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Manning given 35 years for leaks

A military court in the US has sentenced Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks, to 35 years in prison. The judge at the court martial in Fort Meade also ruled he should be dishonourably discharged from the US army...

Feb 07,2014
Congo deforestation in surprise fall

Scientists say that the cutting down of trees in one of the world's largest rainforests has dramatically decreased. A new study shows that deforestation in central Africa's Congo Basin has fallen by about a third since 2000. The study is published in the Royal Society's journal...

Feb 07,2014
Camels could be source of deadly virus

Scientists studying a deadly virus say they are closer to finding its source. Research suggests that camels could be responsible for passing Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - or MERS - to humans. The study is published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases...

Feb 07,2014
Climate change violence

Changes to the climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, according to a report in the journal Science. It said even small changes in temperature or rainfall were associated with a rise in conflict...

Feb 07,2014
Haiti cholera claims

A group of top international scientists studying a widespread outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean state of Haiti has found that the disease probably came from United Nations peacekeepers. This discovery could have a big effect on a multi-billion-dollar compensation claim from people affected by the ..

Feb 07,2014
What next for the royal baby boy?

The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy. For the first time in British history, it made no difference if the royal child was a boy or a girl - the baby would be third in line to the throne regardless. But the new law, which was changed especially for this baby, will not be put to the t..

Feb 07,2014
Edward Snowden still in transit

Edward Snowden, the man who leaked information about US intelligence, is expected to meet with human rights groups in Moscow today. The former CIA contractor is wanted by the US on charges of giving away secrets about US spying schemes. ..

Feb 07,2014
Twitter helps non-Arabic speakers

Twitter has launched a translation tool to help non-Arabic speakers understand what's going on in Egypt. It automatically translates messages posted by leading figures in the protests into the reader's own language. ..

Feb 07,2014
Croatia enters the European Union

The European Union now has 28 member states. Croatia officially joined on Monday after a process that lasted almost a decade. Thousands of people attended a special event in the capital Zagreb to mark the occasion. But the new era has been greeted cautiously by both locals and foreign officials...

Feb 07,2014
Chile school protests

The police in Chile have arrested 122 people, many of them children, in raids on 28 secondary schools that had been taken over by their pupils. The schools are due to be used as polling stations in primary elections this weekend. ..

Feb 07,2014