BBC news 2010-07-25 BBC News with Zoe Diamond. At least 15 people have been crushed to death in Germany at a techno music festival known as the Love Parade. One hundred others were injured, 45 of them seriously. Up to one million people have been att...

BBC news 2010-07-24 BBC News with Fiona MacDonald European Union officials say just seven of 91 European banks have failed test of their financial strength. The checks were designed to see if individual banks needed to raise capital against future lo...

2010-07-23 BBC BBC News with Gaenor Howells. Venezuela has ordered Colombian diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours. The Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez had earlier announced he was breaking off relations over accusations that his government...

2010-07-22 BBC BBC News with David Legge The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has travelled to Chad to attend a summit of regional leaders, defying two warrants for his arrest issued by the International Criminal Court. A court spokesman told the BB...

2010-07-21 BBC BBC News with David Austin. The leaders of Britain and the United States have spent nearly three hours in talks in Washington. President Obama said they saw virtually eye to eye on every major challenge before them. The British Prime M...

2010-07-20 BBC BBC News with Jim Lee. Researchers say a medicinal gel being tested in South Africa has almost halved the risk of women being infected with HIV when routinely use before sex. The World Health Organization and the UN AIDS agency called...

2010-07-19 BBC BBC News with Marian Marshall The oil company BP says it's increasingly hopeful that the new cap on its stricken well in the Gulf of Mexico can be used to block the flow of oil completely until the leak is permanently sealed. The compa...

2010-07-18 BBC BBC News with Marian Marshall. The oil company BP says it'll continue to monitor the cap it's put on the stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier, BP's senior vice president Kent Wells gave a cautiously optimistic assessment of...

2010-07-17 BBC BBC News with David Austin. President Barack Obama has welcomed BP's success in stopping the flow of oil from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. He emphasized that whatever the next move was, it would be governed by science and th...

2010-07-16 BBC BBC News with Jim Lee. The oil company BP says it has for the first time stopped the torrent of oil that's been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for the past three months. A BP Vice President Kent Wells said a new 75-ton cap had cut off...