BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Pooh celebrates his 80th birthday
Last Updated: Saturday, 24 December 2005, 00:46 GMT Winnie the Pooh, one of the world's best loved characters, is celebrating his 80th birthday. Pooh - based on the bedtime stories by Alan Alexander (AA) Milne - first appeared in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve 1925 in a story called The Wrong Sort of Bees. The honey-loving bear's many adventures - along with his friends Tigger, Piglet an
BBC NEWS | UK | Lawrence's Mid-East map on show
Last Updated: Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 23:54 GMT 00:54 UK A map showing Lawrence of Arabia's proposals for the reconstruction of the Middle East following World War I is set to be displayed for the first time. The newly-found map shows TE Lawrence opposed the allied agreement which eventually determined the borders of Iraq as it is now. He said separate governments should operate in the predomina
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Kashmir 'woman suicide attacker'
Last Updated: Thursday, 13 October 2005, 09:43 GMT 10:43 UK For the first time a woman has carried out a suicide attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, the police there say. Police said the bomb exploded before she reached the national highway, thought to be her target. A caller claiming to be a spokesman for the militant group, Jaish-e Mohammad, told the BBC that the woman was a member of their g
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese activist attacked by mob
Last Updated: Monday, 10 October 2005, 05:59 GMT 06:59 UK A Chinese political activist is missing after he was severely beaten as he tried to enter a village at the centre of a corruption dispute. Lu Banglie was dragged from a car by a crowd of several dozen men, according to a reporter for the UK newspaper The Guardian, who witnessed the incident. Mr Lu was repeatedly beaten and kicked even after
BBC NEWS | Health | 1918 killer flu 'came from birds'
The Spanish flu virus that killed up to 50 million people in 1918-19 was probably a strain that originated in birds, research has shown. US scientists have found the 1918 virus shares genetic mutations with the bird flu virus now circulating in Asia. Writing in Nature, they say their work underlines the threat the current strain poses to humans worldwide. A second paper in Science reveals another
BBC NEWS | Health | Nobel for stomach ulcer discovery
Two Australian scientists have been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery that stomach ulcers can be caused by a bacterial infection. Robin Warren and Barry Marshall showed the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a key role in the development of both stomach and intestinal ulcers. Thanks to their work these ulcers are often no longer a long-term, frequently disabling problem. Th
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New frog centre for London Zoo
The Zoological Society of London is to build a new centre for the conservation of frogs, toad and other amphibians. The £2.2m (US$4m) project will include a public exhibit at London Zoo, laboratories for disease research, and captive breeding facilities. Scientists involved say it will be the first integrated amphibian conservation centre in the world. Amphibians are possibly the most threatened a
BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan militia raids Chad villages
A group of Sudanese militia has crossed into Chad, attacking villages in the east of the country and killing 36 people, says the government in Chad. The government says the men, who were in uniform and on horseback, were trying to steal cattle. The Chadian army is reported to have killed seven of the attackers. The attack is reported to have taken place on Monday close to the Sudanese border and f
BBC NEWS | UK | UK warning on G8 debt relief plan
The G8's plan to help 18 of the poorest nations may not go ahead if non-G8 countries are not included, says the UK International Development Secretary. The G8 - the UK, Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia and the US - agreed the deal at Gleneagles in July. They aim to axe $40bn (£22bn) debt owed to international lenders by a group of impoverished nations, mostly in Africa. But Hilary Ben
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