Stansted Airport sold for £1.5bn

Stansted Airport sold for £1.5bn
Build Your Own Inaugural Address
'Two detained' over Kurd deaths
VIDEO: Impact: BBC World behind the scenes
U.S., China in deal on U.N. North Korea rebuke; Russia to back it
Fed 'underestimated 2007 crisis'
Fake TV crew jailed for 30 years
Inauguration Preview: Obama’s 2nd Term
Top U.S. commander denied visa in rights row: Russia
Al Jazeera reporter killed by sniper in Syria
Flu Season ‘Worse Than Average,’ Officials Say
Corruption Charges for Ray Nagin of New Orleans
French police hold two suspects in Kurd killings
After abuse scandal, Pope appoints new head of Irish church
Panetta calls for more agile NATO with wider strategic focus
Bolshoi ballet director in acid attack, eyesight at risk
Former New Orleans mayor indicted
Colombia ELN kidnaps mine workers
Media Decoder: John Geddes, Managing Editor, Is Leaving The New York Times
US to stop using 'naked scanners'

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:56 PM PST

London's Stansted Airport is being sold to the owner of Manchester Airport for £1.5bn, it is announced.

Build Your Own Inaugural Address

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:03 PM PST

Presidents often tackle the same themes in Inaugural Addresses — what would you say?

'Two detained' over Kurd deaths

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:29 PM PST

Two people have been detained in connection with the deaths of three Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris, French media reports say.

VIDEO: Impact: BBC World behind the scenes

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:30 PM PST

Presenter Mishal Husain gives a behind-the-scenes tour of BBC World's Impact programme.

U.S., China in deal on U.N. North Korea rebuke; Russia to back it

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:26 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea for its December rocket launch, U.N. diplomats said on Friday, and Russia predicted it would be approved by the council.

Fed 'underestimated 2007 crisis'

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:02 PM PST

The US Federal Reserve may have underestimated the extent of the looming global financial crisis in 2007, released transcripts from that year show.

Fake TV crew jailed for 30 years

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:17 PM PST

A court in Nicaragua gives maximum jail sentences to 18 people caught crossing the border with $9.2m while posing as journalists from Mexican TV.

Inauguration Preview: Obama’s 2nd Term

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:55 AM PST

David Leonhardt, the Washington bureau chief, hosts a preview of President Obama's second inauguration.

Top U.S. commander denied visa in rights row: Russia

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:27 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia denied entry to a former commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in retaliation against U.S. moves to punish Russian human rights violators, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said on Friday.

Al Jazeera reporter killed by sniper in Syria

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:01 PM PST

Qatar-based media network says freelance journalist Mohammed al-Horani was killed by a sniper in the province of Deraa.

Flu Season ‘Worse Than Average,’ Officials Say

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:28 AM PST

The season has been particularly bad for older people, but appears to have peaked, with reports of new cases declining in most of the nation.

Corruption Charges for Ray Nagin of New Orleans

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST

A former mayor was charged with 21 counts of offenses that included conspiracy, bribery and filing false tax returns. The charges were widely expected.

French police hold two suspects in Kurd killings

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - French police have detained two suspects for questioning over the killing of three Kurdish rebel activists in Paris earlier this month, a police source said on Friday.

After abuse scandal, Pope appoints new head of Irish church

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:24 AM PST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday appointed the new head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to succeed Cardinal Sean Brady, whose tenure has been plagued by scandal over the sexual abuse of children on the predominantly Roman Catholic island.

Panetta calls for more agile NATO with wider strategic focus

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:54 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Friday for NATO to reinvent itself as a more agile alliance with a broader outlook embracing the Asia-Pacific and able to respond to new threats from Islamic militancy.

Bolshoi ballet director in acid attack, eyesight at risk

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:09 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A masked attacker threw acid in the face of the artistic director of Russia's prestigious Bolshoi Ballet, endangering his eyesight, in what colleagues said on Friday was the culmination of a two-week campaign of intimidation.