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BBC News with Jonathan IzardFighting in Syria appears to be moving closer to the center of the capital Damascus. In the past two days, there have been clashes between gov
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BBC News with Iain PurdonTop executives of the banking giant, HSBC, have appeared before a US Senate committee and apologized for the bank's failure to prevent money lau
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BBC news with Jerry Smit.Football's governing body FIFA has released documents saying its former president Joao Havelange and his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira rece
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BBC News with Stewart MacintoshSyria state television has reported that three senior figures in President Assad's government have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in
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BBC News with Stewart MacintoshWith fighting intensifying in the Syrian capital Damascus, the latest diplomatic effort to strengthen United Nations sanctions against Pres
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BBC news with Nick Kelly.President Obama and his rival Mitt Romney have cancelled events in their election campaign because of the mass killing at a cinema in the state o
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BBC News with Nick KellyBomb disposal experts in the American state of Colorado have carried out a controlled explosion at thebooby-trappedapartment of t
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BBC News with Jerry SmitUS President Barack Obama has warned that the Syrian President Bashar Assad will be making a tragic mistake if he would use thestockpile
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed outrage at the latest reported mass killing in Syria and said any failure by the international
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BBC news with Julie Candler.The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games is underway in London. The event masterminded by the Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle is
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BBC News with Julie CandlerChinese state media say the wife of thedisgracedpolitician BXL has been charged with the murder of a British businessman. The
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BBC news with Nick Kelly.Several districts of Syria's biggest city Allepo have come under heavy bombardment. An armed rebel says the government offensive toflush
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BBC News with Julie CandlerThe international envoy to Syria Kofi Annan is toquithis role as mediator on behalf of the United Nations and the Arab League
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BBC News with Julie CandlerThe American swimmer Michael Phelps has become the most decorated Olympian in history. He won gold as part of the United States 4×200m fr
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BBC news with Sue Montgomery.Libya's interim government is about to hand power to the new General National Congress which was formed after last month's elections, a sig