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Ms Kim says the crane has become a sauna in the summer A South Korean woman is spending her 200th day living at the top of a crane in protest against lay-offs at a major shipping company. Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction announced last year it was cutting 400 jobs from its shipyard in the southern city of Busan. This prompted local trade union member Kim Jin-suk to begin her protest. Sh..
Dominique Strauss-Kahn (left) and Nicolas Sarkozy are seen as likely rivals in the next race The two rounds of the 2012 French presidential election will be held on 22 April and 5 May, the government has announced in Paris. A two-round parliamentary election will follow on 10 and 17 June, said government spokesman Francois Baroin. Opinion polls suggest sitting President Nicolas Sarkozy would st..
Dana Pasca-Hossu 'A rustic pinhole photo of a basket of apples' Dana Pasca-Hossu: "Safety-pin holes lined up to give a twist on the pinhole theme." Every week we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week the theme was pinhole and we start with a photograph taken by Jagna Garbacz. It is of model Agnieszka Stenka standing in an abandoned industrial building in Radom, Poland..
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Barbara Windsor MBE meet local residents of Fieldway community centre as they prepare for their Big Lunch, an idea which aims to get neighbours in communities across the country together for a few hours on 5 June for fun and friendship.
일본 가고시마와 미야자키 현 경계선에 있는 기리시마의 신모에다케에서는 오늘 오전 10시 47분에 화산성 지진을 동반한 폭발적인 분화가 있었습니다. 폭발적 분화는 지난 달 26일 이후 7번 째입니다. 가고시마 지방기상대에 따르면 화산 연기는 화구로부터 500미터 상공에서 구름 속으로 들어갔으며 분..
Residents of Beijing make preparations for the Lunar New Year, including the traditional dumplings, ahead of the start of celebrations on Wednesday.
The controversial whistle-blowing site Wikileaks has released a cache of 250,000 secret messages sent by US diplomatic staff. So far, Wikileaks has published on its site 278 of 251,287 of what it describes as US "cables"; it has given the files in full to five media groups, including the New York Times and Guardian newspapers. Below are some of the key issues the documents reveal. Iran attack S..
Fireworks over the main Mosque in Grozny, Chechnya
Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich waves to the media after voting during the presidential election at a polling station in Kiev February 7, 2010 Exit polls from Ukraine indicate that the pro-Moscow opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has narrowly won the country's presidential election. They say Mr Yanukovych has a lead of several percentage points over opponent Yulia Tymoshenk..
Mr Yanukovych finished ahead of Mrs Tymoshenko in the first round of voting Ukrainians are voting in a presidential election run-off, after a bruising campaign and warnings of mass street protests and demonstrations. PM Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych are competing for the top job after President Viktor Yushchenko lost out in the first round. Both camps have accused eac..
Singer-Song Writer Ellie Goulding has come out on top of the BBC sound of 2010 list, which aims to highlight the most exciting emerging artists for the coming 12 months
GORKI, MOSCOW REGION. United States President Barack Obama, Michele Obama, Svetlana Medvedeva in out-of-Moscow residence of President of Russia US President Barack Obama has urged Russia to turn from the past, emphasising the common goals the US shares with its former Cold War rival. He told young graduates in Moscow they were the "last generation" to be born in a "divided world". Mr Obama soug..
Hur Kwan ear France might be just across the English Channel from Britain, but Emma Jane Kirby says both nations are still prone to the pitfalls of linguistic misunderstandings. The 65th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings took place in France Last weekend, standing on Pegasus bridge in Normandy for the D-Day celebrations, I was touched to see two classes of French primary school chi..
Ex-S Korea leader 'kills himself' Mr Roh served as South Korea's president from 2003 to 2008 The former president of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, who had been under investigation for alleged corruption, has apparently committed suicide. A spokesman said Mr Roh, 62, appeared to have jumped into a ravine while mountain climbing near his home and had left a brief suicide note. Last month, Mr Roh apo..
South Korean special forces break roof tiles during a military show to celebrate Children's Day in the country http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8033922.stm
Poland reflects on Communism's fall By Oana Lungescu BBC News, Gdansk The Gdansk shipyard was the birthplace of Solidarity in 1980 Twenty years ago, Poland's communist government did something without precedent - it sat down with the banned Solidarity trade union to try to defuse growing social unrest. What became known as the Round Table Talks led to the first multi-party elections in the Sovi..
in Russian democracy Soviet leaders line up at an early meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of the former Soviet Union. Artyom Krechetnikov of the BBC's Russian Service looks back at 26 March 1989, when millions of Soviet citizens had the chance to vote for a new parliamentary body that included non-Communist Par..
Two US journalists were detained by the North Koreans on Tuesday while reporting from the China-North Korea border. The BBC's Michael Bristow was also on the border on Tuesday. Here he reports on what he found. There are few signs of motorised transport along the river The border between China and North Korea, which stretches for nearly 1,500km (900 miles), is heavily guarded by soldiers from b..
Presidents Obama and Lee met on the sidelines of the G20 in London US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart have agreed a "stern, united response" must follow any rocket launch by North Korea. Mr Obama and President Lee Myung-bak discussed the issue on the sidelines of the G20 summit in London. North Korea says the rocket will launch a satellite between 4-8 April, but critics ..
South Korean football fans arrive at a stadium in Seoul ahead of the World Cup Asian qualifier between South and North Korea.
Impoverished North Korea maintains an international football team The national football teams of North and South Korea are to meet in a World Cup qualifier match in Seoul, amid increasing political tensions. North Korea is planning to launch a rocket shortly in what it says is an attempt to put a communications satellite into orbit. But the South, and its US and Japanese allies, suggest it will..
Mohammed ElBaradei will leave his post in November The board of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has failed to elect a successor to director Mohammed ElBaradei. After three rounds of inconclusive voting in Vienna on the two candidates vying to succeed him, the 35-member board decided to begin again on Friday. Japan's Yukiya Amano led South Africa's Abdul S..
Tourists and workers had become used to a more open border The journey from Seoul to Kaesong is just a short drive between two cities on the same peninsula. But the special tourist buses, which began running 12 months ago, are laden as much with symbolism as they are with passengers. For thousands of South Koreans the chance to visit a real North Korean city, and to glimpse the reality of daily..
US President Barack Obama has offered "a new beginning" of engagement with Tehran in an unprecedented direct video message to the Iranian people. "My administration is now committed to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues before us," Mr Obama said. An advisor to Iran's president welcomed Mr Obama's message but said Washington had to fundamentally change policy. Relations between Ir..
It is Premier Kim Yong-il's first visit to China since taking office in 2007 China says it is concerned by growing tensions on the Korean peninsula over North Korea's planned rocket launch. North Korea's premier is in Beijing for talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao - with the test-fire expected to top the agenda. South Korea and the US say Pyongyang may be preparing to..
There are only 100 copies of the first edition of Superman left A rare copy of the first Superman comic, dating from 1938, has sold at auction for $317,200 (£227,000). The online auction started two weeks ago and attracted 89 bidders. Neither the buyer nor the seller were named. The copy was described as unrestored. The cover shows the cape-wearing action hero from the planet Krypton lifting ..
An atmosphere of suspicion has reasserted itself on both sides of the borderAs North Korea threatens to back out of all its agreements with the South, the BBC's Korea correspondent, John Sudworth, looks at the likely outcome for the divided peninsula. Little more than a year ago an extraordinary journey was beamed live to television sets around the world. The then South Korean president, Roh Mo..
The Iranian revolution put an end to the rule of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who had alienated powerful religious and political forces with a programme of modernisation and Westernisation. January 1979 saw the US-supported Shah forced to leave the country after widespread demonstrations and strikes. On 1 February, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran following 14 years of exile in I..