Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union’s competition regulator against Google’s Motorola Mobility, saying the company’s aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules. The complaint follows a similar step by Apple against Motorola last week. Motorola is in the process of being taken over by Google for $12.5-billion, the biggest acquisition in the Californian company’s history.
22 February 2012 Last updated at 17:02 GMT Relatives of people killed in the revolution shouted outside the court in Cairo, demanding the death penalty for Mr Mubarak The judge in the trial of Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak has said he will deliver his verdict on 2 June. On the final day of six months of hearings, Mr Mubarak turned down the chance to address the court
22 February 2012 Last updated at 16:26 GMT Local people fear that the fire may have contaminated the fish they normally eat A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, Chevron has told the BBC. Two workers died after January’s explosion at the KS Endeavour exploration rig, owned by the US firm. Friends of the Earth says this is the world’s worst such accident in recent years
The former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in Senegal to observe and help mediate this weekend’s contentious election has begun a meeting with opposition candidates. In the meeting is Wade’s former protege, ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, Joy News’ Snr. International Correspondent, Jefferson Sackey reports from Dakar
22 February 2012 Last updated at 14:20 GMT Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-west Somalia. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that about 50 vehicles, including some 20 tanks, had entered Baidoa city. The BBC’s Mohamed Dhore in the capital, Mogadishu, says Baidoa was the most important al-Shabab base after the southern city of Kismayo.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has resigned amid widespread reports of a leadership tussle between him and Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He made the announcement at a press conference in Washington DC, where he had earlier met US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. There has been ongoing tension in the Labor Party in recent weeks over the leadership.
22 February 2012 Last updated at 10:16 GMT
Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he would mount a leadership challenge and plunging the government into a new crisis. The government has sunk in popularity as Gillard and Rudd, whom she ousted in 2010, have waged a personal feud. They differ little on policy, but their battle threatens to lead to an early election and a defeat for its economic reform agenda
Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper, and French photographer Remi Ochlik
Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper, and French photographer Remi Ochlik. A witness told Reuters by phone that shells hit the house where the journalists were staying and a rocket hit them as they were escaping
