The Little Hacker's Room

Environ 3400 foyers néo-écossais sont toujours privés d'électricité après le passage, samedi, de la tempête tropicale Earl. Nova Scotia Power poursuit ses efforts pour rebrancher les foyers toujours privés d'électricité.

British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.

Afghanistan's central bank promises to back Kabul Bank as customers continue to take out their savings.

Guatemalan officials say they have given up hope for dozens buried by mud as they tried to rescue other trapped people.

Industry leaders and council officials say Wales is more vulnerable to public cuts due to high public sector employment.

The Metropolitan Police will consider new evidence about allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.

Stand-up comic Robert Schimmel, a regular guest on Conan O'Brian's show, has died following a car accident.

Five men are found stabbed near a Tube station close to London's O2 Arena in east London.

Google proposes paying $8.5m (£5.5m) to settle a class-action lawsuit brought over its Buzz social network, launched earlier this year.

A 70cm (27-inch) tall Colombian is named the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records.

The actor Dominc Cooper talks to BBC Breakfast about his role in Tamara Drewe and intrigue in the countryside.

North Korea says it will release the crew of a South Korean fishing boat seized in waters east of the Korean peninsula one month ago.

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A court in Japan gives one-year suspended jail sentences to two anti-whaling activists from Greenpeace for stealing whale meat in 2008.

New car sales fell 17.5% in August - the second consecutive month of declines, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

Tony Blair warns the authorities on both sides of the Irish border not to underestimate the threat posed by dissident republicans.

A bill to hold an independence referendum will not be put to a vote before the 2011 elections, the Scottish government confirms.