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BBC Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said the protocol "does not represent a way forward for Canada" and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets. The move, which...

BBC Jailed Afghan rape victim freed with no pre-conditions An Afghan rape victim who was jailed for adultery does not have to marry her attacker to be freed, her lawyer has told the BBC. Lawyer Kimberly Motley says this was clarified personally to her by President Hamid Karzai's...

Oooh touched a nerve did we :rolleyes: BBC Pakistani cable television operators have begun blocking the BBC's international news TV channel, BBC World News. The operators say that the move is in response to a documentary broadcast by the channel, entitled Secret Pakistan. Other...

BBC Amnesty International has called for the US to stop sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole. More than 2,500 adults are in US jails for crimes committed as a child - under current rules they will never be freed. In its new report, Amnesty says the practice is...

BBC Global food giant Nestle says it has taken a major step to end child labour on cocoa farms supplying its factories. The firm, one of the world's largest chocolate producers, says it is going to work with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) on tackling the problem. The FLA is set to...

BBC Australia has agreed to host a full US Marine task force in the coming years, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced at a news conference with US President Barack Obama in Canberra. She said about 250 US Marines would arrive next year, eventually being built up to 2,500 personnel...

BBC Mississippi residents have rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to define a fertilized human egg as a person. The measure would have conferred rights on an embryo from the moment of conception, effectively outlawing abortion, even in rape or incest cases. More than 55%...

BBC Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran 'a mistake' Military action against Iran would be a "very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences", Russia's foreign minister has warned. Sergei Lavrov said diplomacy, not missile strikes, was the only way to solve the...

Absurd, bizarre, irresponsible decision IMO, and granted legal aid too :mad: BBC Court awards £17,000 to detained illegal immigrant An illegal immigrant has been awarded £17,360 at the High Court for being wrongly imprisoned. Joseph Mjemer, who arrived in the UK as a...

BBC Four elderly men from the US state of Georgia have appeared in court charged with plotting to murder officials using explosives and the lethal toxin ricin. Court documents say the group scoped out federal buildings and asked a contact to produce ricin. The FBI used a confidential...

Warning - very distressing PCRM | Dalmatian Named Queenie Dies in Unlawful Experiments at Wayne State Queenie and many other dogs have endured traumatic heart-failure experiments at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. These experiments violate the Animal Welfare Act, argues a...

BBC The governor of California, Jerry Brown, has signed into law legislation allowing illegal immigrants to receive state aid to attend college. Supporters of the California Dream Act, as it is called, say it will benefit the state economically. However, critics argue that it condones...

BBC Mark Mardell North American Editor You might think President Obama has enough on his plate without worrying about the European crisis. But you'd be wrong. The White House may not really care too much about the fate of the euro itself, but it does care about European banks and the...

BBC By Jane O'Brien BBC News, Washington Tucked away in the western corner of Massachusetts, the rolling hills of Berkshire County seem an unlikely front line in the battle against globalisation. But that was before the financial collapse of 2008, the current European debt crisis and...

BBC As many as 750,000 people could die as Somalia's drought worsens in the coming months, the UN has warned, declaring a famine in a new area. The UN says tens of thousands of people have died after what is said to be East Africa's worst drought for 60 years. Bay becomes the sixth area...

BBC A few reports today on BBC on cloning .... Endangered species set for stem cell rescue BBC News - Endangered species set for stem cell rescue Dolly scientist working on cloning Scottish wildcats BBC News - Dolly scientist working on cloning Scottish wildcats And this report...

BBC Wikileaks' media partners have strongly criticised the whistleblower group's decision to release its entire archive of US cables uncensored. Wikileaks says all 251,287 of the leaked diplomatic cables are now online in a searchable format. It comes amid a row between Wikileaks and...

BBC A federal judge in Texas has ruled key parts of a new state law which requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram are unconstitutional. Judge Sam Sparks upheld the requirement of the law, due to take effect on Thursday, that sonograms be performed. But he struck down...

BBC The acting director of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the US attorney in Arizona are resigning over a botched operation to track the flow of guns to Mexico. The ATF's Kenneth Melson had recently faced pressure by Congress to resign. Operation Fast and...

BBC The US government has wasted $30bn (£18bn) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission. The commission on wartime contracting blamed an over-reliance on contractors, poor planning and fraud for the waste. It had evidence...