An online petition(请愿书) has been launched in protest at the Gambian president's threat to kill human rights workers. President Yahya Jammeh told state TV earlier this week he would kill anybody who wanted to destabilise The Gambia. If you are affi...
Thousands of extra police are on duty in Pittsburgh Trouble has flared as world leaders gather in the US city of Pittsburgh for the G20 summit. Reports said riot police used pepper gas and fired rubber bullets at protesters on a march near the venue...
The prime minister is to tell the United Nations that he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three. Gordon Brown will make the offer at a meeting of the UN Security Council on halting the spread of nuc...
One-quarter of Japanese women are aged 65 or over, official figures indicate（指示）, highlighting fears of a looming demographic crisis in the country. According to government estimates（估计）, more than 16 million Japanese women have reached 65, t...
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has returned to his country, nearly three months after being deposed(被免职). Mr Zelaya has sought refuge（避难庇护） inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa and hundreds of his supporters have gathered ou...
It's the silly season in India-China relations. If you've tuned into one of the more hawkish Indian television channels or are reading the views of the many experts on India and China, it might seem like the two countries are at each other's throats...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai （卡尔扎伊） says he believes in the integrity of last month's election process despite allegations of vote-rigging. He said he had been surprised and rather shocked by EU observers who recently said that about a quarter...
Somali Islamists will avenge the raid in which a top al-Qaeda suspect was reportedly killed in Somalia, an al-Shabab commander has told the BBC. Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is believed to have been killed in a US military helicopter(直升机) r...
Japan's parliament is meeting to formally name Yukio Hatoyama as the next prime minister. His Democratic Party of Japan won a huge poll victory last month, ending more than 50 years of almost unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. Prime Mini...
Southern Somalia is a dangerously unpredictable place. We flew into the region, unsure what reception we could expect from the commanders of al-Shabab, the radical Islamist insurgent group, viewed by some as al-Qaeda's proxy in the Horn of Africa. Ou...
A senior pro-China figure in Hong Kong has said he will convey concerns about alleged police brutality against Hong Kong journalists to Beijing. Convenor of the Executive Council Leung Chun-ying's promise echoed the concerns of several pro-China fig...
Zimbabwe（津巴布韦） Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused the Zanu-PF party of President Robert Mugabe of persecuting his MDC group. He said Zanu-PF violated(侵犯) the law and spread the language of hate, and vowed not to let it continue. Mr...
Russian PM Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions（制裁） to curb its nuclear programme. Iran's latest proposals on its nuclear ambitions have brought diverging views from the US and Russia. Earlier...
A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced three people to up to 15 years in jail in the first trials over a recent series of syringe attacks. The court did not give the defendants' ethnicity(种族) but their names suggest they are from the Musl...
One of the highest ranking Taliban officials in Pakistan has been arrested with four other militants in the country's north-west, officials say. Muslim Khan was a key spokesman for the Taliban as well as being one of the most senior militant command...
