The Los Angeles Fire Department says a blaze at the Universal Studios in Hollywood has now been contained but not extinguished. At the height of the fire, which broke out before dawn, more than 400 firefighters tackled the flames which destroyed a Ki...
The Rumored Demise of President Mubarak of Egypt-埃及总统穆巴拉克病危谣言 埃及四大报纸编辑因涉嫌诽谤胡斯尼穆巴拉克总统而被宣判入狱，其中一位，亚伯拉罕伊萨将面临第二次审讯。这一次他被指控...
Anarchy Looms in Pakistan-巴基斯坦政治动荡 巴基斯坦前总理纳瓦兹谢里夫在流亡海外七年后终于得以在上周一重返家园，但不幸又在同一天又被驱逐至沙特阿拉伯。另一位前总理贝娜齐尔布托接到...
The Dream of Palestinian Refugees-巴勒斯坦难民的梦想 兵营的难民营在那些自称法塔赫伊斯兰的人的控制下已有两个月了，那里离的黎波里以北仅有几公里而已。这场战争导致了黎巴嫩局势的日益紧张...
Negotiators from China and Taiwan are today resuming formal talks that were suspended almost ten years ago. The meeting in Beijing comes less than a month after Taiwan's new president Ma Ying-Jeou was inaugurated. The talks are expected to result in...
Days after a rout in Britain over top secret intelligence files left on a train, it has emerged more confidential papers were lost on the same day. Earlier this week, a classified file was handed to the BBC containing intelligence assessments about A...
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has increased his lead over his main rival in the presidential election. After results from a third of polling stations, President Karzai has 46% of the vote, comfortably ahead of his main opponent Abdullah Abdul...
The man almost certain to be Japans next Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama says his partys apparent landslide-victory in the general election was due to public anger with politics during a crippling economic recession. The exit polls suggested the Democr...
The anti-corruption commission in Nigeria has filed criminal charges against four former executives of banks that are to be rescued to prevent the countrys financial system collapsing. From Lagos, here is Caroline Duffield. A sight Nigerians never th...
Leaders from Poland, Russia and Germany have commemorated the anniversary of the start of the Second World War with a series of ceremonies in the Polish city of Gdansk. The first shots were fired there 70 years ago. Johnny Diamond was in Gdansk and w...
