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| Monday, 03 August, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Barclays set to post £3bn profit The City awaits first-half figures from Barclays, as the UK's major banks prepare to publish a range of results this week. |
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| End MoD payouts appeal, says aide Appeals against compensation payouts for two wounded soldiers are "wrong" and should end, says the defence secretary's aide. | |
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| Ahmadinejad poised for new term Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enters his inaugural week amid allegations that election protesters were tortured. | |
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| Baby P case sees abuse calls rise The NSPCC reports a rise in the number of people calling to report suspected child abuse two years on from the death of Baby Peter. | |
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| Bomb blast hits west Afghan city A bomb attack in the western Afghan city of Herat kills at least 12 people and injures many more, officials say. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Ahmadinejad poised for new term Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enters his inaugural week amid allegations that election protesters were tortured. |
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| Bomb blast hits west Afghan city A bomb attack in the western Afghan city of Herat kills at least 12 people and injures many more, officials say. | |
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| Bolivian Indians in historic step Bolivia becomes the first country in South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria photo shows leader alive The BBC obtains a photo showing that Nigerian Islamic sect leader Yusuf Mohamed was alive when captured by the army. |
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| Ugandan rebels 'launch new raids' Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army makes deadly forays into the CAR and south Sudan, aid agences say. | |
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| Scientists find new strain of HIV Gorillas are identified for the first time as a source of HIV after tests in Paris on an infected woman from Cameroon. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Bolivian Indians in historic step Bolivia becomes the first country in South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves. |
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| German trial for Kohl-era figure Canada allows the extradition to Germany of a businessman who figured in a Kohl-era political fund-raising scandal. | |
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| Remains of Gulf War pilot found The US says it has found the remains of the last serviceman still listed as missing in action from the 1991 Gulf War. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Second plague death in west China A second man dies of pneumonic plague in remote north-western China, where thousands of people are quarantined. |
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| Filipinos pay respects to Aquino Hundreds gather to pay their respects to former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who died on Saturday. | |
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| Nissan rolls out new electric car Carmaker Nissan unveils its first electric car, taking it closer to its aim to become the first car firm to mass produce the vehicles. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | German trial for Kohl-era figure Canada allows the extradition to Germany of a businessman who figured in a Kohl-era political fund-raising scandal. |
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| Fires rage across Canary island A huge forest blaze is still burning on La Palma but Spanish fire crews are aided by a change in wind direction. | |
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| Catholic bank owned pill shares A Catholic bank in Germany apologises after admitting it had stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control firms. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Ahmadinejad poised for new term Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enters his inaugural week amid allegations that election protesters were tortured. |
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| Israel condemned over evictions The US leads international condemnation of Israel after it evicts nine Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem. | |
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| Gay Israelis rally after shooting Hundreds of people join a rally organised by Israel's gay community after a fatal shooting at a gay support centre. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Bomb blast hits west Afghan city A bomb attack in the western Afghan city of Herat kills at least 12 people and injures many more, officials say. |
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| Swat deal broker cleric 'charged' Terror and conspiracy charges are made against pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a failed peace deal in Pakistan's Swat valley. | |
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| India reject drug-testing rules India are set for a clash with the World Anti-Doping Agency after rejecting a clause in the new global anti-doping rules. | |
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| UK | |
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 | End MoD payouts appeal, says aide Appeals against compensation payouts for two wounded soldiers are "wrong" and should end, says the defence secretary's aide. |
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| Barclays set to post £3bn profit The City awaits first-half figures from Barclays, as the UK's major banks prepare to publish a range of results this week. | |
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| Baby P case sees abuse calls rise The NSPCC reports a rise in the number of people calling to report suspected child abuse two years on from the death of Baby Peter. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Baby P case sees abuse calls rise The NSPCC reports a rise in the number of people calling to report suspected child abuse two years on from the death of Baby Peter. |
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| Rio arrest pair 'to avoid jail' A lawyer for two women charged with attempted insurance fraud in Brazil says he believes they will not have to return to prison. | |
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| Missing girl found safe on beach A 14-year-old girl from Lincolnshire who went missing with her boyfriend is found safe and well in Norfolk, police say. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Bat attackers cowards says mother A woman whose nine-year-old son was struck with a baseball bat in their Newtownabbey home says they will leave the area. |
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| Man hurt in forest park stabbing A man and woman are arrested after a man was stabbed in Tollymore Forest Park, near Newcastle, County Down. | |
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| Man on GBH charge after attack A 30-year-old man is taken to hospital after being assaulted by a man armed with a hammer at a fast food outlet in Bangor. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Major planning changes in force The most significant changes to Scottish planning law in decades come into force, as part of a drive to speed up the system. |
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| Royal guards hurt in road crash Land Rovers providing royal guard duties at Balmoral crash on an Aberdeenshire road, but no Royal Family members are involved. | |
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| Tutti Frutti on DVD at long last Cult TV series Tutti Frutti is being released on DVD, for the first time since it was made in 1987. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Spectator dies after rally crash A man who suffered serious head injuries after a collision with a rally car has died, police confirm. |
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| Man bitten by adder three times A 31-year-old man has been bitten by Britain's only poisonous snake - an adder - three times while on a beach. | |
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| Heart surgery girl raises funds The family of a 16-year-old girl who received groundbreaking heart surgery as a baby repays a hospital by raising money for it. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| End MoD payouts appeal, says aide Appeals against compensation payouts for two wounded soldiers are "wrong" and should end, says the defence secretary's aide. |
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| 'Tough' citizenship test outlined Migrants hoping to gain a British passport would face tougher citizenship tests under new plans from the home secretary. | |
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| Call to simplify benefits claims The benefits and tax credits system is too complex and needs radical reform, says the Centre for Policy Studies. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Barclays set to post £3bn profit The City awaits first-half figures from Barclays, as the UK's major banks prepare to publish a range of results this week. |
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| House prices 'to recover slowly' House prices in England will fall this year and next before recovering, the National Housing Federation forecasts. | |
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| Call to simplify benefits claims The benefits and tax credits system is too complex and needs radical reform, says the Centre for Policy Studies. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Canada festival stage collapses A stage collapses at a major country music festival in Canada, killing one person and injuring many others. |
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| Black Eyed Peas top singles chart US hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas climb to the top of the UK singles chart with their latest track I Gotta Feeling. | |
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| Actor Wahlberg 'weds girlfriend' Actor Mark Wahlberg marries his long-term girlfriend Rhea Durham at a church in Los Angeles, according to reports. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Experts puzzled by spot on Venus Astronomers have been puzzled by a strange bright spot which has appeared in the clouds of Venus. |
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| Space shuttle touches down safely US space shuttle Endeavour successfully lands at Florida's Kennedy Space Center at the end of a 16-day mission. | |
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| Images reveal 'lost' Roman city Aerial photographs reveal a lost Roman city called Altinum - which some scholars regard as a forerunner of Venice. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | US file-sharer gets $700,000 fine A US student is told to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to record labels for breaking copyright laws after sharing music online. |
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| Apple fix to iPhone security flaw Apple releases a software patch to address a recently exposed security flaw in the iPhone. | |
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| Firefox passes billion milestone The open-source web browser Firefox has been downloaded more than a billion times in its five-year history. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Protein 'key to premature births' Premature labour may be prevented in mothers-to-be by blocking a protein which seems to cause it, a study suggests. |
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| Flawed gene link to ovary cancer Scientists have identified a genetic flaw which appears to increase the risk of ovarian cancer by 40%. | |
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| Daily alcohol limit 'unhelpful' Daily limits on alcohol consumption devised by the government are unhelpful and potentially harmful, warn experts. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Universities 'fail on standards' Universities in England are failing to safeguard degree standards, while the system for ensuring quality is out of date, MPs say. |
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| Graduates to get gap-year money The government is to pay for hundreds of graduates struggling to find a job to go on expeditions abroad. | |
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| Bad teens 'not fault of parents' Parents are spending more time with their children - and researchers find no evidence of a decline in parenting. | |
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| 2001: Car bomb in west London injures seven A bomb explodes in a busy west London street, injuring seven people. | |||
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| 2003: Anglican church approves gay bishop The Anglican Church in America votes to approve the appointment of an openly gay bishop, angering religious leaders around the world. | |||
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| 1990: UK temperatures reach record high A weather station in Leicestershire records the highest temperature ever known in Britain. | |||
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