Nepal is preparing for months of political instability after the
government failed to meet a deadline to agree a new post-war
constitution.
Date Published: May 28, 2012 - 2:02 am
Tropical Storm Beryl has gained strength as it closes in on the
southeastern US coast, dumping rain and whipping up heavy surf from
northeastern Florida to South Carolina.
Date Published: May 28, 2012 - 2:02 am
Barack Obama is anchoring his re-election campaign around attacks
on Mitt Romney's business record, but the hardball strategy also
risks tarnishing the president's own political brand.
Date Published: May 28, 2012 - 2:02 am
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out soon whether he can
be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands
down its judgement.
Date Published: May 28, 2012 - 12:42 am
Colombian guerrilla group Farc has said it will free a French
journalist taken prisoner nearly a month ago.
Date Published: May 28, 2012 - 12:43 am
The Security Council has met to discuss the recent massacre in
Houla, which the UN has blamed on the Syrian government, but
Damascus and Moscow suggested was due to a rebel attack.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 2:38 pm
Tens of thousands have protested against Saakashvili's government
in Georgia in the last anti-government demonstration in years.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 2:07 pm
Pakistani rescuers have recovered the first bodies from the site of
an avalanche that buried 140 people at an army camp.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 2:07 pm
A rally car has gone out of control on a rural Irish road, crashed
into a crowd of spectators killing two and seriously injuring
seven.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 2:07 pm
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has defended the Obama
administration's plans to wind down the more than decade-long war
in Afghanistan.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 10:27 am
A total of 16 people have been seriously injured when fire swept
through a seven-storey apartment building in Paris, officials say.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 1:37 pm
More than 13 000 people have been killed in Syria since an
anti-regime revolt broke out in March 2011, Rami Abdel Rahman of
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 8:12 am
Eight members of an Afghan family have been killed in a Nato
airstrike in the eastern province of Paktia, an Afghan official has
said.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 6:03 am
A baby was born on a patrol boat shortly after a group of 136
migrants were rescued off Malta.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 6:06 am
Syria has denied it was behind attack that killed 90 people and was
one of the bloodiest single events in Syria's uprising.
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 4:54 am