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BBC News with Marion MarshallThere's a tense politicalstandoffin Ivory Coast after two rival presidential swearing-in ceremonies took place within hours
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BBC News with Marion MarshallLegal authorities havestepped upthe pressure on the founder of the website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, whose publication of s
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How Healthy is a Potato-only Diet?只吃土豆的减肥法有多健康?Can a diet of eating only potatoes for 60 days be good f
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BBC News with Kathy ClugstonPresident Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, is critically ill in Washington. Mr Holbrooke, who's 69, und
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BBC News with Zoe DiamondPresident Obama has invited Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress to the White House in the wake of mid-term elections in which he lost h
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BBC News with Zoe DiamondOfficials in Pakistan say at least 59 people have been killed in attacks at mosques in the northwest of the country. In the second attack, a gren
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BBC News with Nick KellyThe newly re-elected Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has re-appointed the Shia leader Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister. The move is part of a powe
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BBC News, this is Mike Cooper.Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her supporters not to give up hope. She told them she would need h
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BBC News with Jonathan IzardThe American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has defended US military operations in Afghanistan. She was responding to criticism from the A
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BBC News with Kathy ClugstonThe former South African leader Thabo Mbeki has spent a day in Ivory Coast meeting the two men who are claiming to have won the country's pre
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BBC News with Marion MarshallA wave of bomb explosions across Baghdad have killed at least 63 people and injured up to 300 others. The blasts took place on Tuesday evenin
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BBC News with Marion MarshallPresident Obama is about to sign into law an extension of his predecessor's tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest Americans.Mr Oba
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BBC News with Jonathan WheatleyA record ransom has been paid to Somali pirates in exchange for a South Korean tanker. About $9m was paid for the Samho Dream, which was se
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe second in line to the British throne Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have spoken openly of their plans to marry hours af
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BBC News with David LeggePeople in Burma have voted in the country's first general election for two decades amid reports of low turnout and irregularities. Two large par