The United States has defended plans for a six-billion-dollar arms deal with Taiwan despite a warning from China of serious consequences if the sales go ahead. China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and says it will impose sanctions on American...
The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he does not regret helping the United States to remove the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Mr Blair was giving evidence at an official inquiry into the war. Madeleine Morris reports. It's been a long...
Foreign ministers from some 70 countries meeting in London have backed a new strategy they hope will bring an end to the conflict in Afghanistan. Under the plan, Afghan forces will increase to more than 300,000 by next year. A timetable for handing o...
We all like to eat well, and sometimes it's worth spending that little bit extra in order to get the best food available, but how many of us would consider spending nearly ￡2,000 (22,000 yuan) for a pig's leg? British gourmets with money to burn ar...
Saddam Hussein's right hand man, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, better known as Chemical Ali, has been executed in Iraq. Last week, he received his fourth death sentence for his most notorious acts, ordering a poison gas attack in the Kurdish village of Halab...
The two senior lawyers working for the British Foreign Office in the run-up to the Iraq war have told an official inquiry that they advised the government on a number of occasions that the invasion was illegal. The legal advisers, Sir Michael Wood an...
The government of Haiti says more than 150,000 bodies have been recovered in the capital Port-au-Prince alone since the earthquake that struck 12 days ago. Many of them have been buried in mass graves. Greg Morsbach reports. Haiti's Communications Mi...
More than 100 bodies have been found in one village alone in central Nigeria, following clashes between Christians and Muslims. And aid workers recovered the corpses in a village 30 kilometers from the city of Jos. From there, our correspondent Carol...
President Obama has put forward sweeping new rules to curb the size and risk-taking of big banks. He said banks that taxpayers safeguarded against failure should not take unnecessary risks, and he would tighten any loopholes that allowed those banks...
Justice Department officials working on how to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center have recommended that 47 of those held there should stay in prison indefinitely without trial. Adam Brooks reports. 196 people suspected of terrorism or war crim...
