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BBC News with David AustinThe top police commander in northern Afghanistan has been killed in a bomb attack. The Taliban says it carried out the attack, making him the mo
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BBC News with David AustinGovernment officials in Yemen say President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains in hospital after being injured in the attack on his compound in the capi
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BBC News with Nick KellyNato has acknowledged that one of its weapons in the Libyan capital Tripoli may not have hit the intended target and would have caused a number of
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BBC News with David AustinThere are conflicting reports about the future of the Syrian ambassador to France, Lamia Chakkour. The French television channel France24 carrie
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BBC News with Jonathan IzardSyrian troops and tanks have moved into areas along the border with Turkey, where thousands of people had taken refuge from the campaign again
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldThe Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term in power and has promised to work with his rivals on a new constitution.
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BBC News with Nick KellyReports from Syria say at least 12 people have been killed in the latest protests calling for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad. Tens of th
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BBC News with David AustinChina's best-known contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has been released after more than two months in police detention. Chinese state media said he
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe Fifa president Sepp Blatter has denied that world football is in crisis.At a news conference in Zurich, heacknowledged th
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BBC News with Jonathan WheatleyThe governing body of world football, Fifa, hassuspended two executive committee members over allegations of bribery. Fifa
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BBC News with David AustinGerman officials now say they believe locally grown bean sprouts are the most likely source of the E.coli bug, which has killed 22 people and in
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldThe authorities in Syria have been struggling tocontaina new wave of anti-government demonstrations across the country. Oppo
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BBC News with Nick KellyState televisionin Yemen has broadcast a brief message from President Ali Abdullah Saleh more than six hours after he was injured
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsSyrian state television is reporting the deaths of at least 120 security personnel in a series of battles with hundreds of gunmen in the north
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BBC News, this is Mike Cooper.The head of al-Qaeda in East Africa, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, has been killed. Somalia's transitional government said DNA tests confirmed h