Voters in England and Wales are going to the polls in local elections. They're the first major election tests since Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister last year. The most high profile contest is one for mayor of London. Oliver Conway...
BBC news with Mary Small. The United Nations has announced plans for a task force to deal with the worldwide rise in food prices. At a summit of international agencies in Switzerland, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said the immediate priority w...
The governing Labour Party in Britain has been defeated in the election for Mayor of London. Setting the seal on its worst performance in local elections for more than 40 years, the veteran left winger Ken Livingstone who's been mayor since the job w...
At least 18 prisoners have been killed in a fight at a jail in Honduras .It happened when a group of inmates who had been transferred from another jail were set upon by armed inmates. Police were called in to help restore order. Claire Marshall repor...
The software giant Microsoft has withdrawn its offer for the internet services company Yahoo because the two can not agree on the price. Microsoft said it had raised this offer by about $5 billion to $33 a share. But Yahoo wanted $37 dollars a share....
A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has told the BBC that British football fans with valid tickets for the Champions League Final being held in Moscow in just over two weeks will not need visas if they only come for one day. The move aims to...
State radio in Burma has reported that more than 22,000 people were killed in Saturday cyclone and over 40,000 others are missing. Dan Griffith sent this report from neighboring Thailand. The Burmese authorities said many were killed in the massive w...
The American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted that she'll keep fighting for the Democratic Party's nomination, despite disappointing results in the latest primaries. Senator Clinton was speaking at a campaign rally in West Virginia...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied accepting bribes of hundreds of thousands of dollars from an American businessman. Mr. Olmert has admitted receiving financial contributions for election campaigns from the businessman before he became Pr...
A constitutional referendum is underway in Burma despite appeals from the United Nations for a postponement because of the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis a week ago. The polls has been delayed for two weeks in the worst affected areas. Earlier,...
