2010-05-25 BBC BBC News with Jim Lee. Police in Jamaica have begun an operation to take control of the headquarters of the alleged drug dealer Christopher Dudus Coke, at the centre of the recent unrest in the capital Kingston. As the violence continu...

2010-05-24 BBC BBC News with Ian Purdon. The US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has sharply criticised the oil company BP for its handling of the huge oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Speaking after a visit to BP's American headquarters in Houston, Mr...

2010-05-23 BBC BBC News with Nick Kelly. British cabinet ministers who are visiting Kabul have played down differences that had appeared to be growing between the Foreign Secretary William Hague and the Defense Secretary Liam Fox over the future Brit...

2010-05-22 BBC BBC News with Iain Purdon. European Union finance ministers have accepted the need for sanctions against EU countries which run up too much debt. At a meeting in Brussels on how to tackle the current financial crisis caused by large st...

2010-05-21 BBC BBC News with David Legge. Scientists in the United States say they've developed the world's first synthetic organism. Supporters say this marks the beginning of a new industrial revolution. Critics say scientists are playing God. Pall...

2010-05-20 BBC BBC News with Jonathan Izard. A curfew is in place across nearly a third of Thailand's provinces after an army push that cleared thousands of anti-government protesters from central Bangkok prompted unrest elsewhere. Demonstrators repo...

2010-05-19 BBC BBC News with Julie Candler. The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States, Russia and China have agreed a draft UN resolution for further sanctions against Iran. She said the draft resolution could be quick-ci...

2010-05-18 BBC BBC News with David Austin. There's been a cautious international response to the announcement by Iran that it percents some of its low enriched uranium abroad in return for higher-grade nuclear fuel for a research reactor. Tehran hope...

2010-05-17 BBC BBC News with Jonathan Wheatley. The oil company BP says it has finally been successful in siphoning oil from a burst pipe on the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico. A BP spokesman said that so far the system was working very well but added...

2010-05-16 BBC BBC News with Michael Powles. The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva has said military action will continue against escalating anti-government protests, because it's the only way to restore peace. At least 22 people have been...