2010-05-04 BBC BBC News with Michael Powles The giant British oil company BP says it will pay to clean up the huge oil slick threat in Americas Gulf Coast. But it insists its not to blame for causing the spillage. BPs Chief Executive Tony Hayward sai...

2010-05-03 BBC BBC News with Michael Powles President Obama has said the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a potentially unprecedented environmental disaster. And the British company BP will have to meet the cost of dealing with it. Mr Obama sa...

2010-05-01 BBC BBC News. This is Mike Cooper. A huge oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is washing a shore in the American state of Louisiana as a massive operation to contain the spill got this place. Strong winds are pushing the oil over boom set up t...

2010-04-30 BBC BBC News with Iain Purdon The Obama administration has designated the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an event of national significance, a move which allows it to draw on resources from across the country to deal with the le...

2010-04-28 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and could spread to other countries. Share prices in New York, L...

2010-04-27 BBC BBC News with David Legge The President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir has been declared the winner of this month's presidential election, the country's first multi-party poll for nearly a quarter of a century. In the semi-autonomous south, S...

2010-04-26 BBC BBC News with Nick Kelly. The Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, who's in Washington for talks with the IMF, says he's confident that agreement will be reached soon on giving Greece financial support to overcome its debt p...

2010-04-25 BBC BBC News with Zoe Diamond The head of the International Monetary Fund says Greece has nothing to fear from the organization. At a news conference in Washington, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the IMF was trying to provide Greece with the...

2010-04-24 BBC BBC News with Mike Cooper The International Monetary Fund and the European Commission have promised to act swiftly after Greece said it needed to activate a 60-billion-dollar rescue package agreed in principle last week. Correspondents...

2010-04-23 BBC BBC News with Zoe Diamond With two weeks to go before the British general election, the leaders of the three main political parties have held their second live televised election debate. It dealt mainly with foreign policy and was betw...