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Global News Archive for Octomber 2006:
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China Shows Willingness to Punish North Korea for Test
China said today that it would support appropriate “punitive actions,” a harsher step than it has been willing to take in the past...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
3 Explosions Kill 17 in Troubled Baghdad District
The Dora neighborhood had been relatively calm since U.S. troops began an effort to pacify it in August...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
New Maria 'expects bad reviews'
The actress who is making her stage debut in The Sound of Music says she is braced for the wrath of the critics...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Psoriasis 'ups heart attack risk'
Psoriasis sufferers, especially younger ones with severe cases, may be at more risk of a heart attack, a study says...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Parties set for crunch NI talks
Three days of key talks aimed at brokering a deal on NI devolution are due to begin in Scotland...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Oil falls below $59 on Opec delay
The price of oil falls to its lowest level in eight months, as markets wait for Opec to make a decision on output...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Khamenei defends nuclear 'right'
The Supreme Leader of Iran says the country will continue developing nuclear technology...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Six killed in Philippines bombing
At least six people are killed and many more injured in a bomb blast in the southern Philippines, police say...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Bachelet to visit torture camp
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will visit the detention centre where she was tortured, she announces...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Walcott brace nets U21s finals spot
Theo Walcott strikes twice to send England Under-21s to the European Championship finals...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Blasts rock Iraq US army dump
A fire at a US military base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad causes a series of explosions heard for miles around...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Kiran Desai claims Booker title
Author Kiran Desai wins the UK's leading literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for her novel The Inheritance of Loss...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Alzheimer's drugs appeal refused
Alzheimer's disease campaigners condem a decision to reject their appeal for greater access to certain drugs...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Stolen cyber data probe launched
Met Police probe data recovered from a computer in the US found to contain information from hacked UK computers...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Brown supports Straw over veils
Gordon Brown backs Commons leader Jack Straw over his comments on Muslim women wearing veils...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
UN debates action over N Korea
China and Russia condemn North Korea's claim to a nuclear test, as the UN meets to discuss sanctions...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Japan Now Seems Likely to Rally Behind New Prime Minister’s Call for a Stronger Military
Many political analysts say North Korea’s claim of a nuclear weapon test could prompt Japan to seek a growing regional security role...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Angry China Is Likely to Toughen Its Stand on Korea
China’s policy toward North Korea seems to have failed, analysts say, but Beijing still sees highly punitive sanctions as unpalatable...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Dissension Emerges on Responding to North Korea
Japanese officials pushed for tough sanctions and raised the possibility of military action, which China called unthinkable...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Waters tipped to win Booker Prize
Novelist Sarah Waters is the favourite to win this year's Booker Prize, to be announced at a ceremony in London...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
£18m to inspire science students
Projects to encourage young people to study science, maths and engineering receive a multi-million pound funding package...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Fresh look at dwarf planet Ceres
Astronomers take a close look at Ceres - once the largest asteroid, now the smallest "dwarf planet"...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Peugeot plant to close in January
Peugeot announces plans to close its Warwickshire plant in January - six months earlier than previously thought...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Inquiry follows buildings blast
An investigation is under way into an explosion which caused the collapse of two shops in Clydebank...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Student's suicide over overdraft
The parents of a student who hanged himself days after his overdraft was withdrawn, criticises actions by his bank...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
False rape claim woman faces jail
A woman whose false allegation led to an innocent man being charged with rape is told she will go to prison...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Child raped at home, court told
A two-year-old girl was raped at her County Antrim home last week, the High Court in Belfast hears...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Funeral for shot Russian reporter
Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of the investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
China urges UN action on N Korea
China calls for "appropriate" UN action after North Korea's nuclear test claim and refuses to rule out sanctions...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Football: Barton escapes ban
Man City's Joey Barton escapes a ban for improper conduct but is fined £2,000...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Football: England passion urged
Steve McClaren calls for England's players to prove their "pride and passion" when they take on Croatia in Zagreb on Wednesday...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Police find 60 bodies in Baghdad
Sixty bodies are found scattered across the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as a car bomb kills 10 people...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
N Korea test is 'threat to peace'
A robust international response is needed to North Korea's reported nuclear test, says Margaret Beckett...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Surrender plea to serial rapist
Police urge a serial rapist linked to dozens of attacks on women and men dating back 16 years to give himself up...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Microsoft promises Vista security
A senior executive at Microsoft says that its new operating system, Vista, will be its most secure yet...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Cash pledge for talented pupils
Welsh schools with large numbers of gifted children get extra support to help develop their talents...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Little Britain in race for Emmys
Comedy Little Britain helps the UK to gain more International Emmy nominations than any other country...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Watchdog called into mosque row
The Charity Commission is asked to investigate a dispute over money raised for victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Airbus sees 'painful' job losses
The newly appointed boss of Airbus warns there are likely to be "painful" job losses at the troubled planemaker...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Blair defends Straw veil comments
The prime minister defends Jack Straw's opening of a debate about Muslim women wearing full face veils...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Nato chief holds Musharraf talks
Nato's chief in Afghanistan meets Pakistan's president amid claims the Pakistani spy agency is helping the Taleban...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Charity's bomb ad 'insensitive'
A survivor of the 7 July bombings criticises a suicide awareness campaign using an image of the attacks...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
NI hospital hygiene scrutinized
Cleanliness standards at two of NI's 18 hospital trusts are unsatisfactory, an independent report finds...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Grief of hit-and-run boy's family
The father of a schoolboy killed in a hit-and-run speaks of his family's grief and dismay at the driver's actions...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Market bomb kills 10 in Baghdad
A car bomb kills at least 10 Iraqis and wound many more at a market in a Shia district of Baghdad...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Burma restarts national meeting
The military government in Burma reopens its national convention for drafting a new constitution...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Liberia's truth commission opens
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission starts probing crimes committed over 24 years of conflict...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Snooker: Hunter dies from cancer
Three-time Masters snooker champion Paul Hunter dies at the age of 27 after a battle with cancer...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Cricket: Giles on course for Ashes
England spinner Ashley Giles expects to be ready for action in time for the start of the Ashes series next month...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
King pulls out of England squad
Ledley King withdraws from the England squad to face Croatia as a precaution to protect a knee injury...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Brown outlines terror crackdown
Covert intelligence will be used to seize the funds of terrorist groups under measures outlined by Gordon Brown...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
14 arrests over £30m gang raids
Fourteen people wanted in connection with violent robberies in England are arrested...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Judge throws Saddam out of court
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain is ejected from his genocide trial after shouting a verse from the Koran...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Soldiers to get 'tax bill' bonus
Some 15,000 UK soldiers, including ones in Afghanistan and Iraq, are to get bonuses to pay off their tax bill...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Human error caused Helios crash
A series of human errors caused Cyprus's worst airline disaster in which 121 died, the inquiry report concludes...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
China urges UN action on N Korea
China calls for "appropriate" UN action after North Korea's nuclear test claim and refuses to rule out sanctions...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Iraqi Vice President, a Sunni, Loses 3rd Sibling to Violence
The killing underscored just how deeply Baghdad has sunk into lawlessness. Also, a bomb killed at least 13...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Security Council Approves South Korean as U.N. Chief
Ban Ki-moon said the decision was an honor for him and his country, but it came with a “very heavy heart.”...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Sectarian Rivals Optimistic After Belfast Talks
Even more unusual than the meeting itself, perhaps, was that each side seemed cheerful, almost optimistic, afterward...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
News Analysis: For U.S., a Strategic Jolt After North Korea’s Test
The concern is not so much where North Korea’s warheads are aimed, but in whose hands its weapons and know-how end up...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Bush Rebukes North Korea; U.S. Seeks New U.N. Sanctions
President Bush warned the North that he considered its nuclear activity a potential threat to American national security...
New York Times - October 10, 2006
Vision and hearing loss connected
Vision and hearing loss are likely to occur hand-in-hand in older people, research suggests...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Businesses hit by mental illness
Employers in Scotland are losing more than £500m a year to mental illness, according to new research...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
India tightens child labour laws
A new law in India makes it illegal to employ children as domestic servants, in an effort to address exploitation...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Burma dissidents urged to protest
A Burmese dissident group is demanding the release of its leaders, as the national convention resumes...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Putin in Germany for Merkel talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Nigeria VP in the dock over graft
Nigeria's vice-president appears before a special court in Abuja on Tuesday on charges of corruption...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
High tax 'forces firms out of UK'
High corporation tax levels are forcing big multi-national firms out of the UK, the CBI says...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
New appeal for rapist of elderly
Police appeal for fresh information in the hunt for a man they believe has attacked elderly women for 16 years...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
European Union 'faces TB crisis'
EU leaders need to take action against a new strain of tuberculosis, health officials say...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Firms urged to help mentally ill
Employers are far less likely to employ people with mental illnesses, compared to physical conditions, a report shows...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Prisoners' cash plan condemned
A plan to pay prisoners from outside Europe a package of up to £2,500 to leave the UK is criticised...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
Brown urges terror 'step change'
Chancellor Gordon Brown is to order a new approach to seizing the assets of terrorist groups...
BBC News - October 10, 2006
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