woman is charged with child sex offences following the investigation into paedophile Colin Blanchard. http://myprops.org/content/Woman-held-in-sex-abuse-inquiry/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:25:36 GMT A thief laughed and appeared to be "frothing at the mouth" as he drove off in a woman's car dragging her along, a court hears. http://myprops.org/content/Laughing-thief-carjacked-mother/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:06:35 GMT A species of skate could become the first marine fish driven to extinction by commercial fishing, say scientists. http://myprops.org/content/Skate-may-be-fished-to-extinction/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:50:37 GMT Afghanistan is at a "critical moment" as Hamid Karzai faces a second presidential term, Hillary Clinton says. http://myprops.org/content/Critical-moment-for-Afghanistan/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:36 GMT The death in prison of a Russian lawyer leads to claims of maltreatment and neglect of inmates. http://myprops.org/content/Row-over-Russia-lawyer-jail-death/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:20:42 GMT A 54-year-old rabbi from Salford offered cocaine to girls in exchange for sex, a court hears. http://myprops.org/content/Rabbi-accused-of-dealing-cocaine/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:02:38 GMT A simple and cheap approach to diagnosing a wide array of medical conditions has been demonstrated by researchers. http://myprops.org/content/Tiny-chip-could-diagnose-disease/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:01 GMT Paul Reynolds of the BBC News website looks at the problem of corruption in Afghanistan. http://myprops.org/content/Afghan-corruption-a-political-obstacle/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:44:38 GMT Two suspected hackers are arrested in an investigation into a computer program designed to steal banking information. http://myprops.org/content/Two-held-in-global-PC-fraud-probe/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:48:45 GMT Israeli authorities bulldoze a Palestinian-owned building in occupied East Jerusalem reported to have been home to two Palestinian families. http://myprops.org/content/Israel-razes-Palestinian-building/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:29:38 GMT