BBC News

Syndicate content BBC News
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
Updated: 7 hours 13 min ago

Live - Turkish Grand Prix

7 hours 17 min ago
Ferrari's Felipe Massa and McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen start from the front row in Istanbul, with Lewis Hamilton third.
Categories: General News

Blair scared of Brown - Prescott

7 hours 37 min ago
John Prescott's memoirs tell of the furious resentment between the former PM Tony Blair and his chancellor.
Categories: General News

Sudan cuts Chad ties over attack

8 hours 2 min ago
Sudan accuses Chad of helping Darfur rebels to attack Khartoum and says it is breaking diplomatic ties.
Categories: General News

UK economic outlook 'worsening'

8 hours 3 min ago
Economic prospects for the next 18 months have got worse, the British Chambers of Commerce warns.
Categories: General News

Parties united on abortion laws

8 hours 5 min ago
The four main NI party leaders ask MPs to state their opposition to plans to extend the Abortion Act.
Categories: General News

Sri Lankan government wins vote

8 hours 14 min ago
Sri Lanka's ruling coalition wins a provincial election seen as key to its strategy against the Tamil Tigers.
Categories: General News

Mass for bakery murder altar boy

8 hours 18 min ago
The family of a teenager killed during an attack at a bakery in south-east London attend a Mass in his honour.
Categories: General News

Levy 'not bitter' towards Blair

8 hours 19 min ago
Tony Blair's ex-fund-raiser Lord Levy says he is "not bitter" over the cash-for-honours row.
Categories: General News

Live - Premier League & Championship

8 hours 21 min ago
Watford face Hull in the first leg of their Championship semi-final play-off ahead of the Premier League finale.
Categories: General News

Serbs voting in watershed ballot

8 hours 22 min ago
Serbs are voting in a snap election seen as the most important since the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic.
Categories: General News

Lebanese violence spreading

8 hours 24 min ago
Lebanese troops deploy in Tripoli to end fierce fighting between Hezbollah allies and government supporters.
Categories: General News

No jabs, no school says Labour MP

8 hours 27 min ago
Children who have not received all their vaccinations should not be allowed to start school, a Labour MP suggests.
Categories: General News

Brown vows to fight UK break up

8 hours 51 min ago
The prime minister pledges to do "whatever is necessary" to preserve the UK in the face of calls for Scottish independence.
Categories: General News

Pc hurt in stolen vehicle pursuit

9 hours 34 min ago
A man is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer is injured trying to stop a stolen vehicle.
Categories: General News

Warning over social care funding

10 hours 15 min ago
Ministers will warn that England's care system is heading towards a £6bn shortfall unless there is radical reform, the BBC learns.
Categories: General News

In pictures

10 hours 26 min ago
Tornadoes trail of destruction across US Midwest states
Categories: General News

Tornado wrecks central US towns

10 hours 44 min ago
Tornadoes and severe storms sweep the central US, severely damaging two towns and killing at least 18 people.
Categories: General News

Burma's survivors 'facing crisis'

11 hours 29 min ago
Burmese cyclone survivors face a massive crisis unless they are urgently delivered aid, leading agencies warn.
Categories: General News

Nobel Prize win a disaster, says author Doris Lessing

13 hours 18 min ago
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing says winning the award has stopped her being able to write.
Categories: General News

Gunmen kill top Mexican policemen

Sun, 11/05/2008 - 02:32
Three top Mexican police officials are shot dead in as many days as the fight against drug gangs continues.
Categories: General News