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BBC News with Jerry SmitThe UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to approve an expanded monitoring mission to Syria. He was speaking after the
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BBC News with Nick KellyA passenger plane has crashed in Pakistan, close to the capital Islamabad, killing all 127 people on board. It was attempting to land in a thunder
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe mediatycoonRupert Murdoch has told a British inquiry into media ethics that he's never asked a prime minister for anything.
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BBC News with Julie CandlerThe United Nations Security Council has voted todeployup to a further 300 unarmed military observers in Syria. They'll spend
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BBC News with Julie CandlerA United Nations-backed court has found the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, guilty of aiding andabettingcrimes ag
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BBC News with Kathy ClugstonThe Lebanese navy haveintercepteda ship with three containers full of weapons and ammunition intended to supply Syrian rebels
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The man accused ofmastermindingthe 9/11 attacks on United States has refused to respond to questions at a militant tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon has
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BBC News with Jerry SmitThe head of the United Nations observer team for Syria have arrived there to take charge of the advance deployment. The Norwegian general, Robert
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BBC News with Nick KellyThe Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected president of France, defeating theincumbentNicolas Sarkozy. He told a crowd in h
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryDocuments seized from Osama bin Laden'shideouta year ago appear to show that the head of al-Qaeda had become frustrated with
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BBC news with Jerry SmitPresident Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan has given the most detailed explanation so far of America's use of drone attacks to
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BBC News with Neil NunesPresident Obama is making a surprise visit to Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the death of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He has sig
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe two contenders in the French presidential election are taking part in a televised debate. Polls suggest President Nicolas Sarkozy is
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe security forces in Egypt have finally dispersed thousands of demonstrators after hours of clashes near the defence ministry in Cairo. A ni
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BBC News with Julie CandlerThe latest results from the first round of the French presidential election show that the Socialist Party challenger Francois Hollande will fac