2010-06-06 BBC BBC News with Kathy Clugston. An Irish-owned ship that was trying to break through the Israeli blockade of Gaza has been diverted to the Port of Ashdod. Israeli forces who boarded it about 30 kilometres off the coast said they faced no...

2010-06-04 BBC BBC News with Zoe Diamond. The oil company BP says it has succeeded in cutting through a ruptured underwater pipe in its latest attempt to stem the huge oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will now lower a containment cap to the...

2010-06-02 BBC BBC News with David Legge. There is growing diplomatic pressure on Israel after its commandos storm ships trying to break its blockade of Gaza. NATO condemned the loss of lives in the assault in which at least nine pro-Palestinian acti...

2010-06-01 BBC BBC News with Victoria Meakin. The UN Security Council has been holding an emergency session to discuss the Israeli attack on ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists, trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. At least nine activ...

2010-05-31 BBC BBC News with Julie Candler. A day after the oil company BP failed to seal an underwater oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the White House has given a somber assessment of the likely outcome. President Obama's adviser on energy Carol Bro...

2010-05-30 BBC BBC News with David Austin. A senior member of Britain's new coalition government David Laws has resigned after it was revealed that he'd claimed tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayers' money to pay rents to his long-term gay partne...

2010-05-29 BBC BBC News with David Austin In a bid to answer recent criticism, President Obama is paying a second visit to Louisiana to supervise the clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. He is expected to spend two hours in the area. The spill n...

2010-05-28 BBC BBC News with Michael Polls. President Obama has announced a shake-up of the offshore oil industry after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. He's halted exploratory deep water drilling for another six months, and suspended test drilling on 3...

2010-05-27 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells The oil company BP says it's started a critical attempt to plug the damaged well that's been leaking huge amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The operation has never been tried before. Rajesh Mirchandan...

2010-05-26 BBC BBC News with Jim Lee. North Korea has announced it's cutting off all relations with South Korea. The decision comes after sharply increased tension between the two countries following the sinking of a South Korean navy ship in March....