2010-06-16 BBC BBC News with David Austin An inquiry into the events, known as Bloody Sunday when 13 civilians were shot dead by British soldiers in Londonderry in Northern Ireland in 1972, has found that what happened was unjustified and unjustifiab...

2010-06-15 BBC BBC News with David Austin The International Red Cross says there are about 15,000 ethnic Uzbeks fleeing violence in Kyrgyzstan massed at the Uzbek border. Some 80,000 have already fled to Uzbekistan since last week when ethnic clashes...

2010-06-14 BBC BBC News with Zoe Diamond. Russian officials say Moscow has sent extra troops to Kyrgyzstan as ethnic violence in the south of the country worsens. They said the troops would guard a military base in the north. The Kyrgyz government ha...

2010-06-13 BBC BBC News with Marian Marshall. The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has granted shoot-to-kill powers to its security forces in an effort to stop ethnic fighting in which nearly 80 people have died with almost 1,000 wounded. Thousands o...

2010-06-12 BBC BBC News with Julie Candler. The 2010 Football World Cup has begun in South Africa with the host nation playing an exciting and entertaining opening game against Mexico which ended in a one-all draw. South Africa scored the tournament'...

2010-06-11 BBC BBC News with David Austin. Drug enforcement officers in the United States said they have arrested more than 2,000 people in a lengthy investigation targeting Mexican trafficking rings. They said the joint operation also involving the...

2010-06-10 BBC BBC News with Sue Montgomery. The United Nations Security Council has adopted new sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear activities. Twelve members voted in favour of the sanctions which include tougher financial and travel rest...

BBC news 2010-06-08 BBC News with Marian Marshall. Germany is making the biggest cuts in government spending for more than half a century to reduce the country's debts. The Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany needed to set a good example to other E...

2010-06-09 BBC BBC News with David Austin. The authorities in the West African state of Gambia have seized cocaine which could have been sold for more than a billion dollars in Europe. Up to two and a half tons of cocaine were discovered in a warehou...

2010-06-07 BBC BBC News with Marian Marshall. Israel has rejected a proposal by the United Nations to set up an international investigation into Israeli commando raid on aid ships bound for Gaza last week. Nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed i...