2010-03-19 BBC BBC News with David Austin President Obama is postponing a trip to Indonesia and Australia, so he can stay in Washington to try to get his health care reforms passed by Congress. Mr Obama had already delayed the long-arranged trip once...

2010-03-18 BBC BBC news with Zoe Diamond. The acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved the government. The announcement comes a month after he assumed the executive powers because of the long illness of President Umaru Yar'Adua. Pe...

2010-03-17 BBC BBC News with Nick Kelly. The United States and the United Nations are urging Israel and Palestinians to resume peace talks after a day of unrest in Jerusalem. The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington wanted to i...

2010-03-16 BBC BBC News with Nick Kelly Reports in Israeli media say Israel's ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Israeli diplomats that American-Israeli relations were facing a crisis of historic proportions. Washington is furious at l...

2010-03-15 BBC BBC News with Michael Powles The United States has authorized the departure of government dependents from Mexican border cities, following fatal attacks by suspected drug traffickers on consular staff. In two separate incidents, one of...

2010-03-12 BBC BBC News with Zoe Diamond. Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Sweden after the Swedish parliament narrowly voted to describe the mass killing of Armenians by Turkish forces during the First World War as genocide. Turkey's Prime Mini...

2010-03-11 BBC BBC News with David Austin. A United Nations report says up to half the food aid in Somalia is routinely diverted to corrupt contractors, Islamist militants and local UN workers. Bob Replate in New York has more. The report says up to...

2010-03-10 BBC BBC News with Roy Larmour The United States has condemned Israel's plan to allow another 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers to be built in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli announcement came as the US Vice President Joe Biden was visiting...

2010-03-08 BBC BBC News with Mary Small. The acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has placed the security forces in the center of the country on full alert following a fresh wave of sectarian violence near the city of Jos. Witnesses say they...

2010-03-06 BBC BBC News with Ally Macue. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed the austerity measures taken by Greece to solve its financial crisis. Flanked by the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou after talks in Berlin, Mrs Merkel sa...