A new report says more civilians were killed in Gaza than Israel admits An Israeli human rights group says many more Palestinian civilians were killed in the Israeli military's campaign in Gaza than the army admits. B'Tselem said detailed research w...
Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco Mr Jobs was greeted with cheers and applause when he took to the stage Apple boss Steve Jobs stole the show at an event to launch new products as he took to the stage for the first time in nearly a year f...
The US economic outlook has become cautiously （谨慎的） optimistic, according to the latest issue of the Federal Reserve's influential Beige Book. Five of the 12 districts surveyed said there were signs of improvement, with five showing signs of st...
President Barack Obama has said he intends to get something done this year on healthcare reform. In an interview for ABC News ahead of his key speech to Congress, he said he was open to new ideas and would not be rigid or ideological. Mr Obama said...
The television blares Chinese-language programmes across supermarket shelves stacked with noodles, bottles of bleach and bags of rice. Outside, in Dili's dusty commercial district（商业区）, the afternoon heat hangs limp and heavy. Loh Bee Choon sit...
Australian police have launched a war crimes investigation into the deaths in East Timor in 1975 of the Balibo Five group of journalists. In 2007, an Australian coroner(验尸官) found that they were executed by Indonesian special forces in the town o...
A UK journalist abducted in Afghanistan has been freed by Nato troops in a dramatic pre-dawn raid. New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was kidnapped on Saturday along with Afghan interpreter Sultan Munadi while investigating a Nato air strike. M...
Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes flying from London to America with home-made liquid（液体） bombs. A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Ass...
At least 90 people have been killed after a Nato air strike blew up two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, officials say. Nato confirmed(确认) to the BBC that an air strike happened in Kunduz province on the main road to B...
Rescuers in Indonesia are searching the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors after a powerful earthquake, with the toll expected to rise. At least 44 people are confirmed dead and thousands of homes ruined after the 7.0-magnitude quake hit on...
Poppy cultivation(栽培) and production in Afghanistan has decreased sharply, according to a United Nations report. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says opium（鸦片） cultivation has dropped by 22% in a year and production by 10%. The biggest falls...
A day of commemorations has begun in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The first ceremony took place at dawn on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, where a German ba...
General Stanley McChrystal will liken the US military to a bull charging at a matador [the Taliban] - slightly weakened with each cut it receives. His review is also expected to say that protecting the Afghan people against the Taliban must be the t...
A man and his wife have denied abducting California woman Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was a child and holding her in their home for 18 years. Phillip and Nancy Garrido denied 29 charges including kidnap, rape and false imprisonment （监禁） when th...
The reunions, begun in 2000, were shelved amid worsening relations, but talks on the issue resumed this week. Several hundred families split by the 1950-53 Korean War will be able to meet for several days from late September, the joint North-South s...
