成千上万的难民正利用夏季暖和的气候和平静的海面，奋力的从非洲转移到欧洲去。他们最常用的路线是从西北非到达西班牙的加那利群岛。在过去的几周里成千的难民已经成功登陆了加那利...
BBC News, with Sandy Walsh. The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has accused the opposition Movement for Democratic Change of lying about political violence ahead of next week's presidential run-off election. He also said that only God could remo...
New research from United States suggested that the melting of Arctic sea ice is speeding up. And during the coming month the ice cap may shrink to levels never seen before. More details from Richard Black. The colder then average winter in the northe...
Police in Japan have raided two companies suspected of illegally supplying North Korea with vital equipment for enriching uranium. The authorities were acting on a tip-off from United Nations inspectors who discovered a Japanese made vacuum pump in N...
Protesters in at least 4 cities in China have demonstrated outside branches of the French supermarket chain, Carrefour. They were angry at disruption to the Paris leg of Olympic torch relay by anti-China protesters and at what many see as French supp...
The Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says he believes it's inevitable that the country will eventually become a republic. From Sydney FM Australia seems to be heading inexorably towards becoming a republic. The Foreign Minister Stephen Smith...
A former British Deputy Prime Minister John Presccot has revealed that he suffered from the eating disorder bulimia.He said he ate to deal with the stress of the job.With the details,here is Ross Hawkings. Shame and embarrassments stopped him talking...
A senior United Nations' official who's just finishes her visit to Iraq has condemned militias and insurgent group for making increasing use of children, some as young as ten, in political violence. The official, Radhika Coomaraswamy said some of the...
A fire in the Moroccan city of Casablanca has killed 55 people and injured 12 others. The fire broke out on the ground floor of a mattress factory and was so fierce that it tool firefighters many hours to get inside. It's not yet clear what caused th...
The BBC has evidence that the United Nations has ignored and overlooked allegations that UN peace-keepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo traded in gold and provided weapons to rebel militia.A BBC investigation lasting 18 months finds evidence to...
