The Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has refused to admit defeat after his political opponents dissolved parliament and demanded his resignation. Latest reports from the capital Bishkek say there was heavy shooting as night fell. From Bishkek,...
Theres been a day of bloodshed and turmoil in Kyrgyzstan with the opposition saying it set up an interim government. However it is still not clear who is in control or where President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is. Rayham Demytrie sent out this report from th...
Somali Pirates Take Hostages 索马里海盗扣押人质 You might have been forgiven for thinking that piracy on the high seas was the stuff of Hollywood movies or historical novels, but Somali pirates have made 92 attacks this year, resulting in 36...
The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided that the British general election will take place on 6 May. Mr Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament, and then ma...
Tribal elders in the Afghan city of Kandahar have sharply criticized the country's President Hamid Karzai over issues of security and corruption. On a rare visit to the region, Mr Karzai was told that few dared to join the Afghan National Army becaus...
Senior Irish Catholican Protestant clergymen have criticized the head of the worldwide Anglican communion for saying that Catholic church in Ireland had lost all credibility over the child abuse scandal. The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Mar...
Pope Benedict's personal preacher has compared criticism of the Pope over the way the Church has dealt with sex abuse allegations to what he called the collective violence suffered by the Jews. In his Good Friday sermon in St Peter's Basilica in Rome...
Most of the main opposition parties in Sudan are withdrawing from all the elections this month - the first multi-party elections since 1986. They won't take part because of concerns about fraud and security. On Wednesday, the presidential candidate f...
Scientists to the world's largest particle accelerator have successfully collided beams of protons at the highest energy levels ever seen. There was cheering in the control room at CERN, the European nuclear research center in Switzerland as one of t...
The International Criminal Court has authorized its prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to investigate the violence that followed Kenya's last general election. Mr Moreno-Ocampo said the decision meant there would be no impunity for the perpetrators. Kenya...
