2010-06-26 BBC BBC News with David Legge. President Obama has said a sweeping overhaul of the rules governing the United States banking industry will make Wall Street more accountable to the American people. The banking reform bill was finalized by c...

2010-06-25 BBC BBC news with Kathy Clugston. President Obama and the Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev have held wide-ranging talks in Washington during Mr Medvedevs first visit to the United States. Mr Obama described the Russian president as a solid a...

2010-06-24 BBC BBC News with Jonathan Izard. The American commander of the multinational forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has been sacked. President Obama accepted what he termed his resignation with regret, but said derogatory rema...

BBC news 2010-06-23 BBC News with David Austin. The White House has refused to say that America's top military commander in Afghanistan is safe in his job after he and his aides made derogatory remarks about President Obama's administration. The rema...

2010-06-22 BBC BBC News with Sue Montgomery. The man appointed to run a 20-billion-dollar fund in the United States to compensate those affected by huge amounts of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico has said he's determined to speed up the payment o...

2010-06-21 BBC BBC News with Michael Powles. Israel has released details of how it proposes to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying all civilian goods will now be allowed in. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the current syste...

2010-06-20 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells. President Obama has welcomed the announcement by the Chinese central bank that it's to gradually allow the exchange rate of its currency, the yuan, to become more flexible. Mr Obama called it a constructiv...

2010-06-19 BBC BBC News with Fiona MacDonald. United Nations says as many as a million people may now be in need of basic aid in Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring Uzbekistan after last week's ethnic violence, most of it in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh....

2010-06-18 BBC BBC News with Fiona McDonald. The chief executive of the oil company BP Tony Hayward has come under ferocious criticism before a US congressional hearing held to examine the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr Hayward called the situat...

2010-06-17 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells. President Obama says the British oil giant BP has agreed to create a 20-billion-dollar fund to compensate all those affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Speaking after a meeting with top BP officials,...