Archive for the ‘BBC News’ Category

A former UN envoy to Afghanistan says Pakistan’s arrest of Taliban leaders halted a channel of secret UN communications.

Pope Benedict is to sign a letter to the Catholics of Ireland on how to address the sexual abuse of children by priests.

A new bid is to be made in Moscow shortly to find ways of restarting stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Rio Tinto says it has signed a deal with China to develop a massive iron ore project in Guinea.

Dutch officials reject a US general’s claim that troops failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over gay soldiers.

Maternity services for obese women are not good enough and may be putting mothers-to-be at risk, experts warn.

Lawyers for Roman Polanski file an appeal over alleged judicial misconduct in his 1970s US trial for sex with a 13-year-old girl.

US researchers using genetically engineered fruit flies with glowing sperm track the seed’s progress inside the female in real time.

China’s first domestically developed civilian helicopter takes off on a maiden flight in the eastern province of Jiangxi.

Scientists discover a new species of dinosaur that was closely related to the Velociraptor.