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The Cromarty fisherfolk dialect appears to be the only descendant from the Germanic linguistic world in which no “wh” pronunciation existed. “‘Where’ would just be ‘ere’,” according to linguist Robert Millar.
A landslide buried 18 Chinese elementary school students and a villager in southwest China, state media said Thursday.
After Syrian attack on Turkish town, Turkey’s parliament OKs cross-border military operations. Ivan Watson reports.
The High Court in London ruled Friday that extremist Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other men will be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges, bringing to an end a years-long legal battle.
Several thousand protesters gathered in downtown Amman, Jordan, on Friday to demand political change.
Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was arrested as she traveled to cover the vehicular homicide trial of a Spanish politician for a Spanish newspaper, a human rights activist told CNN.
Tunisia’s president has formally apologized to a woman charged under an indecency law after being raped by two police officers, the state news agency reported Friday.
BBC Radio Cymru presenter Gareth Glyn announces he is leaving his week-day radio news show after 34 years to concentrate on composing music.
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said he is in favour of halving the time limit for abortions from 24 weeks to 12.
The jury in the harassment trial of comedian and television presenter Justin Lee Collins retires to consider its verdict.
An airline security worker is suspended after failing to spot a fake bomb as it passed through the X ray machine at Manchester airport.
A 38-year-old man who was diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (CCVHF) after flying into Glasgow dies in hospital.
People opposed to plans for the first of a new generation of nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point in Somerset gather for a protest.
A teenage human trafficking victim who believes she has been in the UK for three years is helped by police in Derbyshire.
The BBC is receiving reports of a serious accident on the A1 near Banbridge, County Down.
A 63-year-old woman dies following reports of a disturbance at a house in Troon, Ayrshire.