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BBC News with Neil NunesLeaders of the bitterly divided American Congress are making last-minute attempts to stop significant new spending cuts and tax rises automaticall
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe senior Democrat in Congress Harry Reid says the United State seems to be heading for the financial crisis known as the fiscal cliff unless po
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe outgoing Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, appointed last year to prevent Italy coming to the Eurozone debt crisis will head an alliance of
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BBC news with Jonathan Izard.The male companion of a female student gang-raped and murdered on a bus in the Indian capital Delhi last month has given a detailed account o
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BBC news with Marion Marshall.Police in India have charged five men with the rape and murder of a woman on a bus in Delhi last month in an attack that sparked a national
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BBC News, I am John Shay.At least 60 people have been killed and many more injured in a crush after a New Year Eve fireworks display in Ivory Coast. Officials say most of
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BBC news with Jonathan Izard.In his first live national address since June, president Bashar al-Assad of Syria has again condemned the opposition as foreign terrorists wh
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BBC News with Iain PurdonPresident Obama has named the former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his choice for America’s new defense secretary. But he may face a ba
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BBC News with Marion MarshallPakistani government officials said they released another eight senior members of the Afghan Taliban, all are ex-government ministers or prov
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BBC News with Nick KellyAn aircraft charged by the Indian government is flying home of the body of a young woman who died following a gang-rape in Delhi early this month
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe highest court in Venezuela has backed a decision by the country’s National Assembly to allow an indefinite delay in the inauguration of
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BBC news with Jonathan Izard.Venezuela's National Assembly has been meeting to elect a possible stand-in for President Hugo Chavez who's struggling to recover from canc
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The French president Francois Hollande says he will strengthen security inside France against possible retaliation by Islamist groups to Fre
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency session to discuss the conflict in Mali. Before the meeting, France said it was s
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsActivists and officials in Syria say more than 80 people have been killed in a huge explosion at the University of Aleppo as students were sit