Tears welled in Li Jian's eyes whenever President Hu Jintao mentioned the environment in his speech to Communist Party delegates gathered in the Great Hall of the People during China's most important political event of the decade. BBC head of news "steps aside" over abuse scandal
LONDON (Reuters) – The two most senior figures at BBC News stepped aside on Monday a day after the chairman of the broadcaster’s governing body said it needed a radical overhaul to survive a child sex abuse scandal, it said. Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News, and her deputy Steve Mitchell, stepped aside two days after the director general quit to take the blame for the airing of false child sex abuse allegations against a former politician. …
Official: Syrian fighter jet bombs an area close the Turkish border; several injured
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey – Officials and witnesses say a Syrian fighter jet has bombed an area close to the Turkish border, causing injuries.
Total still hopes to restart Elgin gas field this year
DUBAI (Reuters) – French oil company Total still hopes to restart gas production at the Elgin Franklin platform in the North Sea by year end but it may not be possible until early next year, a senior executive said on Sunday. The fields were shut after a gas leak in May and the company had aimed to restart production by the end of the year, but that may depend on whether British safety regulator the HSE is happy with the company's restart plan. "We still have the objective of restarting the fields at the end of this year to the beginning of next year. … Rocket fire from Gaza intensifies
Gaza militants launched 10 rockets into southern Israel by midday Monday, including one that struck the yard of a house, the military said. The barrage ramps up pressure on the Israeli government to stage a large-scale operation aimed at stopping the persistent attacks. Outoing BBC chief leaves with year's salary
The BBC says its former director-general will get a full year's salary after 54 days in the post. Resilient Afghan governor frets about budget, not bombs
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In four years serving as a governor in southern Afghanistan, Tooryalai Wesa has survived nine assassination attempts, most recently by a visitor who hid a pistol in the sole of his shoe. It is a measure of the changes unfolding in his native Kandahar province — also the birthplace of the Taliban — that he seems more preoccupied with the size of his budget than the risk that his enemies might kill him. “We don’t have enough resources from the government,” the burly technocrat said in an interview at his compound. …
Afghans find hope for justice in video testimony
Through a video monitor in a military courtroom near Seattle, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales saw young Afghan girls smile beneath bright head coverings before they described the bloodbath he's accused of committing. Syrian jet bombs area near Turkish border
Officials and witnesses say a Syrian fighter jet has bombed an area close to the Turkish border, causing injuries.
Report: Iran VP threatens 'grasping' Obama
A semi-official Iranian news agency reports that the Islamic Republic’s vice president has said Tehran will break the ‘grasping hands’ of newly re-elected President Barack Obama.
Israel warns of tough response after Gaza rocket hits house
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a house in southern Israel on Monday, causing damage but no injuries, and Israeli officials quickly warned of a tough response to the latest surge in violence. The rocket hit the town of Netivot, ending a brief overnight lull to three days of fighting, which has left six Palestinians dead, including four civilians, and 40 wounded. Eight Israelis have also been wounded in the cross-border attacks. “We have a full box of tools … that we have not yet used,” Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon told Army Radio. …
Buried in a bleak text, hope for a Chinese political experiment
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao's opening speech at the ongoing 18th Party Congress was a disappointment to many listeners, offering no major signals that the leadership is willing to advance political reform. The 64-page keynote speech he delivered was couched in the usual conservative and Marxist terminology, but one paragraph buried deep in the text was just what proponents of a long-running experiment in public policy consultations have been waiting for. The section in question urged the ruling party to "improve the system of socialist consultative democracy". … 
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