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| Tuesday, 10 February, 2009, 0:00 GMT 05:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Australia resumes bushfire search Rescue teams are resuming the grim search for victims of Australia's bushfires amid fears the death toll will continue to rise. |
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| Paris airports close for storms Paris airports shut overnight following a storm alert and warnings of winds of up to 100km/h (62mph). | |
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| Italian coma battle woman dies Eluana Englaro, the Italian woman at the centre of a right-to-die debate, has died, the health minister says. | |
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| Scolari sacked as Chelsea manager Chelsea announce the shock dismissal of manager Luiz Felipe Scolari with immediate effect, after just seven months in charge. | |
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| Obama warning on stimulus delay Barack Obama makes a public pitch for his stimulus plan, warning further delays will lead to "deepening disaster". | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Court backs S Africa exile vote South Africans abroad should be allowed to vote, according to a legal ruling which could lead to a delay in forthcoming elections. |
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| Somali president makes peace plea Somalia's new President, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, offers an olive branch to Islamist hardliners during a tour of the capital, Mogadishu. | |
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| Memorial for abolitionist Equiano Former slave Olaudah Equiano is being honoured with a memorial at Westminster Abbey. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Obama warning on stimulus delay Barack Obama makes a public pitch for his stimulus plan, warning further delays will lead to "deepening disaster". |
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| New York honours river crash crew The pilot and crew who landed a plane in the Hudson River saving everyone on board are honoured with the keys to New York City. | |
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| Baseball star admits steroid use American baseball is thrown into disarray after its highest-paid player Alex Rodriguez admits using performance-enhancing drugs. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| Australia resumes bushfire search Rescue teams are resuming the grim search for victims of Australia's bushfires amid fears the death toll will continue to rise. |
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| China submits rights record to UN China presents an eagerly-awaited report on its rights record to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. | |
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| US warns North Korea over missile The head of US forces in South Korea says he has not ruled out a military response if the North test-fires a missile. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Italian coma battle woman dies Eluana Englaro, the Italian woman at the centre of a right-to-die debate, has died, the health minister says. |
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| Paris airports close for storms Paris airports shut overnight following a storm alert and warnings of winds of up to 100km/h (62mph). | |
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| Hadron Collider relaunch delayed The Hadron Collider could be switched back on in September - a year after it shut down and months later than expected. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Final day of Israeli campaigning Politicians in Israel are making their final campaign appeals to voters a day before the general election on Tuesday. |
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| Four US soldiers killed in Iraq A suicide car bomb kills four American soldiers and an interpreter in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the US military says. | |
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| Chamber of mummies found in Egypt Egyptian archaeologists unearth more than 20 mummies at a tomb at the Saqqara necropolis dating back at least 2,600 years. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Sri Lanka bomber 'kills dozens' A female Tamil Tiger rebel blows herself up in north-east Sri Lanka, killing 28 people and injuring dozens, the military says. |
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| Afghan people 'losing confidence' Afghans are increasingly pessimistic about the future with support for the government and Nato falling, a BBC/ABC poll finds. | |
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| BBC suspends Sri Lanka FM reports The BBC World Service is to stop providing radio news to Sri Lanka's state broadcaster due to "deliberate interference". | |
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| UK NEWS | |
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 | Crisis 'more serious than 1930s' Cabinet minister Ed Balls predicts the financial crisis will be "more extreme and more serious than that of the 1930s". |
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| Rain and snow spark flood alerts Heavy rain leads to flood warnings in many parts of southern England, while more snow falls in other UK areas. | |
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| Fatal crash driver 'used laptop' A family of six were killed by a lorry driver who may have been using a laptop while driving on the M6, a court hears. | |
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| UK EDUCATION | |
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 | 'Credit crunch' aid for graduates Graduates from Durham University are being offered £2,000 to stay on to study rather than look for a job during the recession. |
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| Clegg unveils spending priorities The Lib Dems outline plans to spend billions more on childcare and schools by scrapping tax credits for better-off families. | |
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| £250m expansion plan for Magee The University of Ulster announces plans for 2,000 extra students as part of a £250m expansion at its Magee campus. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Girl starved to death after op An eight-year-old girl frightened of dentists starved to death at home after an operation on her teeth, an inquest hears. |
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| Fatal crash driver 'used laptop' A family of six were killed by a lorry driver who may have been using a laptop while driving on the M6, a court hears. | |
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| Rain and snow spark flood alerts Heavy rain leads to flood warnings in many parts of southern England, while more snow falls in other UK areas. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Nissan to cut 20,000 global jobs Nissan is to cut 20,000 jobs worldwide as the Japanese carmaker says the global auto industry is in "turmoil". |
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| French carmakers get 6.5bn euros France is to loan 6.5bn euros to three carmakers, President Nicolas Sarkozy has said. | |
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| Obama warning on stimulus delay Barack Obama makes a public pitch for his stimulus plan, warning further delays will lead to "deepening disaster". | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Rocker Plant raises Grammys roof Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant dominates the Grammy Awards, winning five prizes for his work with Alison Krauss. |
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| Slumdog sweeps to Bafta success British film Slumdog Millionaire wins seven prizes at the Bafta Film Awards, where Kate Winslet is also recognised. | |
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| Potter actor 'knifed five times' An actor who was to appear in the next Harry Potter film was murdered trying to protect his younger brother, a court hears. | |
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| SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT | |
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 | Hadron Collider relaunch delayed The Hadron Collider could be switched back on in September - a year after it shut down and months later than expected. |
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| 'Silver sensation' seeks cold cosmos The European Space Agency's Herschel observatory is finished and ready to go into orbit, to study the processes that form stars and galaxies. | |
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| Photosynthesis viewed in a flash Using ultra-short laser pulses, scientists hope to understand how plants harvest the Sun's energy. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Amazon launches new Kindle reader Amazon has released the second version of its Kindle electronic book reader, which is slimmer but still costs $359 (£244). |
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| Dance show for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been confirmed as a contestant on the US dance competition Dancing with the Stars. | |
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| Job cuts ground Flight Simulator Microsoft has laid off the entire development team of its long-running MS Flight Simulator series. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Marijuana testicular cancer link Frequent or long-term marijuana use may raise a man's risk of testicular cancer, American research suggests. |
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| Psychopaths' 'early release con' A study suggests psychopaths are more likely to be released from prison - even though they are more likely to re-offend. | |
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| Footage of US octuplets released The first pictures of Californian octuplets, whose single mother already had six children, are released. | |
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| 1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade United States Senator Joe McCarthy accuses more than 200 staff in the State Department of being Communists. | |||
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| 1979: Forest break football transfer record Football club Nottingham Forest clinches Britain's first £1m transfer deal. | |||
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| 1983: Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers A nationwide hunt for 1981 Derby winner and prize stallion Shergar begins in Ireland. | |||
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Scolari sacked as Chelsea manager Chelsea announce the shock dismissal of manager Luiz Felipe Scolari with immediate effect, after just seven months in charge. |
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| Baseball star admits steroid use American baseball is thrown into disarray after its highest-paid player Alex Rodriguez admits using performance-enhancing drugs. | |
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| Australia v N Zealand live score Australia take on New Zealand in Adelaide in the fourth match of their one-day series. | |
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| Murray faces tricky Ljubicic task Andy Murray plays Ivan Ljubicic while Rafael Nadal will also be in action in the Rotterdam World Tennis Tournament on Tuesday. | |
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| No need for change, insists Cook England opener Alastair Cook claims there is no need for radical change ahead of the second Test against the West Indies in Antigua on Friday. | |
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| FOOTBALL | |
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| Scolari sacked as Chelsea manager Chelsea announce the shock dismissal of manager Luiz Felipe Scolari with immediate effect, after just seven months in charge. |
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| Adams 'surprised' at Pompey axe Tony Adams says he is surprised to have been sacked as manager of Portsmouth. | |
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| Luke Young out of Spain friendly Aston Villa defender Luke Young is ruled out of England's friendly against Spain on Wednesday with a toe injury. | |
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| CRICKET | |
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 | No need for change, insists Cook England opener Alastair Cook claims there is no need for radical change ahead of the second Test against the West Indies in Antigua on Friday. |
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| MacLaurin urges coach appointment Former England cricket chief Lord MacLaurin says Giles Clarke's priority must be to appoint a senior coach in time for this summer's Ashes. | |
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| Australia v N Zealand live score Australia take on New Zealand in Adelaide in the fourth match of their one-day series. | |
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| TENNIS | |
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 | Murray faces tricky Ljubicic task Andy Murray plays Ivan Ljubicic while Rafael Nadal will also be in action in the Rotterdam World Tennis Tournament on Tuesday. |
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| Tsonga clinches South Africa win Top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga wins his third ATP title with a 6-4 7-6 (7-5) victory over fellow Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in the SA Tennis Open final. | |
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| Jankovic win seals Serbia berth Jelena Jankovic's 6-3 6-2 win over Ai Sugiyama puts Serbia through to the Fed Cup World Group play-offs for the first time at the expense of Japan. | |
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| MOTORSPORT | |
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 | Red Bull expect wins from new car Red Bull unveil one of the new season's most eagerly anticipated new cars, saying they expect to win races in 2009. |
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| Drivers hit back in licences row F1 drivers accuse motorsport's governing body of wanting to increase the cost of their racing licences to boost its budget. | |
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| Bourdais seat cuts Button options Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais earns a second year at Toro Rosso, reducing British driver Jenson Button's hopes of staying in Formula One. | |
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