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From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 3:20 AM

The auction house Sotheby’s is selling the only major remaining Jane Austen manuscript. It is thought she wrote the manuscript in 1804.The manuscript entitled, The Watsons, is expected to sell for around £200,000 at a New York auction. Sotheby's specialist Gabriel Heaton explains why the wo...

From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 3:20 AM

The auction house Sotheby’s is selling the only major remaining Jane Austen manuscript. It is thought she wrote the manuscript in 1804.The manuscript entitled, The Watsons, is expected to sell for around £200,000 at a New York auction. Sotheby's specialist Gabriel Heaton explains why the wo...

From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 2:15 AM

More US politicians are calling for an inquiry into claims that journalists employed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation allegedly tried to access phone records of victims of the September 11th attacks.Meanwhile, in the UK, the House of Commons Culture and Media Select committee will decide whe...

From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 2:07 AM

Indian officials say that terrorists were behind the explosions but no specific group has been apportioned blame.

From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 2:07 AM

Five men have been killed and a sixth has been seriously injured in an explosion at an industrial estate in Lincolnshire.

From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 2:07 AM

Parents of year four children at a Leicester primary school are given a unique opportunity to see how their children really behave in the classroom.

From: BBC News on Thu, Jul 14 2011 12:00 AM

Protesters have demanded action against any police involved in the killing of hundreds of people during the uprising against former President Mubarak.

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 7:59 PM

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to member states to dig deep in order to prevent "catastrophe" in the Horn of Africa.Severe drought has led to widespread crop failures in the region, leaving millions at risk of starvation.UN agencies have asked for $1.6 bn to fund aid activities bu...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:57 PM

Georgian journalists have staged a series of protests over the arrest of four photographers accused of spying for Russian intelligence.The court sent Irakli Kurtsikidze, Giorgi Abdaladze, and Irakli Gedenidze, a personal photographer of President Mikheil Saakashvilii, to pretrial detention.Mr. G...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:57 PM

A report has criticised a Catholic diocese in County Cork, Ireland for a failure to report all complaints of abuse to police.The Commission of Investigation into the Diocese of Cloyne investigated how allegations against 19 priests were dealt with between 1996 and 2009.The report found Bishop Jo...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:57 PM

A cheetah has attacked two members of staff at a Kent wild animal park.The big cat scratched and bit the two keepers when they went into the enclosure to film it at Eagle Heights in Eynsford on Sunday.They managed to escape after spraying one-year-old Zena in the face with a fire extinguisher.Ala...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:57 PM

Extended drought has been causing a severe food crisis in the Horn of Africa. Some 10 million people are said to be suffering from it.Somalia, wracked by 20 years of conflict, is the country worst hit and some 3,000 people flee each day for neighbouring countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya which...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:57 PM

Angry scenes were seen at Orly airport in Paris. A strike by cabin crew from Air Algerie means scores of flights have been cancelled.The French transport minister says thousands have been stranded across the country.Air Algerie’s cabin crew are demanding a 106% increase in their salaryGhada Nasse...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:47 PM

Today’s announcement from News Corporation that it is withdrawing its bid to take full control of BSkyB came after MPs in the House of Commons lined up in a remarkable cross party effort against the takeover.

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:47 PM

Rebels in western Libya have been thrown into confusion after Colonel Gaddafi’s forces staged a day of counter attacks against their lines in the Nafusa mountains.

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:47 PM

Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding and landslides in Yajiang province in southwest China.

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:46 PM

Russian consumer protection officials have clashed with representatives from the country’s post office following a spate of well-publicised thefts from the mail.

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 2:56 PM

Defence Secretary Liam Fox has apologised to the families of two RAF pilots who were wrongly blamed for the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash.Two RAF air marshals had accused Flt Lts Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook of gross negligence over the crash on Mull of Kintyre in which 29 people died.But a f...

From: BBC News on Wed, Jul 13 2011 2:56 PM

Dozens of people have been injured in three explosions in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai.Officials say at least eight people have been killed in what the interior minister said were suspected terrorist attacks.One explosion was reported in the busy Zaveri Bazaar, another near the Opera Hou...