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Stolen jet passport 'no terror link'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:23:54 GMT

One of the holders of a stolen passport on the missing Malaysian airliner was a young Iranian, not believed to have terrorist links, Malaysian officials say.

Kerry declines Putin Ukraine meeting
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:09:45 GMT

A meeting with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine will not happen until Moscow engages with US proposals on the crisis, the US secretary of state says.

Children's diets 'far too salty'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:56:24 GMT

Children in the UK are eating far too much salt, with much of it coming from breads and cereals, research suggests.

Carney faces MPs over fixing probe
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:02:58 GMT

Bank of England governor Mark Carney is to be quizzed by MPs over claims some of the bank's officials knew about alleged foreign exchange rate fixing.

Rise in parents fined for absences
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:37:50 GMT

A BBC study suggests there has been a big rise in the number of parents fined for taking their children out of school for holidays

End widespread postal vote, says MP
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:59:55 GMT

Postal voting is marred by "real fraud" and should be drastically scaled back, a Conservative MP says, but ministers insist it will not be scrapped.

MPs debate hospital closure power
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:00:46 GMT

MPs are set to debate a controversial measure which would give the Health Secretary the power to impose the closure of local hospital services.

'Wide variations' in abuse referrals
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:02:04 GMT

There are significant variations across England and Wales in the way police and prosecutors deal with cases of domestic violence, figures show.

New Zealand to vote on flag change
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:51:00 GMT

New Zealand is to hold a referendum on whether to change the 'post-colonial' national flag, Prime Minister John Key announces.

Colorado reaps $2m in marijuana tax
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:15:32 GMT

The US state of Colorado says it collected more than $2m in the first round of tax payments from newly legalized marijuana businesses.

UK joins 'super-microscope' project
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:00:24 GMT

The UK government is to allocate up to �185m on three international science projects.

Four woodlands created to mark WW1
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:43:36 GMT

Four new woodlands are set to be created across the UK as part of a Woodland Trust project to commemorate the centenary of World War One.

Cheryl Cole confirms X Factor return
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:41:20 GMT

Pop star Cheryl Cole confirms she is to rejoin ITV's The X Factor, along with the show's creator Simon Cowell, for a 12th series.

Elephants recognise human voices
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:40:14 GMT

Elephants are able to work out ethnicity, gender and age from the sound of a human voice, according to a study.

MP sex claims and X Factor exclusive - front pages
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:41:41 GMT

Some papers lead on the claims made in court about former Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, while the Sun says Cheryl Cole is returning to ITV's X Factor.

Injured Root out of World Twenty20
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:01:57 GMT

Joe Root will miss the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh after fracturing his thumb in the last one-day international against West Indies.

Murray digs deep to beat Vesely
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:44:27 GMT

Andy Murray survives a scare to beat Czech youngster Jiri Vesely in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.

Froch says Groves is 'paranoid'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:57:12 GMT

Carl Froch criticises George Groves for wanting "neutral officials" for their super-middleweight world title rematch.

Hurricane Fly heads Cheltenham field
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:47:47 GMT

Jump racing's showpiece Cheltenham Festival starts on Tuesday with more than 230,000 people expected to attend the four-day meeting.

We had counselling - Gallagher & Evans
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:04:45 GMT

Visually impaired Winter Paralympic champion Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans needed counselling to stay on track for gold.

Floods 'give UK jobs market boost'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:23:05 GMT

The UK's winter floods have given the jobs market an 'unexpected boost', says recruitment firm Manpower.

VIDEO: 'We are worse off as economy recovers'
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:39:27 GMT

As the British Chambers of Commerce predicts a growth in the economy this summer, the BBC's George Alagiah reports from West Lothian, Scotland, on the differing fortunes of the local community.

RAF jet to monitor Ukraine border
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:57:29 GMT

A Royal Air Force reconnaissance aircraft will fly missions to Poland and Romania to monitor the crisis in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence says.

VIDEO: MP: More of us should go to the dogs
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:26:36 GMT

Young people need to be encouraged to keep greyhound racing going, says a Labour MP who owns seven dogs.

Light drinking 'is preterm risk'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:15:24 GMT

Even moderate drinking during the earliest months of pregnancy may be damaging, according to researchers in Leeds.

VIDEO: Could robots help children with autism?
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:25:54 GMT

A robotic companion is helping children with autism learn and develop communication skills.

Nation split by 'read and read-nots'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:43:24 GMT

England is a nation divided into readers and watchers, a report on adult literacy says.

AUDIO: School 'banned' my anorexic daughter
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:55:53 GMT

An anorexic teenager was prevented from returning to school because staff feared other girls would copy her, her mother claims.

Mt Gox wins US bankruptcy protection
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:57:05 GMT

Mt Gox, the troubled Japanese bitcoin exchange, wins bankruptcy protection to temporarily halt US legal action alleging fraud.

Transatlantic great white 'pregnant'
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:37:08 GMT

The first great white shark seen to cross the Atlantic may be pregnant, the head of the expedition tracking it says.

AUDIO: Moss used as a 'biological solar panel'
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:32:44 GMT

Dr Paolo Bombelli, a biochemist at the University of Cambridge, discusses how moss was used to power a radio.

George Saunders wins Folio prize
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:15:30 GMT

American writer George Saunders is named the first winner of the Folio Prize for his "darkly playful" short stories, Tenth of December.

VIDEO: Dance theatre explores immigration
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:48:08 GMT

Border Tales, written by Luca Silvestrini, uses dance theatre to explore the issues of immigration.

Small Data: Issues with marge
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:28:47 GMT

The government takes the big step of decriminalising the sale of unfortified margarine.

The painting that shocked a suffragette
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:21:06 GMT

A century ago a painting in the National Gallery was slashed by a suffragette who objected to the way men stood around gawping at it.

Fracking camp in eviction appeal
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:07:13 GMT

Fracking protesters ordered to move from a camp near a drilling site in Salford are seeking a right to appeal against an eviction hours before they must leave.

Man dies in speedboat accident
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:13:45 GMT

A man dies and two others are feared to be missing after a speedboat overturned off the Suffolk coast.

Naval base workers in pay strike
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:48:05 GMT

A mass walkout of workers at the Faslane and Coulport naval bases on the Clyde is expected later in a dispute over pay.

Child-killer mother found dead
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:35:33 GMT

An American woman who killed her three children in Edinburgh is found dead in a secure hospital in Nottinghamshire.

Man is injured in city gun attack
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:49:07 GMT

A man in his 20s has been shot in both legs in an attack at a house in Londonderry.

Soldier held over barracks murder
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:21:13 GMT

A soldier is arrested on suspicion of murder after a corporal is found dead at an army barracks in Shropshire.

�280m race circuit in cash request
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:02:17 GMT

Developers building a �280m racetrack in Ebbw Vale are asking the Welsh and UK governments to commit up to �50m towards the scheme, BBC Wales learns.

Public funeral for baby Eliza-Mae
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:02:52 GMT

A public funeral takes place for a six-day-old baby who died last month at the family home in Carmarthenshire where police later seized two dogs.

Pistorius sick as post-mortem read
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:45:31 GMT

Oscar Pistorius is physically sick during his murder trial as he hears evidence from a post-mortem examination on his girlfriend's body.

South Sudan hit by anti-UN protest
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:43:34 GMT

More than 1,000 people have protested in South Sudan's capital, Juba, accusing the UN of arming rebels - a charge it denies.

'Withdraw' major stem cell findings
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:40:51 GMT

A Japanese scientist behind a seemingly groundbreaking stem cell study says the findings should be withdrawn amid doubts over its quality.

Man 'used drone to smuggle drugs'
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:40:03 GMT

A man is arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs into a prison using a drone, Australian police say.

Bayern boss admits massive tax fraud
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:03:22 GMT

Uli Hoeness, president of European football champions Bayern Munich, admits in court that he defrauded the German tax authorities of 18m euros (�15m; $25m).

Spain says rubber bullet use wrong
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:53:30 GMT

Police should not have fired rubber bullets at migrants during an incident in which 15 people drowned, Spain's interior minister admits.

El Salvador vote recount under way
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:59:36 GMT

Electoral authorities in El Salvador order a recount of all votes in the unexpectedly close presidential election as both candidates claim victory.

'Long-dead Mexico drug lord killed'
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:22:11 GMT

Officials in Michoacan, Mexico say that they have shot dead drug lord Nazario Moreno - The Craziest One - who was reported killed in 2010.

Syria rebels free kidnapped nuns
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:49:11 GMT

A group of Greek Orthodox nuns held for three months by rebels in Syria after being taken from their convent in Maaloula arrive back in Damascus.

Israel attacks 'hypocrisy' over Iran
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:12:35 GMT

Prime Minister Netanyahu shows his anger at the West as he unveils a shipment of weapons Israel says were being sent from Iran to Gaza.

US Army sex crimes case in doubt
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:12:04 GMT

A US army judge says the military may have improperly pressed ahead with the sex crimes trial of a US army general.

US court ends 'boobies' bracelet ban
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:17:30 GMT

The US Supreme Court rejects an appeal which sought to ban students in Pennsylvania from wearing controversial breast cancer awareness bracelets.

Day in pictures: 10 March 2014
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:42:19 GMT

24 hours of news photos: 10 March

In pictures: Cornish Bards
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:05:30 GMT

A photographic student's portraits of Cornish Bards

In pictures: Photographing Africa
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:20:19 GMT

Harry Hook's photos of tribes in Africa

Born a refugee: Syrian children of the camp
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 02:48:38 GMT

Syrian children of the camp

Week in pictures: 1-7 March 2014
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:15:24 GMT

Some of the best news photos this week

Day in pictures: 7 March 2014
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:16:59 GMT

24 hours of news photos: 7 March

In pictures: Venezuela remembers Chavez
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:24:55 GMT

First anniversary of President Chavez's death

Your pictures: Nature
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:52:21 GMT

Readers' photos on the theme of nature

VIDEO: House of Commons
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:15:43 GMT

David Cameron says there is still an opportunity for Russia to resolve the Crimea crisis.

VIDEO: Tensions high in Crimean capital
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:16:27 GMT

Tensions remain high in the Crimean capital as Russia cements its control in the region ahead of Sunday's referendum to join Russia.

VIDEO: Sol Campbell: Football abuse 'sick'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:16:40 GMT

Former England international Sol Campbell says abuse he got from fans in his playing days was "sick".

VIDEO: Safe space landing for torch mission
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:09:26 GMT

The two cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky, and American astronaut Michael Hopkins, have landed safely after completing their Sochi Olympic torch mission.

VIDEO: Domestic violence postcode failure
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:08:55 GMT

There are significant variations across England and Wales in the way police and prosecutors deal with cases of domestic violence, figures show.

VIDEO: Malaysia: 'Families want answers'
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:50:25 GMT

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger plane has been widened amid growing frustration among relatives of those missing.

VIDEO: Fukushima - three years on
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:17:06 GMT

Three years after Japan was hit by a massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, is the fear of radiation actually a bigger killer than radiation itself?

VIDEO: Footballers give French lessons
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:47:58 GMT

Two Newcastle United footballers go back to school to give pupils lessons in French.

VIDEO: Pupil punished over wrong shoes
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:24:07 GMT

Schools must consider the financial situation of families after a teenage pupil is punished for wearing the wrong shoes, an AM says.

Do massive dams ever make sense?
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:32:29 GMT

Why do massive dam projects so often go wrong?

Are there really 21 million slaves worldwide?
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:53:55 GMT

Are there really 21 million slaves worldwide?

Cheltenham Festival on track for the future
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:11:46 GMT

Cheltenham Festival tracks bright future

Fukushima: Is fear of radiation the real killer?
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:54:51 GMT

Why loss and anxiety pose more risk than radiation