xml/World.xml en-gb The highlighted stories from the World category of the Spiderednews web site. Mon, 21 May 2012 11:21:18 GMT © 2012 SpideredNews.com15BBCMon, 21 May 2012 07:48:09 +0000A fire in West Lothian, which forced two people to escape from a house, is being treated as 'suspicious'.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999386http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999386United KingdomBOSTONMon, 21 May 2012 08:19:21 +0000A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Khttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999445http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999445GlobalBOSTONMon, 21 May 2012 08:49:22 +0000Residents of a quake-struck area of northeast Italy have spent the night in their cars, tents and in school gyms in fear of aftershocks after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake killed seven people. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999440http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999440GlobalBBCMon, 21 May 2012 09:00:52 +0000The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is on track and on budget, according to the latest progress report.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999387http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999387United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 08:19:54 +0000The operation to plug the gas leak on the Elgin Platform in the North Sea has been a success, oil firm Total says.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999381http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999381United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 09:54:12 +0000North West 200 director Mervyn Whyte describes Mark Buckley, the Scottish rider who was killed in the race as a "true gentleman who loved the sport."http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999307http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999307United KingdomFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 08:55:11 +0000Google's annual Zeitgeist conference, held in the luxury Grove hotel in Herefordshire, begins today with a celebrity line-up of speakers said to include former US President Bill Clinton and mohttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999280http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999280USABBCMon, 21 May 2012 06:54:44 +0000Chelsea striker Fernando Torres wants talks with the club about his future after suffering the 'worst moments' of his career.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999190http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999190United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 05:27:58 +0000A County Londonderry community group secures more than £500,000 in funding to protect endangered woodland.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999324http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999324United KingdomNYTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 07:20:37 +0000The Ethiopian News Agency is planning a 24-7 TV news channel in four languages -- if it earns government approval. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999304http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999304Eastern AfricaBBCMon, 21 May 2012 06:31:21 +0000A leading solicitor calls for a change to the law on compensation for criminal damage.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999298http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999298United KingdomGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 02:59:13 +0000He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters - a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the sky a generation ago. Hihttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999452http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999452North AfricaGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 04:28:04 +0000Baton-swinging police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday and a lawyers' group representing the demonstrators said at least 12 people were injuredhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999443http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999443WorldBOSTONMon, 21 May 2012 08:09:20 +0000Yemeni security officials say militants have opened fire on three U.S. Coast Guard trainers in western Yemen, wounding one. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999449http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999449GlobalBBCMon, 21 May 2012 07:52:30 +0000York City fans and players are celebrating the club's promotion to the Football Leaguehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999281http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999281United KingdomGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 07:11:13 +0000He joined McKinsey & Company, the elite and secretive management-consulting firm as an earnest, under-stated young man, fresh out of Harvard Business School, and IIT Delhi before that. He rosehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999430http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999430WorldGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 09:03:43 +0000A German, a Nepal-born Canadian and a Korean climber died on Saturday, and two others are still missing while descending from Mt everest, said Nepalese Mountaineering Department official Gyanehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999413http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999413IndiaGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 09:26:12 +0000Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York Universihttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999409http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999409ChinaGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 08:52:17 +0000President Obama was struggling to balance the United States' relationship with two crucial but difficult allies on Sunday, after a deal to reopen supply lines through Pakistan to Afghanistan fhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999425http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999425AfghanistanBBCMon, 21 May 2012 08:29:19 +0000Patients in England will be able to book GP appointments and get test results online within three years, ministers are promising.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999133http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999133United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 08:39:17 +0000Dr Kate Williams and Lord Tony Hall discuss the list of 60 people who have shaped modern history.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999213http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999213United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 00:55:47 +0000Environmentalists fear the UK government's draft energy bill to be published on Tuesday will end in a new "dash for gas".http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999148http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999148United KingdomFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 08:30:43 +0000Gardeners at Chelsea Flower Show are being given test kits to identify Sudden Oak Death, a deadly plant disease that is sweeping the country.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999305http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999305WorldBBCMon, 21 May 2012 05:08:53 +0000Carey Mulligan backs a call for dementia awareness as a poll highlights the impact on families and friends.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999141http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999141United KingdomIBTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 04:56:09 +0000Three weeks since her body was discovered dead in a creek, the suspect(s) behind the killing of Queenslander Allison Baden-Clay has not been arrested. Reports of her husband's affair have surhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999100http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999100AsiaBBCMon, 21 May 2012 08:53:45 +0000A church charity has found that the ten poorest parishes in England are all in the North, and nine of them are in the North West.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999200http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999200United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 09:01:16 +0000Former British Army Captain David Blakeley discusses his new book about a secretive mission in Iraq in 2003.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999203http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999203United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 09:22:44 +0000Exhibitors at this year's Chelsea Flower Show have delivered more water-friendly gardens in response to drought conditions and hosepipe bans.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999209http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999209United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 06:22:13 +0000A report published today suggests that Britain should change its regime on child care, and allow more people to become childminders. In the first of two reports, Sanchia Berg looks at how the http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999207http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999207United KingdomGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000At first, everyone suspected the mob but even the mafia said it would never have planned such an act. Who could be behind it?http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999382http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999382ItalyFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 02:38:47 +0000More than 100 young relatives and friends of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's family gather in preparation of funeral.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999247http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999247WorldIBTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 06:02:33 +0000A 6.0 magnitude earthquake recently hit the north-central part of Italy which caused the death of at least 6 people and injured at least 50 individuals. The earthquake also caused the collapsehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999097http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999097AsiaBBCMon, 21 May 2012 07:35:43 +0000The funeral of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is due to take place in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, later.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999180http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999180United KingdomIBTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 04:25:50 +0000According to reports, around 58 men and 38 women were detained including foreigners, celebrities, two players of the Indian Premier League and several high-profile peoplehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999103http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999103IndiaGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000A former Libyan intelligence agent, Megrahi died amid unresolved controversies: Whether he was freed to facilitate an oil deal; and whether he was guilty in the first place.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999380http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999380North AfricaBBCMon, 21 May 2012 00:33:59 +0000Nine out of the ten poorest areas in England are in the North West, a church charity survey shows.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999156http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999156United KingdomBBCMon, 21 May 2012 06:55:01 +0000A retiring chief constable says police could miss crime such as anti-social behaviour because of the impact of UK government cuts.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999151http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999151United KingdomFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 06:00:22 +0000A parking space with a million-dollar price tag has gone on the market in New York City.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999234http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999234USAIBTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 07:41:40 +0000Group of climbers including German doctor Eberhard Schaaf, 61, were descending from peak of tallest mountain in the world when cut off by bad weather.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999094http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999094AsiaBBCMon, 21 May 2012 08:47:06 +0000A US-Pakistan row over supply routes to Afghanistan is casting a cloud over the Nato summit in Chicago, as leaders discuss troop withdrawals.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999196http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999196United KingdomTOPIXSun, 20 May 2012 23:48:00 +0000 Four, including a Briton, had been accused of illegally entering disputed border area last month to spy for South Sudan Sudan has released four foreigners seized last month along its disputehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999256http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999256SudanFTSun, 20 May 2012 22:16:57 +0000South Africa to oblige merchants to provide special identification for goods made in occupied territorieshttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999224http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999224South AfricaBBCSun, 20 May 2012 23:45:04 +0000Scotland's jobs market has shown its strongest improvement for nearly a year, according to a new bank survey.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999400http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999400United KingdomFEEDSPORTALSun, 20 May 2012 21:52:30 +0000British relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims call for public inquiry after death of only man convicted of atrocity.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999276http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999276WorldIBTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 00:35:44 +0000Independent Senator Nick Xenophon said on Monday that he would not stand in the way of a repeal of the carbon tax if Opposition leader Tony Abbott becomes the next prime minister of Australia.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999112http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999112AsiaBBCSun, 20 May 2012 16:49:19 +0000Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999217http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999217United KingdomYAHOOSun, 20 May 2012 18:04:59 +0000 South Africa's renegade ex-youth leader Julius Malema received large and questionable payments from businesses in his home province of Limpopo, a newspaper reported Sunday.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999367http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999367South AfricaYAHOOSun, 20 May 2012 19:50:39 +0000 The cars rumbled to a dusty halt outside the community centre of a farming village miles from Cairo, where men -- from the elderly village chief to the university student -- prepared to engahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999352http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999352AfricaYAHOOSun, 20 May 2012 17:43:49 +0000 Several hundred activists took part in a one-day hunger strike in Cairo on Sunday to protest the ruling military council's continued use of military courts to try civilians.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999375http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999375AfricaBBCSun, 20 May 2012 15:04:46 +0000Families at service for new Falklands War Memorialhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999227http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999227United Kingdom