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BBC News with Iain PurdonWith a deadline for resolving the United States debt crisis just three days away, there's intense debate in the Senate over a Democrat-backed pl
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BBC News with Iain PurdonOne week after 77 people in Norway were killed in a bomb attack and a mass shooting, the first funerals and memorial services for the victims hav
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BBC News with Iain PurdonPresident Obama has said he's horrified at what he called the Syrian government's "brutalityagainst its own people".
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsStock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply with concern that the eurozone debt crisis could spread to Italy and Spain.
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe Arab League has called on the Syrian government to immediately stop using violence against protesters, who've been demanding reforms sinc
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BBC News with David AustinThe British Prime Minister David Cameron has told parliament that riots and looting of the kind that spread across England in the last week will
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThere have been furtherdisturbances in parts of Britain after the unprecedented wave of rioting and looting that brought chao
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BBC News with David AustinThe Indian government has offered to free theveteranIndian anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare just hours after his arrest
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsThe Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose country is at the centre of fears about the economic stability of the eurozone, has said h
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe White House has called on US politicians from both parties to work together to tackle the country's fiscal and economic problems. The ap
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BBC News with Marion MarshallReports from the Syrian city of Hama say government tanks have been shelling residential neighbourhoodsindiscriminately. The
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BBC News with David AustinAt the end of avolatileweek on global stock exchanges, shares in Europe and the United States have ended the day higher. Europe
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryTaliban militants have carried out a major attack in southern Afghanistan, usingmultiplesuicide bombs, rocket-propelled grena
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldThe Texas state governor Rick Perry has confirmed he'll stand for the Republican Party nomination in the US presidential elections next year
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryRiots have broken out in London for a third consecutive day, this time in broad daylight. Central Hackney, in the east, was cordoned off as yo