More BBC news headlines (they don't always appear on the home page so you have to go looking)
Protests at opencast mine launchOpponents of an opencast mining scheme in Merthyr Tydfil have staged a protest as the scheme was finally launched. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7084806.stm Gas leak kills 29 Chinese minersAt least 29 miners have been killed in a gas leak at a colliery in south-west China's Guizhou province, state media has reported.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7086284.stm
my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by