audio iconNewshour
Mobiles graphic Mobiles
Get news headlines on your handheld device
News Front Page
Africa
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Middle East
South Asia
UK
Business
Health
Science/Nature
Technology
Entertainment
-----------------
Video and Audio
-----------------
Have Your Say
In Pictures
Country Profiles
Special Reports
RELATED BBC SITES
LANGUAGES
Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 12:16 GMT
US doctors treating an Afghan civilian caught in the blast (Picture courtesy: US Air Force)
Afghan base hit as Cheney visits
A suicide bomber kills five people outside Afghanistan's main US base, as Vice-President Dick Cheney visits.
Afghanistan's suicide upsurge
Quick guide: Afghanistan
Who are the militants?

A Darfuri woman at a camp for displaced people in Nyala, Sudan Court names Darfur war suspects
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor begins to name war crimes suspects in Darfur.
Security officer on guard at Guatemala jail Guatemala arrests over jail killings
The head of a Guatemalan prison and 21 employees are held over the killing of four police officers at the jail.
OTHER TOP STORIES
Diplomats hurt in S Lanka attack
Iraq cabinet agrees new oil law
Koreas set for high-level talks
Jesus tomb found says director
200-year porn sentence stands
Bee vanishing act baffles keepers

ALSO IN THE NEWS

Toby Dawson Olympic medal reunion for US skier and South Korean father

Scientists are developing drug-release device to fit between the teeth. The hi-tech tooth implant that could deliver medicine

SPORT HEADLINES

Tennis: Federer advances
Football: Lille to continue protest


FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Burmese woman sewing in Mae Sot Fleeing Burma
Life for the thousands of migrants who cross the border to Thailand
Amina Haji Mumin Feeding a habit
Widows in war-torn Somalia selling khat to feed their children
Train fire Godhra's ghost
Fear in Gujarat five years after train blaze and religious riots


VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
Concrete ball Concrete balls to plug mud volcano

watch Two-minute summary
US base hit on Cheney visit
ICC names Darfur 'suspects'
US builds pressure on Iran

More Video / Audio News
WORLD SERVICE RADIO PROGRAMMES
listen World Service Bulletin
listen World Service live
listen Newshour
listen World Today

More from Programmes
MOST POPULAR VIDEO AND AUDIO

AROUND THE WORLD NOW

AFRICA
Senegal election 'free and fair'
Guinea PM named in strike deal
AMERICAS
Bolivia city faces 'flood threat'
Warning on $15bn Boeing deal
ASIA-PACIFIC
China PM warns on social justice
Sell off knocks Chinese shares
EUROPE
European research goes for gold
French teen dies in Saudi ambush
MIDDLE EAST
Egypt stops pro-militant Iraq TV
One shot dead in West Bank raid
SOUTH ASIA
Congress party in election defeat
Panel for Nepal property takeover
MORE FROM BBC NEWS

UK
Drivers face new phone penalties
BUSINESS
EADS agrees Airbus restructuring
HEALTH
Watchdog blasts 'X-treme Eating'
SCIENCE/NATURE
Space blast's huge debris field
TECHNOLOGY
Burgers paid for by mobile phone
ENTERTAINMENT
Brown jailed over child support
HAVE YOUR SAY

Passport being processed Should migrants do community work?
CONTACT US

A person taking a picture Help us make the news, with your pictures, views and stories


WORLD WEATHER

 

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Final Fantasy XII fan In pictures
Fans turn out for the European launch of Final Fantasy XII
Armenian refugee mother and child (picture taken 1915-16 by German photographer Armin Wegner; reproduced here by permission of the Armenian National Institute) Facing away
How Turkish attitudes to the mass killing of Armenians changed
FROM ON THIS DAY
General de Gaulle broadcasting from the BBC 1941 1963: De Gaulle's enemy charged
Ex-colonel accused of assassination attempt

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

ELSEWHERE ON THE BBC

information on Chinese culture (Image: Chinese template)
Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific