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Global News Archive for Octomber 2004:
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Foundation trust records deficit
One of the first foundation NHS trusts is facing intervention after recording a budget deficit...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Results changed to boost learning
Wider recognition of work-related qualifications aims to encourage schools to make more use of them...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Human gene number slashed
Human genome researchers have said we have about 10,000 or 20,000 fewer genes than they originally estimated...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Bookies take bets on new Band Aid
Bookies take bets on a new Band Aid single being Christmas No 1, expected to be confirmed by Midge Ure...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Typhoon slams into southern Japan
About 20 people die and dozens of others are missing after a huge typhoon hits south-west Japan...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Iran 'to unveil new nuclear deal'
Iran says it is ready to offer new proposals to meet international concern about its nuclear programme...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Liverpool votes for smoking ban
Liverpool city councillors decide to push for a new law outlawing smoking in public spaces...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Glenmorangie snapped up for £300m
One of Scotland's last independent distillers is to be bought by French drinks firm Moet Hennessy...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Fight for toddler's mobility cash
An MP launches a campaign to allow disabled children under three to qualify for mobility allowance...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Arsenal held in Athens
Jens Lehmann is at fault as below-par Arsenal twice surrender the lead at Panathinaikos...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Football: Chelsea win in Moscow
Chelsea are poised to reach the Champions League knockout phase after beating CSKA Moscow...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
F1: Button must stay with BAR
BAR win their fight with Williams for Jenson Button to drive for them next season...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Go ahead for more Darfur troops
The African Union agrees to boost its force in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan to more than 3,000...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Four dead in car quarry plunge
Four adults are killed when a car plunges into a quarry after coming off a road and rolling down a slope...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Love admits guilt over gig fracas
Courtney Love is given a conditional discharge after admitting hitting a man with a microphone stand...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Brother's tissue 'cures' sick boy
British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare disorder by transplanting cells from his baby brother...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
US rivals blitz Iowa battleground
US presidential rivals George W Bush and John Kerry will both campaign in Iowa, a key swing state, on Wednesday...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Video shows Madrid attack horror
Video footage of the moment bombs exploded in a Madrid train station is released in Spain...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Lebanese PM and cabinet resign
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his cabinet resign, ending weeks of political uncertainty...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Jobs boost for software firm
A software company is to create more than 660 jobs in Belfast and the north-west region...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
HIV figures reach record number
The number of people in Scotland diagnosed with HIV rises to the highest quarterly total on record...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Two-hour GP wait for woman, 84
A great-grandmother with chest pains says she waited two hours for a call from an out-of-hours doctor service...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
GM workers in Germany resume work
Workers at a General Motors' plant in Germany return to work after a strike over job cuts hits production elsewhere...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Kilroy says he won't keep quiet
UKIP leader Roger Knapman claims branch chairmen back him but Robert Kilroy-Silk says he will not be quiet...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Grading doubts over diploma plan
Awarding grades for a proposed diploma for 14 to 19 year olds will be "meaningless", an exam board warns...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Plasma beam for 90-day Mars visit
Advocates of a propulsion idea for spacecraft claim that it would enable a 90-day round trip to Mars...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Users face new phishing threats
Cyber criminals could soon be mounting sophisticated phishing attacks that are hard to detect warn experts...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Record ratings for Little Britain
The new series of comedy Little Britain draws a record 1.8 million audience for digital channel BBC Three...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Man stabbed fending off burglar
A man is stabbed to death in his home by an intruder who police believe could have been a burglar...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Skateboarder killed in 'road rage'
A motorist admits the murder of a teenage skateboarder in a road rage attack in north Wales...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Russian army bullying 'horrific'
The ritual of organised bullying in the Russian army is getting worse, an international rights group warns...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Tennis: Henman beats Costa
Top seed Tim Henman beats Albert Costa 6-4 6-2 in the Madrid Masters second round...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
F1: Bernie ends British GP talks
Jackie Stewart rejects Bernie Ecclestone's claims that the British Grand Prix is dead...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Football: Adams warns Gunners
Arsenal legend Tony Adams feels Arsene Wenger must change his tactics to succeed in the Champions League...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Nigerian bishop's anger at church
The leader of the world's second biggest Anglican church attacks a report into the ordaining of gay bishops...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Japan typhoon leaves 15 dead
At least 15 people die and several others are missing after a huge typhoon hits south-west Japan...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Columnist Lynda Lee-Potter dies
One of the country's best-read newspaper columnists dies after suffering from a brain tumour...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Man's body found after RAF alert
Police recover the body of an RAF serviceman at an air base which was closed after a security alert...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Blair challenged on troops move
Tony Blair faces demands for a Commons vote on whether UK forces should provide back-up for the US in Iraq...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Paul Bigley tells Johnson to quit
Ken Bigley's brother Paul tells Tory MP Boris Johnson he is a "self-centred pompous twit" for his comments on Liverpool...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Kiln's 'ancestor' found in Greece
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest clay "fireplaces" made by humans at a dig in southern Greece...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Ads in video games set to rise
Ads in video games are becoming a lucrative area for firms trying to reach young people...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Radiation risks 'need updating'
A UK panel examining radiation risks says official estimates of the dangers to health may be wide of the mark - but not substantially...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
General defends Iraq troops plan
It makes military sense for the UK to accept a US request for troops south of Baghdad, says the top British soldier in Iraq...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Oil wealth 'can cause corruption'
Oil wealth can often lead to corruption, according to the latest survey by anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Legendary bandit buried in India
The funeral of India's most notorious bandit, Veerappan, takes place at a village in southern Tamil Nadu state...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Activists urged to stop protests
Animal rights campaigners are asked to call off a protest following the theft of a woman's body from a grave...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Greens plan 'zero waste' campaign
The Scottish Green Party is to unveil its plans for a campaign to make Scotland a waste-free country...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Pupils in hospital after bus fire
Fourteen children are taken to hospital with smoke inhalation after a fire on the bus taking them to school...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
RAF base shut over rifle incident
One of the RAF's biggest air bases in the UK is shut because of an incident involving a man with a rifle...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Loss of funds 'could cut police'
Senior officers warn a looming £350m budget shortfall could bring a reduction in the number of police on the beat...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
House market slowing, lenders say
Mortgage lending fell 4% in September, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says - a further sign that the housing market is slowing...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Rugby: Coach backs Wilkinson
England's new coach says he is happy with Jonny Wilkinson's recovery from injury...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Football: Ferguson frustrated
Man Utd's Sir Alex Ferguson is frustrated with the 0-0 draw against Sparta Prague...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Big fall in corruption in Kenya
The Kenyan government's campaign to tackle corruption appears to be having some success, says Transparency International...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Indonesian president sworn in
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono takes over as Indonesia's President, and is due to announce his cabinet...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
UK faces booze cruise court case
The European Commission takes Britain to court over its treatment of cross-Channel shoppers...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Kidnappers Seize a Relief Official Working in Iraq
Margaret Hassan, the British-Iraqi director of CARE International in Iraq, was kidnapped, the latest in a string of Westerners abducted...
New York Times - October 20, 2004
Brazil Agrees to Inspection of Nuclear Site
The Brazilian government has agreed to grant U.N. inspectors access to a plant Brazil has built to produce nuclear fuel...
New York Times - October 20, 2004
Britain Charges Muslim Cleric Sought by U.S.
Abu Hamza al-Masri was charged by the British police with encouraging followers to murder Jews and other non-Muslims...
New York Times - October 20, 2004
Myanmar Removes Its Liberal-Leaning Premier
The prime minister had publicly been pulling in a more liberal direction than the other generals in Myanmar's ruling clique...
New York Times - October 20, 2004
'Beds freed despite patient need'
In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Gambling law shake-up is unveiled
Plans for a massive overhaul of UK gambling laws are unveiled prompting criticism from opponents...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Internet kidney op gets go-ahead
Doctors have put aside ethical concerns to carry out a kidney transplant between two men who met online...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Indonesian president is sworn in
Indonesia's new president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is sworn into office in the capital Jakarta...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Gay bishop diocese admits regret
New Hampshire clergy acknowledge a split within the Anglican church, but stop short of an apology...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Ecclestone rules out British GP
Formula One's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone says there will be no British Grand Prix in 2005...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Dozens arrested at Belarus rally
At least 30 people are arrested during a second night of protests against the Belarus president...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Aid agencies' warning on climate
Climate change threatens to undo the world's attempts to eradicate poverty, a coalition of aid agencies warn...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
UKIP branches reject Kilroy bid
The leader of UKIP Roger Knapman says branch chairmen have backed him to stay on as head of the party...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Boris sets out on Mersey mission
Tory MP Boris Johnson heads to Liverpool to apologise for an article saying the city is "hooked" on grief...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
Agency halts aid projects in Iraq
Aid agency CARE International stops work in the wake of the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan in Baghdad...
BBC News - October 20, 2004
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