Iceland govt has collapsed
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Iceland's coalition government has collapsed under the strain of an escalating economic crisis.
'Supermodel' satellite set to fly
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Not the kind of "supermodel" you're thinking about, but interesting nonetheless.
World's cheapest car is launched
(news.bbc.co.uk) - The Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, has been launched in India.
Costing just 100,000 rupees ($1,979; £1,366), the Nano will now go on sale across India next month, with deliveries starting in July.
'Juliet' balcony to host weddings
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Every girl's dream wedding. And by "every girl" I mean weird literary girls and girls obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio circa the '90s.
World's heaviest man set to marry
(news.bbc.co.uk) - The world's heaviest man says he is to marry his girlfriend later this month after losing nearly half his original body weight.
Bionic eye gives blind man sight
(news.bbc.co.uk) - A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II.
FBI called in over Wolverine leak
(news.bbc.co.uk) - The FBI are investigating the online leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a month before the film's cinema release.
Volunteers flock to space experiment
(news.bbc.co.uk) - What would you be prepared to do for money? For $6,500 (£4,500) a month, to be precise?
How about the following: locking yourself inside a small metal container for three months without any communication with the outside world, with electronic monitors attached to various parts of your body and with More...
Chinese 'find' radioactive ball
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Chinese officials say that potentially deadly radioactive material lost in north-western Shaanxi province may have been found at a steel mill.
Outrage over AIG dominates US media
(news.bbc.co.uk) - "Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn't show up at all," the paper reports.
Mother guilty over smoking boy...who just happens to be 3 YEARS OLD!
(news.bbc.co.uk) - A three-year-old boy lit a cigarette butt and smoked it in front of his mother, Merthyr Crown Court has heard.
The incident was filmed on a mobile and passed to social services by a friend of the boy's mother Kelly Marie Pocock.
The friend earlier spotted him smoking a cigarette and said it looked like he had been "smoking for many years".
Plane crash in NY - 50 dead
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Intense heat is keeping investigators from the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed in New York state, killing 50 people in the early hours of Friday.
US rates slashed to nearly zero
(news.bbc.co.uk) - The US Federal Reserve has slashed its key interest rate from 1% to a range of between zero and 0.25% as it battles the country's recession.
Illinois to Blagojevich: cya
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Mr Blagojevich said he was "saddened and disappointed" by the verdict but "not at all surprised" and would fight to clear his name.
Chinese ships 'harass' US vessel
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Five Chinese ships have manoeuvred dangerously close to an unarmed US navy surveillance vessel in the South China Sea, the US government says.
US officials said the incident on Sunday came after days of "increasingly aggressive" acts by Chinese ships.
Global music sales tumble by 8%
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Global music sales fell by more than 8% to $18.42bn (£12.67bn) in 2008, according to the body that represents the record industry worldwide.
Stoned wallabies make crop circles
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.
Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.
Penguins get protection from...snipers
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.
The deployment follows the mysterious deaths of nine of the flightless birds over the last two weeks.
The mutilated bodies of the animals, known as fairy penguins, were found in a national park near Sydney harbour.
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Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
(news.bbc.co.uk) - The Nobel Committee said he won it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
The committee highlighted Mr Obama's efforts to support international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.
Mr Obama's spokesman said the president was "humbled" to have won the prize. He said he woke Mr Obama up with the news early on Friday.
What happened to global warming?
(news.bbc.co.uk) - This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one.
The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot.
China warns Obama not to meet Dalai Lama
(news.bbc.co.uk) - China has warned that ties with the US would be undermined if US President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama.
There is speculation that Mr Obama will meet the Tibetan spiritual leader in Washington later this month, but no date has been confirmed.
In pictures: Nashville floods
(news.bbc.co.uk) - This only scratches the surface of some of the hardest hit areas...
