1993: Two boys charged with toddler's murder Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.

Sunday, January 31, 1999 Published at 06:07 GMT UK Lockerbie pair 'could have survived' Wreckage: 259 on board and 11 on the ground died New research has suggested that two victims of the Lockerbie airliner bombing could have survived the six-mile fall to earth only to die of exposure later, a newspaper has reported.

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Given the 20th century's reputation for conflict, it is perhaps not surprising that its final year saw the biggest European war since 1945, and closed with bloodshed as Russian troops marched into Chechnya.

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Dec 14, 2009 · This is likely to affect the capacity of organisms including molluscs, coral and plankton to form "hard parts" of calcium carbonate. A 2007 study showed that rates of coral growth on the Great Barrier Reef had fallen by 14% since 1990.

Oct 16, 2007 · One of the first people to reach the scene of the crash that killed Princess Diana has relived the horror, at the inquest into her death. James Huth said he was unable to see the princess because she was trapped so low in the car's footwell and was obscured by Dodi Al …

Dec 23, 2010 · During the height of the Blitz in 1940 up to 170,000 men, women and children would do that every night as bombs fell from the sky each night. Matthew Morris talks to some of the Blitz children who vividly remember spending nights on platforms as Tube trains trundled past.

Since the dawn of BBC TV news 50 years ago, successive prime ministers have sought to manipulate television to their own ends.

Dec 9, 2009 · The same fears were raised about the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, but it lived up to expectations, and not only as a sporting spectacle; the event showed the extent to which China had been welcomed as a truly global power, with an economic heft that outweighed the private qualms that many governments had about its human rights record.. But I've got a hunch that one of the really big stories of ...