Both Houses of Parliament in Nigeria have voted to transfer power from the country's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to his deputy Goodluck Jonathan. There's been a power vacuum in Nigeria since November, when the president left for medical treatment...
Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray has been charged by the authorities in Los Angeles with involuntary manslaughter. Dr Conrad Murray was accused of acting unlawfully but without malice. Hes due to appear in court shortly, his lawyer said he woul...
Exit polls in Ukraine suggest that the presidential election has been won by the pro-Moscow candidate Viktor Yanukovych. The unofficial polls indicate that Mr Yanukovych defeated his rival, the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, by three to six percent...
'Welcome to the Internet banking support service. To reset your security details please press 1. For all other enquiries press 2.' Banking by telephone is hardly new. But it's not so much old-fashioned phones that have caused the banks problems as co...
The British defence company BAE Systems is to pay a fine of 400 million dollars to the United States government for misleading it over arms deals. It was accused of breaching undertakings it gave to the US over payments to a Saudi official as part of...
Ten American missionaries have been charged with kidnapping in Haiti, after they tried to take a group of Haitian children out of the country. The Baptist missionaries were arrested last week at the border with Dominican Republic. Nick Davis reports...
Bamboo Clothing THE HOST: Now, bamboo until recently was something you made furniture out of or watched a panda bear chewing into for a snack. But now this solid substance is being re-cast as a fabric for the future. Silky feeling, softer than cotton...
The Defence Department in Washington has announced a review of how to lift a ban on openly homosexual people serving in the US military. The Obama administration says the current policy is harming military effectiveness by driving key personnel out o...
President Obama has presented Congress with his budget proposals for 2011, saying the United States must learn to live within its means. He said the country could not go on spending as if its deficits and waste didn't matter. Mr. Obama said America f...
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has told African leaders that he's outraged by the use of rape as a weapon of war. He said he was appointing a special representative to intensify efforts to stop sexual violence against women and chil...
