The High Court in Britain has ordered the publication of US intelligence documents, allegedly proving that a former detainee in Guantanamo Bay was tortured. The British man, Binyam Mohamed, says the documents show that he was subjected to torture at...
A week and a half into a concerted campaign of violence, militants in Pakistan have carried out a series of attacks on police buildings that left about 40 people dead. At least 26 died in Lahore, where police clashed with militants whod attacked a fe...
The Senate Finance Committee in Washington has passed its version of President Obamas healthcare bill, the centerpiece of his entire domestic programme. The 800-billion-dollar bill would extend health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. Paul...
Police in California have admitted that 3 years ago they missed the opportunity to rescue a woman who had been kidnapped and held kept for 18 years. A police spokesman said that in 2006 following an emergency call officers had gone to the house with...
Officials in the Afghan capital Kabul said / the special US envoy Richard Holbrooke has been involved in a serious row with President Hamid Karzai. The BBC has learned that Mr. Holbrooke raised concern about irregularities in the recent presidential...
Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he does not believe that the leaders of the post-election protests in the country were knowingly part of any plot by foreign powers. The BBC Iran Analyst Kasra Naji reports that his statement appea...
At least 40 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a huge bomb explosion in the center of southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble for survivors. Chris Morris reports from Kabul. The attack...
The United States Attorney General Eric Holder has picked a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged CIA mistreatment of terror suspects. He is John Darren who's already investigating the destruction of video tapes of CIA interrogations. The mov...
Raging wildfires threatening the Greek capital have forced thousands of people from their homes. The greater Athens local governor has called the fire an ecological disaster. Malcolm Brabant reports from Athens. The fire has been so enormous that the...
The head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, has issued a scathing attack on the Scottish authorities for allowing the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to return home to Libya. In a letter, Mr. Mueller described the decision by the Scottish Justice Sec...
