The campaign team of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called European Union election observers irresponsible for saying they had doubts about one quarter of the votes cast in the election. The EU said most of the suspicious votes were for Mr. Ka...
President Barack Obama has announced that he's shelving the former President Bushs plans for a missile defense system in Europe, a project that had become a major irritant in the relations between the United States and Russia. From Washington, here i...
The head of South African athletics has admitted lying when he denied the knowledge of gender tests carried out on the runner Caster Semenya before her controversial medal winning performance at the World Athletics Championships last month. The admis...
A multinational commodity trading company, Trafigura, has agreed to pay compensation to tens of thousands of people who say they were made ill by chemicals dumped in Ivory Coast three years ago. Each one will receive some 1,500 dollars. The company s...
The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has returned to his country nearly three months after he was expelled in a coup. He told the BBC that he had crossed mountains to get to the capital. Charles Scanlon has this report from Miami. Mr. Zel...
President Obama has warned the United Nations climate summit in New York that the current generation would be judged by history if it failed to address climate change. The Chinese President Hu Jintao said China will try hard to prevent its carbon dio...
Ten million people in five African countries and Nepal will benefit from free health care under an aid deal worth more than five billion dollars, as announced at the United Nations. An estimated three billion dollars will come from voluntary contribu...
THE HOST: And Im joined on the line from Plymouth in the southwest of England by Lan Grant whos the chief medical officer for the British Antarctic Survey. Hes responsible for training the doctors who go out to the Antarctic each year. So Lan, what a...
Leaders of the United States, Britain and France have made a joint appearance to condemn Iran, and threatened further sanctions just hours after it finally admitted having a second nuclear facility. They were speaking at the G20 summit in the US city...
The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has welcomed the decision by Iran to admit international inspectors to its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant. The Iranians insist the plant will be used only to generate electricity. From Washingt...
