Poole and Bournemouth Guide

BBC News - World

The latest stories from the World section of the BBC News web site.

• Pike River disaster cause probed

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 06:03)

  A rock fall that released methane gas may have triggered the deadly Pike River mine blast in New Zealand, experts report.

• US drone 'kills 10' in Pakistan

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:48)

  A missile attack by an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan kills 10 suspected militants, Pakistani security officials say.

• Santorum wins double over Romney

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:39)

  US Republican candidate Rick Santorum is declared the winner of Minnesota and Missouri's nomination contests and leads in Colorado, early results show.

• Syria: Assad assurances dismissed

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:27)

  Syria's opposition dismisses assurances that President Assad is committed to ending the violence sweeping the country.

• Key polls begin in Uttar Pradesh

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:25)

  Crucial assembly elections begin in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.

• Call for 'joined-up' elderly care

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:22)

  Older people needing social care are being let down and "passed like parcels" between fragmented services, a group of MPs says.

• Bonuses row 'threatens business'

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:22)

  George Osborne promises to fight an "anti-business culture", warning that the row over bonuses and pay threatens to undermine jobs and prosperity.

• VIDEO: One-minute World News

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:00)

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• In pictures: Karachi whale shark

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 03:58)

  Crowds gather to see dead whale shark that washed up in Karachi

• Libya mission 'could be one-off'

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 02:23)

  MPs say spending cuts raise concerns over the UK's ability to launch another mission on the same scale as the operation in Libya.

• Jamaica melts down illegal guns

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:46)

  Jamaica throws about 2,000 illegal firearms into a furnace as part of a programme to reduce gun trafficking and violent crime on the island.

• Komen boss quits in fund debacle

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:46)

  Karen Handel, vice-president at Susan G Komen for the Cure, resigns over the charity's reversal of a decision to cut funding from Planned Parenthood.

• Theme parks help Disney profits

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:08)

  Profits for Walt Disney have risen thanks to the rising popularity of its theme parks and earnings from its television channels.

• Argentina to go to UN on islands

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:02)

  Argentina will make a formal complaint to the UN about British "militarisation" around the disputed Falkland Islands, says President Fernandez.

• Satellites spy on Europe’s farms

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 00:43)

  How drones and satellites are catching farming cheats

• Change in the air for Italy

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 00:31)

  Can Italy's technocrat government pull off economic reform?

• War victims' care scandal costs Libya dear

     (Wednesday, 08 February 2012 00:24)

  Massive abuse of Libya scheme to treat those wounded in battle

• Profits decline at BHP Billiton

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 23:56)

  Anglo-Australian firm BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, reports lower profits due to falling prices of iron ore and coal.

• VIDEO: Syria risks 'slide into civil war'

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:33)

  As Syrian government forces continue their fierce assault on the restive city of Homs, the BBC's Jeremy Bowen says it risks sliding into civil war.

• VIDEO: Nigeria's lead poisoning epidemic

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:21)

  Some four hundred children have been killed and many more are at risk after the world's worst lead poisoning epidemic in northern Nigeria.

• Euro 'could survive Greece exit'

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:16)

  Pressure is rising as Greece's government once more postponed a crucial meeting to agree tough reforms, and Europe's leaders openly discuss Greece leaving the euro.

• Yahoo board in another shake-up

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:11)

  Yahoo's chairman and three other board members step down as the tumult at the US web portal continues.

• Contador says ban an 'injustice'

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 20:00)

  Alberto Contador says his two-year ban for failing a drugs test is a 'terrible injustice'.

• California court backs gay unions

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 19:57)

  A California court rules that a bar on same-sex unions is unconstitutional, in the latest stage of a long-running battle over the issue in the US state.

• Catholic anger over US pill rule

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 19:51)

  US Catholic leaders strongly criticise the White House over a healthcare rule that would make Catholic institutions cover birth control for employees.

• Iranian president summoned by MPs

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 18:30)

  Iran's parliament summons the country's president for questioning - the first time this has happened since the 1979 revolution.

• New Maldives leader pledges order

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 18:20)

  President Mohammed Waheed Hassan vows to uphold the rule of law following the dramatic resignation of his predecessor Mohamed Nasheed.

• VIDEO: Woman found alive in Lahore rubble

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 18:08)

  Rescue workers in Pakistan have found a 65-year-old woman alive in the rubble of a Lahore factory, 31 hours after the building collapsed.

• 'Suicide attack' on Nigeria army

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:59)

  A man in military uniform blows himself up outside a Nigerian army barracks in the city of Kaduna, which is also rocked by other blasts, officials say.

• Uganda MP revives anti-gay bill

     (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:57)

  The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is reintroduced to Uganda's parliament - without the death penalty but still calling for life in prison for some offences.