VIDEO: The global middle class revolution
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 16:13
Where is the middle class growing around the world?
Categories: BBC News
Food labels system to be rolled out
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 16:10
A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, the government says.
Categories: BBC News
Assange vows to stay in embassy
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 16:01
Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange vows to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy in London even if accusations of sex crimes are dropped.
Categories: BBC News
VIDEO: Lourdes evacuated after flash floods
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 15:28
The Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes has been evacuated after flash floods struck south-western France.
Categories: BBC News
Campbell-Brown given provisional ban
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 15:03
Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica is provisionally suspended from competition after testing positive for a banned substance.
Categories: BBC News
VIDEO: Michelle Obama and daughters on tour
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:46
US First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia and Sasha have lunch with Irish rock star Bono and visit Glendalough.
Categories: BBC News
VIDEO: Brazil Protests: Student voices
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:30
Students in Sao Paulo tell the BBC why the protests in the country are taking place
Categories: BBC News
US to open direct Taliban talks
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:10
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban after more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan, senior White House officials announce.
Categories: BBC News
Chile to extradite Argentine judge
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:10
The Chilean Supreme Court approves the extradition of former Argentine judge Otilio Romano, accused of human rights abuses under the military government.
Categories: BBC News
'Excessive' use of face-down restraint
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:04
Ministers are considering a ban on face-down restraint in English mental hospitals as figures show the technique is being widely used.
Categories: BBC News
Montreal mayor resigns after arrest
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 13:49
Montreal's Mayor Michael Applebaum resigns, a day after his arrest on 14 fraud charges, the latest scandal to hit Canadian local politics.
Categories: BBC News
Pakistan funeral bomb kills 28
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 13:49
At least 28 people, including a newly-elected lawmaker, are killed in a suicide bombing at a funeral in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
Categories: BBC News
Mali signs peace deal with Tuareg
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 13:47
Mali's government signs a peace deal with Tuareg rebels to end conflict in the north in the run-up to elections next month.
Categories: BBC News
Venus Williams to miss Wimbledon
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 13:22
Five-time singles champion Venus Williams is forced to pull out of Wimbledon because of a back injury.
Categories: BBC News
VIDEO: Camera pioneers' work goes on display
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 13:17
Portraits by 19th century photographers Henry and Charles Meade are subjects of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
Categories: BBC News
Chrysler agrees to recall 2.7m Jeeps
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 12:13
Chrysler agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps that could be at risk of fuel tank fires, after initially refusing a US government request to do so.
Categories: BBC News
Deloitte gets one-year New York ban
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 11:50
Deloitte is suspended for one year from doing consulting work in New York after regulators criticised its work at Standard Chartered on anti-money laundering issues.
Categories: BBC News
Italy U21 2-4 Spain U21
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 11:19
Thiago Alcantara grabs a first-half hat-trick as Spain outclass Italy to retain the European Under-21 Championship in Israel.
Categories: BBC News
Italy school bomber gets life term
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 11:06
An Italian court sentences to life in prison a man who carried out a school bomb attack in 2012, which killed a teenage girl and injured nine others.
Categories: BBC News
VIDEO: Lawrence concert line-up unveiled
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 11:05
Twenty years after the teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in London, details of a star-studded concert in his memory have been unveiled.
Categories: BBC News



