Turkey to vote on controversial constitution change
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
View ArticleReport finds low resilience in Sunderland and Co Durham
Sunderland and County Durham are poorly placed to weather future economic shocks, according to BBC-commissioned research. The Experian study ranks...
View ArticlePakistan roadside bomb kills nine
A bomb blast has killed nine people in Pakistan's troubled Kurram region near the Afghan border, reports say. The victims were...
View ArticleCumbria faces mixed outlook in tough economic times
Cumbria faces mixed fortunes in terms of coping with the tough economic times ahead, according to research commissioned by the BBC. The...
View ArticleWork to fix west London water main continues
Engineers are continuing to work to fix a water main in west London that burst for the second time in a month. About 20 shops were flooded and thousands of...
View ArticleBlind activist Chen Guangcheng 'freed in China'
A blind activist jailed after revealing rights abuses under China's one-child policy has been freed after a four-year prison term, a rights group said. Chen Guangcheng accused officials in Shandong...
View ArticleMorrisons to test online shopping
The UK's fourth biggest grocer, Morrisons, has said it hopes to trial online shopping and convenience stores...
View ArticleAstronomers find evidence for unusual class of black holes
Researchers say they may have found further evidence for the existence of an unusual type of black hole. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, an international...
View ArticleFibre optic capacity 'auto-tuned' by novel device
Scientists have shown off a system they say could "substantially" improve the data capacity of fibre optic networks. The team says the growth in bandwidth-hungry applications such as YouTube and...
View ArticlePolling stations open for Exeter City Council election
Polling stations have opened in Exeter - bringing the city's bid for unitary status to an end. Residents will elect 13...
View Article'Breakthrough' in bid to save freshwater pearl mussels
A project to save a threatened population of freshwater pearl mussels in the river Dee has seen a major breakthrough. Pearl mussels up to 80 years...
View ArticleResearch finds Teesside has weakest economic resilience
Teesside is poorly placed to weather any shocks to its economy, according to new research commissioned by the BBC. The report by Experian ranks the resilience of English...
View ArticleWoman pulled from house fire in north Belfast
A woman has been rescued from a fire in north Belfast. Firefighters were called at about 0500 BST to...
View ArticleSouth Korea in surprise interest rate hold
South Korea's central bank has kept interest rates on hold at 2.25% following its latest policy meeting. The decision...
View Article'Friendly fire' suspected in Philippines siege
Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages who were killed during a Manila bus hijacking last month. Eight...
View ArticleAlesha Dixon gets tough on new CD
"Pick up your stick," shouts Alesha Dixon on her new single, Drummer Boy. "Hit me with your best shot." The 31-year-old singer has certainly fielded her fair share of blows in her lifetime - from the...
View ArticlePriest "shock" after meeting PSNI "harrassment victims"
A Londonderry priest has said that he has "no regrets" about meeting families who claim they are the victims of police harrassment in the city. Ballymagroarty parish priest Fr Paddy O'Kane said that...
View ArticleManx Wind Orchestra invited to Royal Northern College
The Isle of Man Wind Orchestra has been invited to perform at the Royal Northern College of Music. The group will...
View ArticleMcGuinness 'forgot deathbed talk' with Claudy suspect
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has said he forgot a deathbed conversation he had with the priest suspected of being involved...
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