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Updated: Thu, 24 May 2012 03:54:42 -0400

News: World

Berlusconi wins party photos ban
Italy's PM succeeds in blocking the publication of potentially embarrassing photos of young women at a party at his villa.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Saturday May 30
 
Obama 'helped' Opel rescue deal
The German chancellor says President Obama helped swing a deal to save carmaker Opel from GM's imminent bankruptcy.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Saturday May 30
 
Clinging on
Opel's future still in doubt despite Magna rescue deal
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Saturday May 30
 
In pictures
The secret state - as viewed from South Korea
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Saturday May 30
 
Friendly hand
Why China seeks stronger ties with Bangladesh
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Saturday May 30
 
The pull of Knock
Why pilgrims continue to flock to western Ireland
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Saturday May 30
 
US presses Australia to take Uighurs
The US asks Australia to accept a group of Chinese Muslim detainees waiting to be freed from Guantanamo prison camp.
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Saturday May 30
 
US asks Australia to take Uighurs
The Obama administration asks Australia to accept a group of Chinese Muslim detainees waiting to be freed from Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Saturday May 30
 
Porsche recovered in Paris murder hunt
UK police find a sports car thought to belong to a man whose girlfriend was found beaten to death in a Paris hotel.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Saturday May 30
 
US man fined in Israeli spy case
An elderly former employee of the US army is fined, but spared jail, for passing classified documents to Israel in the 1980s.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Saturday May 30
 
Germany picks Magna to save Opel
Canadian firm Magna agrees a deal to take over the Opel wing of US carmaker GM, which is soon expected to file for bankruptcy.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Saturday May 30
 
Cricket: Ponting doubt over Flintoff fitness
Australia captain Ricky Ponting says England may be better off without Andrew Flintoff in their Ashes side, unless he is 100% fit.
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Saturday May 30
 
US 'opposes' nuclear North Korea
The US "will not accept" a nuclear-armed North Korea, the country's defence secretary tells an Asian security conference.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Saturday May 30
 
Swine flu liner docks in Brisbane
A cruise ship carrying 2,000 people docks in Brisbane after three crew members test positive for swine flu.
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Saturday May 30
 
Peru stands by asylum decisions
Peru defends its controversial granting of asylum to an opponent of President Hugo Chavez and three Bolivian politicians.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Saturday May 30
 
Magna 'close' to GM Europe deal
Late-night talks are continuing in Berlin as US and German officials seek a takeover of GM's European divisions Opel and Vauxhall.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Mexico seizes five in drugs swoop
Mexican police arrest five alleged members of one of the country's most powerful drugs cartels, days after 27 officials were held.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
Pen or the sword?
Nigerian writers mark a decade of democracy
news.bbc.co.uk | Africa | Friday May 29
 
Britons to return from Zimbabwe
More than 60 UK passport holders reduced to poverty in Zimbabwe will be repatriated to Britain over the next few weeks.
news.bbc.co.uk | Africa | Friday May 29
 
Phil Spector jailed for 19 years
US music producer Phil Spector is given a sentence of at least 19 years in prison for murdering an actress in 2003.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
French Open day six as it happened
Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal go through to the fourth round at Roland Garros, but Venus Williams crashes out.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Tennis: Venus crashes out of French Open
Third seed Venus Williams is sent tumbling out of the French Open with a 6-0 6-4 defeat by Agnes Szavay.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
Prince Harry at Ground Zero on first official tour
Prince Harry lays a wreath at the site of the World Trade Center in New York as part of a two-day US trip.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
US launches cyber security plan
President Obama unveils plans for a US cyber security tsar, saying digital infrastructure is a "strategic national asset".
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
N Korea 'planning more missiles'
US officials say they have spotted signs of activity at a site used by North Korea for a long-range missile launch.
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Friday May 29
 
Violence mars Georgian protests
Several people are injured as opponents of Georgia's president clash with police in the capital Tbilisi, reports say.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
In pictures
Looking back at Jay Leno on the Tonight Show
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
Searches over Paris hotel body
Police search a number of properties in Cheshire after the wealthy girlfriend of a businessman was found beaten to death at a Paris hotel.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
SA doctors march for better pay
Hundreds of South African doctors march through cities to demand a 50% pay rise and more investment in hospitals.
news.bbc.co.uk | Africa | Friday May 29
 
Magna is 'very close' to GM deal
Canadian car parts maker Magna is the preferred bidder for GM Europe, owner of Opel and Vauxhall, Lord Mandelson says.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
German corpse 'may be Luxemburg'
A body found in a Berlin hospital may be that of murdered communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, say German officials.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Snowboard star dies on Mont Blanc
Former French Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby dies after a mountain accident in the Alps, French police say.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
'Day of reckoning'
Austria's far right builds on anti-EU feelings
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Teams submit F1 entries for 2010
Ferrari and the rest of the teams belonging to Fota submit conditional entries for the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Cycling: Armstrong in heavy Giro fall
Lance Armstrong escapes serious injury after a fall midway through the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia, which is won by Spain's Carlos Sastre.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
Russia opens WMD disposal plant
A partly US-funded factory opens in Siberia to decommission vast stocks of chemical weapons held by Russia.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Suu Kyi health a 'grave concern'
Jailed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from cramps and needs urgent medical care, her party says.
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Friday May 29
 
Koreans turn out in force for Roh
Thousands of South Koreans throng Seoul for the funeral of former President Roh Moo-hyun, who killed himself last week.
news.bbc.co.uk | Asia | Friday May 29
 
Shell shock for Russian village after navy target practice
A Russian warship accidentally shells a village in the St Petersburg region but no-one is injured, officials say.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Obama test
Can the new US president deliver on the Middle East?
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
US economy shrinks at slower pace
The US economy shrank by 5.7% in the first quarter of 2009, less than had previously been estimated by official figures.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
British man dies in balloon crash
A British man is reported killed and nine other tourists injured in a hot-air balloon crash during a trip in Turkey.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Scores die in Sudan horse battles
An estimated 250 people in central Sudan have been killed during a week of clashes between nomadic groups, officials say.
news.bbc.co.uk | Africa | Friday May 29
 
Hague to try Seselj for contempt
Serb nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj is to go on trial at The Hague for contempt of court.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Anglo Irish gets aid from Dublin
The Irish government announces it will inject 4bn euros into Anglo Irish Bank after the lender reported big half yearly losses.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Italy evacuates burning car ferry
About 500 passengers on board an Italian car ferry take to lifeboats after a fire breaks out in the vessel's hold.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
US spelling champion's far from 'Laodicean' race to victory
An "un-Laodicean" performance wins 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar the title of US spelling champion 2009.
news.bbc.co.uk | Americas | Friday May 29
 
'Historic' cocaine haul in France
Two British men are arrested in France after customs officers find a record 684kg (1,507lbs) of cocaine inside their lorry.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29
 
Ten years old
Is Nigeria's democracy really a military affair?
news.bbc.co.uk | Africa | Friday May 29
 
Eurozone inflation at record low
Prices in the eurozone stopped rising in May, with the official inflation rate 0.0%, fuelling fears of impending deflation.
news.bbc.co.uk | Europe | Friday May 29

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