BBC News | World | UK EditionVisit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.Israel and Hamas 'agree truce'- June 17, 2008 Israel and Hamas agree a truce starting this Thursday, Palestinian officials tell the BBC after Egyptian-brokered talks.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7459200.stm TV hostages freed in Philippines- June 17, 2008 A popular Philippines TV presenter, her cameraman and an academic are freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf kidnappers.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7460123.stm Off base- June 17, 2008 Military cuts spark economic fears for French townshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7460052.stm 'Historic' Pakistan defence move- June 17, 2008 The Pakistani finance minister reveals defence budget details for the first time in 40 years.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7459867.stm Yeti quest- June 17, 2008 Could an ape-like creature roam hills in north-east Indiahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7457894.stm Atom expert rejects weapon 'lies'- June 17, 2008 Disgraced Pakistani scientist AQ Khan denies giving blueprints for advanced nuclear warheads to Swiss smugglers.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7459903.stm More floods threaten south China- June 17, 2008 Mass evacuations and river reinforcements are under way in southern China amid fears of more bad flooding.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7459628.stm Space cameras to monitor forests- June 17, 2008 Plans to use high resolution cameras in space to monitor deforestation in the Congo Basin are unveiled.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7459472.stm E Guinea seeks 30 years for Mann- June 17, 2008 Prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea call for British mercenary Simon Mann to serve 30 years in jail for his 2004 coup plot.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7458274.stm Villagers in Romania elect a dead man as their mayor- June 17, 2008 Villagers in north-eastern Romania elect a dead man as their mayor, to avoid giving votes to his living rival.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7459695.stm |