2010-05-15 BBC BBC News with Sue Montgomery. President Barack Obama has angrily accused oil companies of trying to duck the blame over the Gulf of Mexico oil slick and said he would act to change the relationship between the industry and regulators....

2010-05-14 BBC BBC news with Marian Marshall. The oil company BP has revealed that the cost of tackling the oil spill from a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico has risen dramatically. It now stands at $450m, but it is still rising fast. Jannat Jalil r...

2010-05-13 BBC BBC News with KathyClugston Britains new Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg are insisting that their recently formed coalition, Britains first in decades,is strong and will last. At a good humored news conference, p...

2010-05-12 BBC BBC News with Iain Purdon. The leader of the British Conservative Party, David Cameron has been appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth five days after the inconclusive election. The election resulted in the Conservatives winning t...

2010-05-11 BBC BBC News with Iain Purdon. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that he intends to stand down as leader of the Labour Party within months. Mr Brown said he had no desire to stay in his post longer than was needed to fo...

2010-05-10 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells The United States Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Pakistani Taliban were behind the attempted car bombing in Times Square in New York last week. He said the US had evidence that the militant group...

2010-05-09 BBC BBC news with David Legge. President Sarkozy of France and the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have cancelled visits to Moscow on Sunday to work instead on plans to stop the Greek debt crisis spreading to other countries using...

2010-05-08 BBC BBC News with David Austin. The leaders of two of Britains main parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, are discussing whether they can form a coalition government, following Thursday's inconclusive general election. The...

2010-05-07 BBC BBC News with Julie Candler. Voting has just finished in the British general election and an exit poll released in the last few moments indicates that the Conservatives will win but will not have an overall majority in parliament. Repo...

2010-05-05 BBC BBC News with Jonathan Izard An American of Pakistani origin, Faisal Shahzad has been charged with involvement in the failed car bomb attack in Times Square in New York City on Saturday. Mr. Shahzad was charged on five counts, one of w...