2010-07-06 BBC BBC News with Jonathan Izard. The Middle East envoy Tony Blair has told the BBC that he believes the International outcry which followed Israel's raid on aid flotilla at the end of May persuaded it to accelerate the substantial easing...

2010-07-05 BBC BBC News with David Austin. The candidate of Polands governing party, Bronislaw Komorowski, has won the countrys presidential election. Exit polls immediately after the voting gave him a small but clear lead over the opposition leader,...

2010-07-04 BBC BBC News with Sue Montgomery. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has told a summit of West African leaders that his country is determined to increase its unity with Africa. President Lula is on his last visit to the continen...

2010-07-03 BBC BBC News with Michael Powles. Prosecutors in the United States say two suspects in an alleged Russian spy ring have admitted they are Russian citizens living in America under false identities. They said the defendants, known as Michael...

2010-07-02 BBC BBC News with Zoe Diamond. Police in Pakistan say suicide bombers have killed at least 35 people at a shrine in the city of Lahore. More than 170 others are thought to have been wounded. Its not clear who carried out the attack. Aleem...

2010-07-01 BBC BBC News with Iain Purdon. After months of negotiations, an agreement has been reached by European Union national governments and the parliament in Brussels on new ways, new rules covering the way bonuses are awarded in the banking ind...

2010-06-30 BBC BBC News with Marian Marshall The man chosen by President Obama to take charge of the American military effort in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has warned of an escalation of violence in the coming months. He told his Senate con...

2010-06-29 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells. Ten people have been arrested in the United States on suspicion of spying for Russia. The Justice Department said theyd been detained in raids on Sunday. An official statement said eight of those detained...

2010-06-28 BBC BBC News with David Austin. Pope Benedict has intervened directly in a row over police raids on Roman Catholic Church properties in Belgium on Thursday. The raids were part of an investigation into child sex abuse. The Pope called the...

2010-06-27 BBC BBC News with Nick Kelly. The leaders of the world's eight most powerful nations have sharply criticized North Korea and Iran. They condemned North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March and called on the Iranian lead...