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BBC News with Marion MarshallBarack Obama has become the first American president to back same-sex marriage. In a television interview with ABC News, Mr Obama said he had
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BBC News with Nick KellyPakistan has confirmed that it intends to reopentransitroutes to Nato forces in Afghanistan closed last November following an Ame
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A US Senate committee has cut aid to Pakistan by 33 million dollars a year in response to the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIAtrack downOsama Bi
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BBC News with Jonathan IzardPalestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have agreed to end a mass hunger strike following a deal brokered by Egypt and Jordan. Sixteen hun
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan has warned that the current peace plan for Syria may be the last chance to avoid civil war. He sa
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BBC News with Julie CandlerThe former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at The Hague on war crimes charges. General Mladic, who's now 70, faces
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BBC News with Mike CooperTens of thousands of people have joined marches in Spain to mark the birth a year ago of a protest movement against economic austerity. The main
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency session in New York to discuss the killing of more than 100 civilians in the Syria
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Activists say more than 50 people have been killed and 100 wounded in fighting between government forces and rebels in Homs Province. They said 13 children were among the dead w
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BBC News with Kathy ClugstonIn one of its strongestresolutions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has authorised a UN investigation into mass killi
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BBC News with Jonathan WheatleyCrowds have gathered in central Moscow for the first big rally by the opposition since Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as president in May.
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United Nations' military observer mission in Syria major general Robert Mood has confirmed more than 90 people have been killed in the town of Houla. It's one of the bloodiest
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BBC News with Mike CooperA passenger plane has crashed in Nigeria's biggest city Lagos, killing all 150 people on board. The airliner, operated by the Indian-owned Dana
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BBC News with Zoe DiamondEgypt's biggest political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, has denounced thedissolutionof parliament by the ruling military co
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BBC News with Jonathan IzardThe UN special envoy for Syria Kofi Annan has told President Assad that Syria is at atipping pointfollowing the killing of mo