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BBC News with John Jason.The Malian army backed by French forces has repelled an attack by Islamist militants in the northern city of Timbuktu. French troops pushed the m
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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.Chinese state media say rescue teams are working to free 83 miners buried by a landslide near the Tibetan capital Lhasa. More than 1,000 emer
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BBC News with Charles Carroll.Cyprus has confirmed that its banks will reopen on Thursday. They were closed to prevent a flood of withdrawals while Cyprus negotiated a ba
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BBC News with Mike Cooper.Lawyers representing two same sex couples from California have been arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court for California’s ban on same sex mar
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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.Uhuru Kenyatta who has been confirmed as the winner of Kenya’s presidential election has promised to work with all his countrymen witho
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BBC news with Mario Howget.South Africa's president Jacque Zuma has urged people not to be alarmed over Nelson Mandela's sudden admission to hospital. Mr. Mandela was t
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BBC News with Jerry Smit.Eight police officers have been arrested in Brazil after a television channel broadcast images of two teenagers being shot dead in a poor neighbo
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first-ever internationaltreatytoregulatethe multibillion-dollar arms trad
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BBC News with Charles CarrollThe former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died in London at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. Lady Thatcher transformed B
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.Pope Francis has urged the Roman Catholic Church to act with determination to tackle thesexualabuse of children in his first rem
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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.Nelson Mandela has returned to his Johannesburg residence after being discharged from hospital where he’d been treated for pneumonia fo
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday as an extraordinary leader who’d made Britai
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BBC News with Julie Candler.President Obama has described Monday’s deadly bomb attack on the Boston Marathon as a cowardly act of terror. But he said it remained un
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonald.President Obama has promised a vigorous investigation into reports that forces loyal to the Syrian leader have used chemical weapons. Speaki
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BBC News with Julie Candler.The police in Canada say they’ve foiled a major terror plot supported by al-Qaeda to derail a passenger train traveling between the citi