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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
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.The Pentagon has announced it’s sending an advanced ballisticmissiledefence system to the pacific island of Guam as aprecaution
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BBC News with Jerry Smit.The 11th century minaret of the Great Mosque in the city of Aleppo, part of a Unesco world heritage site, has been destroyed in fighting between
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BBC News with Nick Kelley.Egyptian state media say one person has been killed and at least 65 others injured during clashes in the capital Cairo after funeral prayers for
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BBC News with Nick Kelley.The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged North Korea to turn down its nuclear threats. Speaking at a news conference in Madrid
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.A $35m initiative against rape in wartime has been launched by the G8 group of industrialized countries. The money will be used to document
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BBC News with Charles Carroll.An earthquake close to the Iranian city of Bushehr where Iran has its only nuclear power station has killed at least 32 people and injured m
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BBC News with Neil Nunes.President Obama has paid tribute to the people of Boston at a memorial service for victims of the bomb attacks at the city's marathon on Monday.
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BBC News with Jerry Smit.Militants belonging to the Islamist group al-Shabab have carried out the most serious assault in the Somali capital Mogadishu since they were for
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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.Police say at least two people have been killed and 23 injured in two powerful explosions right by the finishing line of the Boston Marathon.
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BBC News with Nick Kelley.Activists in Syria have detailed what they are calling two massacres by government forces and Alawite militia. The Activists say they've docume
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BBC News with Julie Candler.The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the deadly bombing of a Turkish border town on Saturday was intended to drag his country
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BBC News with Jerry Smit.Turkish riot police have fired teargas to disperse crowds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators who gathered in Taksim Square in central
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.The Indian government says more than 550 people are known to have been killed in flooding and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rain in the far