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| Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | PM 'to send 500 more to Helmand' Gordon Brown is expected to announce that Britain is to send an extra 500 military personnel to Afghanistan. |
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| More top MPs to pay back expenses Fourteen senior Conservatives are asked to repay some of their parliamentary expenses, as retrospective limits are imposed. | |
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| Senate panel passes health bill A US Senate committee approves a healthcare reform bill, a move described as a "critical milestone" by President Obama. | |
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| Tesco boss raps school standards Standards in many state schools are "woefully low", leaving employers to "pick up the pieces", the boss of Tesco says. | |
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| Trial by web for family doctors Patients are encouraged to rate their local GP surgery on a new NHS website designed to improve standards. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Senate panel passes health bill A US Senate committee approves a healthcare reform bill, a move described as a "critical milestone" by President Obama. |
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| Tsunami drill across Indian Ocean Eighteen countries around the Indian Ocean hold an exercise to evaluate the region's tsunami early warning systems. | |
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| New flying reptile fossils found Fossils of a new type of flying reptile which lived 160 million years ago are found in China, bridging an evolutionary gap. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Guinea and China 'agree big deal' Guinea says it has sealed a massive mining deal with a Chinese firm, as protests against the ruling junta continue. |
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| UN criticised on Congo offensive UN peacekeepers are criticised for supporting a government military offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | |
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| Spain charges Somalia 'pirates' A Spanish judge charges two Somali men with piracy-related offences after a Spanish fishing vessel is seized off the coast. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Senate panel passes health bill A US Senate committee approves a healthcare reform bill, a move described as a "critical milestone" by President Obama. |
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| Mexico drug yacht crew burn boat Mexican authorities seize a boat smuggling cocaine towards the US, as the crew sets both the boat and its cargo alight. | |
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| US judge cuts Cuban spy sentence A US judge cuts the sentence of one of the men known as the "Cuban Five", jailed for spying in the US, from life to 22 years. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Tsunami drill across Indian Ocean Eighteen countries around the Indian Ocean are taking part in an exercise to evaluate the region's tsunami early warning systems. |
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| Fall in China trade figures eases China's exports and imports fall in September but at a slower pace than in previous months, official figures reveal. | |
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| New flying reptile fossils found Fossils of a new type of flying reptile which lived 160 million years ago are found in China, bridging an evolutionary gap. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Karadzic immunity appeal rejected Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic loses his appeal that war crimes charges against him be dropped. |
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| Don't pressure Iran, says Russia Threatening Iran with sanctions will not help progress on the nuclear issue, Russia's top diplomat tells Hillary Clinton. | |
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| Russian court rejects Stalin case A Moscow court rejects a lawsuit filed by the grandson of dictator Joseph Stalin claiming a Russian newspaper defamed him. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Israel warns of Hezbollah threat Israel's president says Hezbollah has turned Lebanon into a "powder keg", after an explosion at a house near Tyre. |
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| Don't pressure Iran, says Russia Threatening Iran with sanctions will not help progress on the nuclear issue, Russia's top diplomat tells Hillary Clinton. | |
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| Al-Qaeda suspects die in shootout Two suspected al-Qaeda members and a police officer have been killed in a shoot-out in Saudi Arabia, officials say. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | 'No change' to Pakistan aid bill A top US senator behind a major aid package to Pakistan says its conditions do not "impinge" on Pakistan's sovereignty. |
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| Karzai questions vote fraud panel President Hamid Karzai says he has "serious doubts" about the UN-backed body investigating election fraud in Afghanistan. | |
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| China ire over India border visit China strongly criticises a visit by the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to the disputed north-east Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. | |
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| UK | |
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| PM 'to send 500 more to Helmand' Gordon Brown is expected to announce that Britain is to send an extra 500 military personnel to Afghanistan. |
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| Tesco boss raps school standards Standards in many state schools are "woefully low", leaving employers to "pick up the pieces", the boss of Tesco says. | |
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| More top MPs to pay back expenses Fourteen senior Conservatives are asked to repay some of their parliamentary expenses, as retrospective limits are imposed. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Banker guilty of strangling wife A City banker is found guilty of killing his unfaithful wife at their north London home. |
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| Rhys killer's mother loses home A judge rules that a housing association can take possession of the home of the mother of Rhys Jones' killer. | |
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| Plinth art project draws to close Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth art project in London's Trafalgar Square is coming to an end after 100 days. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | DUP MPs to repay £14k in expenses The DUP's nine MPs have been asked to pay back a total of more than £14,000 in expenses under a new set of rules drawn up by Sir Thomas Legg. |
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| Deal details may be made public The First and Deputy First Minister hold another meeting with the Prime Minister at Downing Street on Wednesday. | |
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| Paisley told of dissident threat DUP assembly member Ian Paisley Jnr says police have told him that dissident republicans were planning to murder him. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Man admits eight-hour sex attack A man admits dragging a woman into a makeshift den and subjecting her to an eight-hour rape ordeal. |
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| Family wait for DNA bone results The family of Samantha Wright wait to hear if human remains discovered in Edinburgh belong to the missing woman. | |
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| Princess to lay battleship wreath The Princess Royal is to lay a wreath on the water at the scene of one of the darkest days in the history of British warfare. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | At-risk baby died in mother's bed A baby on the child protection register died after her mother took her into bed with her, an inquest hears. |
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| Nurse force fed medicine to OAPs A nurse accused of force-feeding medicine to two elderly hospital patients is found guilty of ill treatment and neglect. | |
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| Assembly overseas work criticised A row over staff expenses is followed by heavy criticism of the Welsh Assembly Government's overseas business promotion arm. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| PM 'to send 500 more to Helmand' Gordon Brown is expected to announce that Britain is to send an extra 500 military personnel to Afghanistan. |
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| More top MPs to pay back expenses Fourteen senior Conservatives are asked to repay some of their parliamentary expenses, as retrospective limits are imposed. | |
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| Tories' university places attack The Conservatives are set to criticise the shortage of university places this summer, claiming 141,000 missed out. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Postal strike expected next week The union representing Royal Mail workers says postal strikes across the UK could begin from Thursday 22 October. |
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| Tesco boss raps school standards Standards in many state schools are "woefully low", leaving employers to "pick up the pieces", the boss of Tesco says. | |
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| RBS seeks to attract small firms RBS appeals to small business customers of all UK banks as it tries to hit lending targets set out by the Treasury. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Gately 'died of natural causes' The Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died of natural causes, a post mortem examination in Spain establishes. |
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| Plinth art project draws to close Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth art project in London's Trafalgar Square is coming to an end after 100 days. | |
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| Corrie star's condition improves Coronation Street star Maggie Jones, best known for playing Blanche Hunt, is written out for a while as she recovers from an operation. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | New flying reptile fossils found Fossils of a new type of flying reptile which lived 160 million years ago are found in China, bridging an evolutionary gap. |
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| European commands space station Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne talks of his pride at taking command of the International Space Station. | |
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| Lizards filmed 'walking on water' Remarkable slow-motion film is taken of two lizards that seem to do the impossible - walk on water. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Data losses in Snow Leopard bug Users are reporting a bug in the Mac's latest operating system that deletes their entire accounts when they log in as a guest. |
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| Phone sales hit by Sidekick loss The data loss resulting from a technical glitch affecting Sidekick mobile phones hurts the future of cloud computing, say analysts. | |
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| Youth 'cannot live' without web 75% of 16 to 24 year olds say they cannot live without access to the internet, according to a new survey. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Parents 'doubt cot death risks' Half of cot deaths are linked to bed-sharing, yet many parents remain sceptical about the risk, a poll reveals. |
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| Trial by web for family doctors Patients are encouraged to rate their local GP surgery on a new NHS website designed to improve standards. | |
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| Physical problems 'often mental' The toll of mental ill health is unrecognised since problems like cancer and obesity are often caused in the mind, say experts. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Tesco boss raps school standards Standards in many state schools are "woefully low", leaving employers to "pick up the pieces", the boss of Tesco says. |
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| Madrasas 'should face regulation' Islamic supplementary schools known as madrasas should face stricter regulations, an MP demands. | |
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| Tories' university places attack The Conservatives are set to criticise the shortage of university places this summer, claiming 141,000 missed out. | |
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| 1994: Israelis and Arafat share peace prize Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and two Israelis - the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres - are the winners of this year's Nobel peace prize. | |||
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| 1983: Parkinson quits over lovechild scandal The Trade and Industry Secretary resigns after fresh details about his affair with a former secretary are revealed. | |||
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| 1973: Thai army shoots protesters Dozens of people are killed in the Thai capital of Bangkok in street battles between government troops and demonstrators. | |||
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