ello, I'm Jerry Smit with the BBC news. Women's rights activists in Afghanistan have reacted angrily to an appeals court's decision in Afghanistan to quash death sentences imposed on four men involved in the mob-killing of the young woman Farkhunda i...
Hello, Im Sue Montgomery with the BBC news. Greece has become the first advanced economy ever to go into arrears with the International Monetary Fund. Its failed to pay back 1.6 billion Euros to the IMF and its international bailout agreement has als...
Hours before a deadline for Greece to repay 1.6 billion euros, Prime Minister Alexi Tsipras has urged his countrys voters to back his plans to end austerity. He said no vote in Sundays referendum would help negotiate a more favorable settlement to hi...
It's now been confirmed that at least 30 of the 38 people shot dead at a Tunisian beach resort were British nationals. The gunmen has been identified as a student linked to the Islamic State militant group. Mark Lowen reports. The scale of this trage...
After hours of heated discussion, European leaders have agreed to take in tens of thousands migrants who've arrived in the EU, but only on a voluntary basis. More than 150,000 migrants have attempted to enter the EU this year. Damian Grammaticas in B...
An inquiry into the deaths of 34 striking miners in South Africa three years ago has heavily criticised the police who opened fire and has recommended a criminal investigation. The South African President Jacob Zuma said the inquiry had found that po...
The South African President Jacob Zuma has announced the findings of an inquiry into the shooting by police of striking workers at the Marikana platinum mine. Thirty-four miners were killed in August, 2012, the worst violence the country's seen since...
The man convicted of the bomb attack on the Boston Marathon has apologised to the victims. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechen, was speaking in court before he was formally sentenced to death. Gary O'Donoghue reports. This is the first ti...
WikiLeaks is publishing what it said is a document showing that the US National Security Agency spied on the French President Francois Hollande and his two immediate predecessors Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac. French media reported that the comm...
Stock markets have surged in the Far East amid signs that a deal to prevent Greece defaulting on its debt may be close at hand. 远东股市大涨,诸多迹象表明可能很快达成有关阻止希腊违约的协议。 The Greek government has out...