Breaking NEWS from the UK, USA and Around the World... http://www.thenewsdump.com/news/UK/world en-us SELECT DISTINCT (news_news.news_id), news_news_content.title, news_news_content.text, news_news.timestamp FROM news_news_content, news_news WHERE news_news_content.id = news_news.news_id AND news_news.topic = "world" AND news_news.country = "UK" ORDER BY news_news.timestamp DESC LIMIT 0, 10 A 14part series that attempts to make simple and accessible one of the most complex subjects imaginable will be distributed via booklets given away free with The Independent and The Independent on Sunday beginning tomorrow and will simultaneously be made available at independentcoukhistoryoftheworld Starting with the origins of the Universe itself it traces the formation of our planet the first stirrings of life the shaping of the continents the evolution of species the birth of the human race and the millennia of history that have led up to the sophisticated but precarious civilisations of the present day http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/676995_the_world_a_pocket_history.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/676995_the_world_a_pocket_history.html Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:00:53 -0500 From the sexual advances of zooplankton to owl monkeys in the moonlight the pick of this weeks images from the natural world http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111493_in_pictures__the_week_in_wildlife.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111493_in_pictures__the_week_in_wildlife.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:45:50 -0500 At least one person has been killed and 30 injured by a gas explosion in San Bruno a residential neighbourhood near San Francisco About 20 homes caught fire http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111494_san_bruno_explosion.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111494_san_bruno_explosion.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:39:08 -0500 Russell Kings travel ban follows a plea from a Jerseybased firm Close Finance which is pursuing him for 2m Russell King the businessman under investigation for fraud in Jersey whose powers of persuasion coaxed former England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson to join League Two Notts County last year has been slapped with a travel ban preventing him from leaving his Bahrain baseThe embargo has been ordered by government officials in the kingdom according to documents seen by the Guardian and follows a plea from a Jerseybased company called Close Finance which is pursuing the businessman for 2m in outstanding loans The order also freezes assets King holds in the kingdom up to that amountThe dispute between Close and King has already resulted in a judge freezing 2m of his assets on Jersey in 2008 when the finance firm believed the businessman was about to sell his house and leave the island court documents showThe sale of the property called Carrefour au Clerq is still viewed by Close as a possible source of funds to resolve the impasse but it is owned by a trust of which King is a beneficiary The trust is managed by Barclays Bank which is understood to be resisting efforts to use the property to settle the debtBarclays declined to comment on its client or the case while King did not return emails sent to his Bahrain addressAs well as leading negotiations to buy Notts County by the investment vehicle Qadbak in July 2009 King was also involved with the recruitment of Eriksson as the then League Two clubs director of football Eriksson stayed with the club for just seven monthsIt later emerged that Eriksson had been promised a paper fortune if he also worked for a separate company called Swiss Commodity Holding SCHWhile few people in the mining industry had ever heard of SCH it was then claiming to have raw material assets worth an astonishing 197trn 127trn and said it was seeking a stock market listingKing was pictured representing the company when visiting Kim Yongnam one of North Koreas most powerful officials but SCH has since disappeared from view and changed its name to CoreminIt emerged last week that Coremin owes 173m to First London an investment bank with ties to King and which advised SCH and QadbakThe bank was once a public company and ran a Financial Services Authorityregulated division First London Securities which has now gone into administrationKing is under investigation by the Jersey Financial Services Commission for his role in the collapse of Belgravia Group a financial services firm that once tried to buy Newcastle UnitedKing was a spokesman and shareholder in the group which was on the verge of being acquired by First London before the Jersey authorities blocked the dealFinancial sectorFinancial Services Authority FSARegulatorsBahrainMiddle EastJerseySvenGran ErikssonSimon Goodleyguardiancouk Guardian News Media Limited 2010 Use of this content is subject to our Terms Conditions More Feeds http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111495_russell_king_prevented_from_leaving_bahrain.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111495_russell_king_prevented_from_leaving_bahrain.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:36:41 -0500 A selection of the best images from around the world http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111496_24_hours_in_pictures.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111496_24_hours_in_pictures.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:24:04 -0500 Ajang whose name means enormous in Nepalese was born last Tuesday http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111497_video_newborn_rhino_unveiled_at_whipsnade_zoo.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111497_video_newborn_rhino_unveiled_at_whipsnade_zoo.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:10:19 -0500 Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has filled 15 rooms at the Palace of Versailles with his first major retrospective in France http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111498_takashi_murakami_at_the_palace_of_versailles.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111498_takashi_murakami_at_the_palace_of_versailles.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:55:48 -0500 Deal agreed after Tehran threatens to cut cultural ties with British MuseumA Babylonian artefact sometimes described as the worlds first human rights charter is to go on display in Iran after Tehran threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not lend the objectThe Cyrus cylinder is a 6th century BC clay object inscribed with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great It arrived in Iran today and will go on display soon at Irans national museum for four months state TV reportedIran said it was in a dispute with the British Museum for months over its request for a loan of the object and had repeatedly threatened to cut ties with the institution At one point a senior Iranian cultural official accused the museum of turning a cultural issue into a political issueThe loan discussions which began last October took place during a time of tension between the two countries Tehran is under pressure from the west over its nuclear programme and it has accused Britain and other foreign governments of interfering in its domestic policies by stoking the street protests that followed the disputed presidential election in June 2009The British Museum said it acted in good faith throughout the negotiations and has a policy of cultural exchanges with other nations independent of political considerationsThe objects inscription describes how Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539BC and captured the last Babylonian king It also tells of how he then freed many people held captive by the Babylonians and arranged for them to return to their homelands It does not mention the Jews brought to Babylon as slaves by Nebuchadnezzar but their freedom was also part of that policyState TV said a delegation from the British Museum accompanied the artefact and another British expert would soon arrive to arrange its displayThe Cyrus cylinder is often called the worlds oldest human rights document but it was common in Mesopotamia for kings to begin their rule with such reform declarations according to the British MuseumIranMiddle EastArchaeologyHistory and history of artguardiancouk Guardian News Media Limited 2010 Use of this content is subject to our Terms Conditions More Feeds http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111499_cyrus_cylinder_worlds_oldest_human_rights_charter_returns_to_iran_on_loan.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111499_cyrus_cylinder_worlds_oldest_human_rights_charter_returns_to_iran_on_loan.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:51:09 -0500 Reaction from the Islamic world to an extremist American preachers threat to burn the holy book http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111500_video_quran_furore_on_muslims_minds_during_eid_al-fitr.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111500_video_quran_furore_on_muslims_minds_during_eid_al-fitr.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:07:30 -0500 Tigers a lone gorilla and monkeys that are made to fight with knives are among animals kept in cramped displays http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111501_grim_conditions_in_bangkok_department_store_zoo.html http://www.thenewsdump.com/news_item/1111501_grim_conditions_in_bangkok_department_store_zoo.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:53:10 -0500