Iran protesters break into UK embassy in Tehran. 29 November 2011Last updated at 15:56 ET The BBC's James Reynolds says there is a lot of anger among the protesters Protesters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have broken into the UK embassy compound during a demonstration against sanctions imposed by Britain. Militant students are reported to have ransacked offices, burned the British flag and smashed embassy windows. The move comes after Iran resolved to reduce ties following the UK's decision to impose further sanctions on it. Iran expressed "regret" over the attack on the embassy. British Prime Minister David Cameron said: "The attack on the British embassy in Tehran today was outrageous and indefensible.
" Continue reading the main story Background: UK-Iran ties After a series of ups and downs in relations following the 1979 Iranian revolution, London and Tehran restored full diplomatic ties in 1988. Iran broke off relations the following year after Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa on the author Salman Rushdie. Tear gas Nuclear row. Bahrain unrest report expected to criticise government.
23 November 2011Last updated at 14:28 Anger is still widespread within Bahrain's Shia majority over the crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations The Bahraini authorities used "excessive force" during a crackdown on protests earlier this year, an independent commission has said. Presenting a much-awaited report into the events in February and March, the commission said a number of detained protesters had been tortured.
More than 40 people died in the unrest. Responding to the criticism in the report, King Hamad vowed to do everything possible so "those painful events won't be repeated". Bahrain has a majority Shia Muslim population and the violence has fuelled anger against the ruling Sunni royal family and political elite. More than 1,600 people have been arrested during the protests, which have continued sporadically since the peak of the unrest eight months ago. 'No Iran link' Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteBahrain's King Hamad 'New page' Read the terms and conditions. New York arrest for alleged 'al-Qaida sympathiser' linked to bomb plot | World news.
The New York Police Department has arrested an alleged "al-Qaida sympathiser" who had plotted to bomb returning military personnel, police cars and post offices in the city. The alleged terrorist, 27-year-old Jose Pimentel, was acting as a "lone wolf" and was taken into custody Saturday, said New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. A Dominican-born US citizen, Pimentel had spent most of his life in Manhattan, said the mayor, and had been under police surveillance since May 2009. The suspect was arrested while trying to build the pipe bombs using materials he had recently purchased at a Home Depot store in the Bronx and other locations, the mayor said at a press conference on Sunday night. Bloomberg said: "The suspect was a so called lone wolf motivated by his own resentment of the presence of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as inspired by al-Qaida propaganda.
Investigators said Pimentel made incriminating statements to a NYPD informant. المعارضة السورية في تركيا Prince Naif’s War On Saudi Liberals And How Obama Is Abetting The Crackdown. A Utah mother charged with killing 6 of her infant children was described as cold and aloof by a neighbor. Police are still searching for answers in the tragedy. The woman who sits in a suicide suit in a Utah County Jail cell traded one prison for another. Megan Huntsman, charged with murder for the deaths of seven children that she claims to have birthed, then killed, had lived with her secretive deeds beginning in 1996, according to her statements to police. While some neighbors have praised her in the terms many use when confronted with a horrible crime committed by a seemingly gentle person, others thought Huntsman was, quite simply, “cold.” “I tried to be friends with her for a long time,” SanDee Wall told The Daily Beast.
Wall, 70, lives next door to the house in Pleasant Grove, Utah, where the bodies of six infants were discovered Saturday. Another baby, stillborn, Huntsman told police, was also found. Within 15 minutes police arrived. How did no one know? Global Voices · Citizen media stories from around the world. UK school tech show moves to Abu Dhabi. 2 November 2011Last updated at 00:19 By Merlin John Abu Dhabi is hosting an educational technology show, as it modernises its schools It was impossible not to be impressed by the enormous halls, the expansive public access spaces and the air-conditioning that out-did even US convention centres.
The BETT Show, that annual four-day pilgrimage to educational technology in London's Olympia, has exported itself to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to become BETT Middle East. This learning technology trade fair now has a branch in the Gulf, as well as its flagship London event, bringing headline acts such as Microsoft, Hitachi, Epson, Cisco, Panasonic and Hewlett Packard. Abu Dhabi - newly-built and still partly building site - seems to like its unique selling points, whether it's claiming to have the world's fastest rollercoaster or to be the world's first city with a telecoms infrastructure built entirely on fibre optics.
It also has ambitions for education. Building networks. Realnews24.com. India loses stomach for the pot belly. 1 November 2011Last updated at 01:30 By Rajini Vaidyanathan BBC News, Mumbai India has long battled with malnutrition but rising incomes and changing diets have meant obesity and diabetes are growing problems too, challenging the long-held notion that a paunch is an indication of health. In a surgery in South Mumbai (Bombay) a patient is being measured up by a doctor. "I've lost more than 30kg (66lbs), I've had to change my clothes six times," he says, smiling as the tape measure touches his tummy. Balancing on a set of scales isn't the sort of setting you'd expect to see a politician in, but Nitin Raut, a cabinet minister for the Indian state of Maharashtra, isn't ashamed to tell the world he took action to lose weight. "Before, when I was coming before the camera I was looking so bulky.
Now some people barely recognise me. " Mr Raut underwent surgery to lose his bulging belly, having a procedure known as a gastric band, which effectively shrinks the stomach and the appetite. Police paunch.