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BBC News with Jonathan Izzard
The Iraqi government has warned of grave consequences for Iraq and the region as a whole, if Turkey launches cross-border raids into northern Iraq to target Kurdish separatists' bases there. The Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi is visiting Ankara to encourage Turkey to take the option of diplomacy. He told journalists Iraq understood Turkey's frustration, but any action had to be agreed by both countries.
This has to be done in fact on mutual understanding. I think, Turkey in this situation, we understand the anger of the Turkish people, the Turkish government concerning the terrorism activities across the border. We feel very much sympathy.
The singer Madonna has announced that she's leaving her record label, Warner Music, to sign an uNPRecedented deal with the concert promotion company. The $120 million contract gives Live Nation the rights to distribute music and license the singer's name. From New York, Simoch Tetro reports.
For weeks, there has been speculation that Madonna was going to sign with Live Nation. Now she finally has. In a statement the 49-year-old said she was drawn to them because of the changes the music business has undergone in recent years. Madonna's been working with Warner Brothers for the past 25, but she says development in technology let her to think differently and signed with the Beverly Hills concert promoter. The deal gives Live Nation a share of Madonna's merchandising as well as concert tolls and record sales.
The High Court in the American State of Georgia has denied a stay of execution for a convicted killer, Jack Odemen, despite executions in other states being delayed over concerns about lethal injections. The US Supreme Court is to rule on whether carrying out death sentences by lethal injection is constitutional. Opponents say it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for Jack Odemen say their client would appeal against the Georgia Court's decision to proceed with the execution.
World News from the BBC.
The US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has warned that the fall in house prices is the most significant risk to the US economy. Mr Paulson called for an overhaul of laws governing mortgage lending to end the abusive practices that contributed to the current crisis. Here's our business editor, Alex Wilson.
This was the US government's most detailed reaction yet to America's plunging house prices. The crisis is widely acknowledged to have been caused by homeland companies offering large mortgages to some of the poorest people in America, loans that with hindsight they were never likely to be able to pay back. Mr. Paulson warns the problems are far from over and that they could yet get far worse. But he also said the US government wouldn't be helping lenders or property speculators.
The Argentine electoral authority says it's powerless to stop a small group of voters attempting to auction their votes for this month's presidential elections. The voters made the offers on local auction websites. They said they were taking the step to protest against what they saw as political incompetence.
The Irish writer Anne Enright has been awarded this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Gathering", a work described as a bleak Irish family saga. The Booker, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, is given to what the judges decide is the best novel of the year by a writer from Britain, Island or a Commonwealth country. The chair of the judges, Howard Davies, made the announcement.
"The decision that we have made is that this year's winner of the 'Man Booker Prize 2007' is 'The Gathering' by Anne Enright."
The Oscar won by the filmmaker Osen Wales in 1941 for Citizen Kane, is to be sold at auction in December. The Sotheby's auction house in New York says it expects to sell the golden statuette for as much as $1.2 million. Citizen Kane is considered to be one of the best films ever made.
And that's the latest BBC News.
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BBC News with Jonathan Izzard
The Iraqi government has warned of grave consequences for Iraq and the region as a whole, if Turkey launches cross-border raids into northern Iraq to target Kurdish separatists' bases there. The Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi is visiting Ankara to encourage Turkey to take the option of diplomacy. He told journalists Iraq understood Turkey's frustration, but any action had to be agreed by both countries.
This has to be done in fact on mutual understanding. I think, Turkey in this situation, we understand the anger of the Turkish people, the Turkish government concerning the terrorism activities across the border. We feel very much sympathy.
The singer Madonna has announced that she's leaving her record label, Warner Music, to sign an uNPRecedented deal with the concert promotion company. The $120 million contract gives Live Nation the rights to distribute music and license the singer's name. From New York, Simoch Tetro reports.
For weeks, there has been speculation that Madonna was going to sign with Live Nation. Now she finally has. In a statement the 49-year-old said she was drawn to them because of the changes the music business has undergone in recent years. Madonna's been working with Warner Brothers for the past 25, but she says development in technology let her to think differently and signed with the Beverly Hills concert promoter. The deal gives Live Nation a share of Madonna's merchandising as well as concert tolls and record sales.
The High Court in the American State of Georgia has denied a stay of execution for a convicted killer, Jack Odemen, despite executions in other states being delayed over concerns about lethal injections. The US Supreme Court is to rule on whether carrying out death sentences by lethal injection is constitutional. Opponents say it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for Jack Odemen say their client would appeal against the Georgia Court's decision to proceed with the execution.
World News from the BBC.
The US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has warned that the fall in house prices is the most significant risk to the US economy. Mr Paulson called for an overhaul of laws governing mortgage lending to end the abusive practices that contributed to the current crisis. Here's our business editor, Alex Wilson.
This was the US government's most detailed reaction yet to America's plunging house prices. The crisis is widely acknowledged to have been caused by homeland companies offering large mortgages to some of the poorest people in America, loans that with hindsight they were never likely to be able to pay back. Mr. Paulson warns the problems are far from over and that they could yet get far worse. But he also said the US government wouldn't be helping lenders or property speculators.
The Argentine electoral authority says it's powerless to stop a small group of voters attempting to auction their votes for this month's presidential elections. The voters made the offers on local auction websites. They said they were taking the step to protest against what they saw as political incompetence.
The Irish writer Anne Enright has been awarded this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Gathering", a work described as a bleak Irish family saga. The Booker, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, is given to what the judges decide is the best novel of the year by a writer from Britain, Island or a Commonwealth country. The chair of the judges, Howard Davies, made the announcement.
"The decision that we have made is that this year's winner of the 'Man Booker Prize 2007' is 'The Gathering' by Anne Enright."
The Oscar won by the filmmaker Osen Wales in 1941 for Citizen Kane, is to be sold at auction in December. The Sotheby's auction house in New York says it expects to sell the golden statuette for as much as $1.2 million. Citizen Kane is considered to be one of the best films ever made.
And that's the latest BBC News.
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