BBC News - Home
The latest stories from the Home section of the BBC News web site.

• China 'frustrated' by North Korea
  Senior Chinese officials have expressed frustration with their "spoiled child" ally North Korea, according to leaked classified US diplomatic cables.
• Councils get public health role
  Councils are to be put in charge of encouraging healthier lifestyles under new plans to be unveiled by ministers.
• Snow spreading across much of UK
  Fresh snow falls across many parts of the UK, bringing disruption to some areas not previously affected and closing hundreds of schools.
• IOC to examine Fifa bribe claims
  The International Olympic Committee is to investigate BBC claims of corruption against Fifa Vice-President Issa Hayatou, also an IOC member.
• Doubts over Dizaei trial witness
  Doubts emerge about the main prosecution witness in the trial of former Metropolitan Police commander Ali Dizaei.
• Clegg in fresh appeal to students
  Nick Clegg urges students to reflect on what he says is the "true picture" about the government's proposals for higher tuition fees in England.
• Three top Fifa men 'took bribes'
  Three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s, the BBC's Panorama alleges.
• N Korea makes nuclear plant boast
  North Korea says it has thousands of centrifuges operating at a previously undetected uranium enrichment facility it revealed earlier this month.
• Protesters storm council meeting
  Four people are arrested and 15 police officers injured as protesters storm a town hall in south London.
• All hostages freed at US school
  A student armed with a handgun holds 23 other students and a teacher hostage for several hours at a school in Wisconsin before shooting himself.
• New Scots powers being outlined
  Plans to give Scotland new powers to control a third of its budget are being unveiled by the UK government.

BBC News - Home
The latest stories from the Home section of the BBC News web site.

• Libya plans secret Gaddafi burial
  Libyan authorities plan a secret burial for ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, following his capture and death.
• Earth is warming, study concludes
  A study by an independent scientific project, set up in the wake of the "Climategate" email affair, concludes the Earth really is warming.
• Galileo sat-nav rides into orbit
  The first satellites for Galileo - Europe's GPS - are launched from French Guiana on a Soyuz rocket.
• Chinese hit-and-run toddler dies
  A two-year-old girl in southern China, who was run over by two vans in an incident which shocked the country, has died, hospital officials say.
• Eurozone crisis meetings to begin
  The first of several EU meetings to take place in Brussels over the next few days kicks off later, as divides remain on how to solve the debt crisis.
• Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android
  Steve Jobs said he would destroy Android and would spend all of Apple's money and his dying breath if necessary.
• Wales 18-21 Australia
  Wales' hopes of equalling their best World Cup finish are dashed as Australia win the third-place play-off at Auckland's Eden Park.
• Jo killing 'not motivated by sex'
  The man accused of murdering Bristol landscape architect Jo Yeates denies her killing was sexually motivated.
• Spain hails end of Eta militancy
  Spain's prime minister welcomes a decision by Basque separatist group Eta to end its armed campaign as a "a victory for democracy".
• Private sector rent 'at new high'
  Average monthly private sector housing rents rise 0.7% to a new high of £718, says a report by LSL Property Services.
• Murdochs to face pressure at AGM
  News Corp holds its AGM in Los Angeles later, its first since the phone-hacking scandal broke in the UK, amid calls for the Murdochs to step aside.