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Jul 26, 2010

2,000-year-old Ptolemaic statue found in Egypt

 Huge headless granite statue of the king Ptolemy IV
Archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV and represented the traditional shape of an ancient Egyptian king wearing collar and kilt Photo: EPA
An Egyptian-Dominican team made the discovery at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria, said a statement from the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Alexandria was the seat of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled Egypt for 300 years, until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra.

British Museum under pressure to give up leading treasures of Egypt

British museum under pressure to give up leading treasures: Rosetta Stone 
The Rosetta Stone at the British museum in London Photo: AP
The demand, issued in Cairo at the end of a two-day conference, is addressed to every country that holds ancient relics.
Western museum hold most of the items listed by countries ranging from China to Mexico. The British museum is the principal target because of the prominence of the artefacts it owns.

Cleopatra papyrus goes on display

Two fragments of papyrus featuring the handwriting of Cleopatra

Two fragments of papyrus featuring the handwriting of Cleopatra Photo: REUTERS
The document with the Greek inscription, "make it happen," refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. It is one of 150 artifacts in an exhibition featuring the latest discoveries in an intensifying search for her long-lost tomb.

Buried ancient Egyptian city revealed by radar imaging

Bus driver shoots six dead near Cairo

Policemen stand guard at the site of the shooting in Cairo. At least six people were shot dead by a bus driver today (Tuesday) and at least 12 wounded, a local source said.

Policemen stand guard at the site of the shooting in Cairo. Photo: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
Mahmud Taha Ahmad Sueilem, 54, the driver for the company Arab Contractors, was taking 22 employees to their workplace in Giza when he stopped the bus at Meniel Shiha, 12 miles south of the Egyptian capital, and suddenly started firing, an official said.

Plato: ancient Greek philosopher's 'secret music code' cracked by British scientists

Greek man wins £175,000 over Turkish yoghurt picture

A Greek man has received compensation after a Swedish dairy used his picture on a Turkish-recipe yoghurt pot. 
A Greek man has received compensation after a Swedish dairy used his picture on a Turkish-recipe yoghurt pot.
The 77-year-old man, who was angry at being portrayed as a Turk, the traditional national enemy of Greeks, originally demanded £4.5 million in damages for the use, without permission, of his image.
His photograph, with distinctive long moustache, red hat and traditional Greek dress, has been used on millions of yoghurt tubs marketed as a Turkish-style product.

Northern Cyprus plans to become Mediterranean 'Las Vegas'

Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus

The centre of the casino world in North Cyprus is Kyrenia
The Turkish enclave of Cyprus has announced proposals for a series of glamorous new resorts and shopping arcades in a move which risks straining relations with the south.
Details were revealed by a new hardline leadership in the north as it prepared to mark the 36th anniversary of the Turkish invasion today.

BBC News - Putin says spies expelled from US had 'tough lives'

Russian PM Vladimir Putin during a visit to Ukraine. Photo: 24 July 2010
Mr Putin said that the spies "had a tough life"

India politician held over murder in Gujarat

Maoist rebels 'killed' in India's West Bengal state

Pakistan suicide bomber targets mourners

Hezbollah members 'facing Rafik Hariri charges'

Hassan Nasrallah appearing on al-Manar TV, file pic
Mr Nasrallah claimed the UN-backed tribunal was politically motivated

Oaxaca festival in Mexico highlights indigenous pride

The Chirinos Chinas family
The Chirinos Chinas family are performing in the Guelaguetza
An old Mexican man, with a big moustache and wearing a wide sombrero, ambles into the sunlit Benito Juarez auditorium in Oaxaca City, clutching a live, twitching turkey.
Looking around for his fellow villagers, he passes rows of vividly embroidered traditional dresses, pineapples with red ribbons tied round their middles in bows, and thousands of sombreros like his own.

Cuban President Raul Castro set for 26 July speech

People walk past a billboard that reads in Spanish "Everything for the Revolution," with images of revolutionary leaders, from left, Julio Antonio Mella, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos in Havana,
Monday's celebrations recall the start of the Cuban revolution
Cuban President Raul Castro is set to make one of his rare televised speeches at the annual 26 July rally which marks the start of the revolution in 1953.
Many Cubans will be hoping that he will use the event to move on his long-awaited economic reforms.

Venezuela head threatens US oil cut over Colombia row

Leaked records 'reveal civilian deaths' in Afghanistan

British troops in Afghanistan
The files have been passed on to three news organisations

Burma leader's India visit draws rights criticism

Gen Than Shwe
Burma and India have enjoyed warm relations over the last 10 years
Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe has arrived in India for a controversial five-day visit, which has been condemned by rights groups.
The junta leader is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a trip that marks India's desire to strengthen trade links with its neighbour.
Rights groups have written to Mr Singh saying it was "unbecoming" of a democracy to welcome

EU to tighten sanctions over Iran nuclear programme

BBC News - Al-Qaeda in North Africa 'kills French hostage'

Michel Germaneau (2007)

Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old retired engineer, was kidnapped in Niger in April

Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch found guilty

US says Wikileaks could 'threaten national security'

A US soldier looks on as two Afghan police officers frisk civilians - 21 July 2010

The leaks raise "serious" questions about US policy in the region, a senior US senator has said

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Firefighters battle French forest blazes

Festival organisers 'ignored Death Tunnel safety advice' -Germany

Rescue workers treat an injured person as firefighters and policemen survey the scene 

Rescue workers treat an injured person as firefighters and policemen survey the scene

Child-murderer, paedophile, drug addict: so they left Venables living near a school

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Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history

Taliban offer US navy body in exchange for prisoners

US army's forward base in Logar province

The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a US navy member they say was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said today.

Tony Hayward to quit BP | Business | The Guardian

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward listens during a news conference in London

Tony Hayward's departure will be announced tomorrow Photograph: Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett

Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, is to leave the company, bowing to pressure over his handling of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the aftermath of which has become America's worst environmental disaster.

Eamonn Holmes gets the BBC jokes eating away at him banned | Life and style

Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford.
Asking Eamonn not to act like a plonker is as pointless as arguing against gravity' . . . Holmes pictured with co-presenter Ruth Langsford. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex
First up, a sorry dispatch from the Great Celebrity Adipose Wars – a conflict that finally has its Hutton report. Once again, the BBC has issued a humiliating apology for its output, although this time the beneficiary is not Alastair Campbell but Eamonn Holmes. The main thing is, the good guys are still winning.

Casablanca writ large | Travel

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Tahir Shah in the restored library of Dar Khalifa, and its original pool Photograph: Ingrid Pullar
Seven years ago, exasperated by living in a tiny London flat, the writer Tahir Shah enacted the cherished fantasy of stressed city dwellers everywhere by uprooting his young family and decamping to a stunning house on the outskirts of Casablanca.

The big story is cricket but the news is all football

Didier Drogba 

Tune in for an update on the status of Didier Drogba's groin injury. Photograph: Tom Jenkins
With most of the big free-to-air sport – World Cup, Wimbledon, the Open – finished, we now enter a kind of pending period before football starts again, a two‑week hiatus that enthusiasts and terminal nostalgists like to call the cricket season.

Manchester City willing to break transfer record for Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres

Liverpool are uncertain of holding on to their star striker Fernando Torres. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Roberto Mancini has confirmed Manchester City are willing to underwrite a British record transfer for Fernando Torres should the Spaniard decide to leave Liverpool.

Kansas City Wizards 2-1 Manchester United | Friendly match report | Football

Kansas City Wizards 

Kansas City Wizards celebrate Davy Arnaud's opener against Manchester United. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP