7/30/2010 8:35:38 AM
AP - BP's incoming CEO says it's time to scale back the massive effort to clean up the oil spill, but adds that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.
7/30/2010 8:37:59 AM
AP - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.
7/30/2010 8:26:43 AM
AP - The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.
7/30/2010 8:27:02 AM
AP - The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia launched an unprecedented effort Friday to defuse fears of violence over upcoming indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
7/30/2010 8:25:44 AM
AP - The White House is imploring the website WikiLeaks not to post any more classified documents about the Afghanistan war, saying U.S. national security and Afghan lives are at risk.
7/30/2010 8:40:09 AM
AP - Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin consoled survivors at one smoldering village and urged officials to redouble their efforts against the blazes.
7/30/2010 5:57:18 AM
AP - Republicans wanted an election-season ethics case against Democratic powerhouse Rep. Charles Rangel of New York. And now, it looks like they have one.
7/30/2010 8:55:44 AM
AP - A Florida inmate is suing the man he's convicted of burglarizing, claiming the man and two others roughed him up during a citizen's arrest.
7/30/2010 8:38:50 AM
Reuters - Economic growth slowed in the second quarter as companies invested heavily in equipment from abroad and the pace of consumer spending eased, raising concerns about the recovery in the rest of 2010.
7/30/2010 8:10:36 AM
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation on Friday to reform the oil industry's offshore drilling practices in response to the BP oil spill.
7/30/2010 6:57:05 AM
Reuters - Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said on Friday.
7/30/2010 8:05:16 AM
Reuters - Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident involving a U.S. embassy vehicle, police said.
7/30/2010 8:29:31 AM
Reuters - The influential speaker of Italy's lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his supporters could vote against the government of former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
7/30/2010 7:49:12 AM
Reuters - More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, a panel of U.S. judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how piles of oil spill-related lawsuits against BP Plc should be merged.
7/30/2010 8:51:50 AM
AFP - Visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi King Abdullah on Friday urged Lebanese parties to avoid resorting to violence in the face of mounting political tensions in the country.
7/30/2010 7:04:30 AM
AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday faced a parliamentary crisis after splitting with his one-time ally, lower house speaker Gianfranco Fini, citing "obvious divisions".
7/30/2010 8:08:00 AM
The fires have spread quickly across more than 200,000 acres in recent days after a record heat wave and severe drought. July has been the hottest month in Moscow in 130 years of recorded history.
7/30/2010 5:36:00 AM
U.S. growth slowed to a 2.4 percent rate in the second quarter, the weakest pace in nearly a year. That compares with the upwardly revised 3.7 percent increase in the first quarter of this year.
7/30/2010 1:00:00 AM
Opponents took to the streets of Phoenix as parts of the immigration-enforcement law that were not blocked by a federal judge went into effect Thursday. At least 50 people were arrested throughout the day in acts of civil disobedience.
7/30/2010 8:57:12 AM
The new BP chief executive has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico.
7/30/2010 8:07:39 AM
Government plans to limit the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the UK are criticised by the Lord Mayor of London.
7/30/2010 8:59:17 AM
Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, confirms he will come back to the UK to stand trail on theft charges.
7/30/2010 9:02:41 AM
An exhibition of paintings by a seven-year-old artist from Norfolk sells out, fetching about £150,000 in half an hour.
7/30/2010 2:27:24 AM
James Anderson completes a five-wicket haul on his 28th birthday as Pakistan struggle at Trent Bridge.
7/30/2010 9:00:54 AM
Jessica Ennis continues her heptathlon campaign while British athletes go for a hatful of medals on day four in Barcelona.
7/30/2010 7:26:19 AM
Bristol City sign England goalkeeper David James following his release from Portsmouth.
7/30/2010 8:58:03 AM
The new identity of Jon Venables must be kept secret because there is "compelling evidence" of a threat to his safety, a judge says.
7/30/2010 7:40:39 AM
The High Court bans a man from staging sex parties and pole-dancing classes at the mansion he owns in central London.
7/30/2010 8:01:42 AM
A toddler drowned after falling into a garden pond during a visit to a house in Edinburgh, it has emerged.
7/30/2010 7:02:53 AM
The Court of Arbitration for Sport rules against the Irish Football Association in their bid to prevent more Northern-Ireland born players opting for the Republic.
7/30/2010 8:29:50 AM
A nine-year-old girl from Wales has died in a rafting accident while on holiday in Turkey.
7/30/2010 8:00:49 AM
Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of a "brave, courageous and loyal" soldier killed in Afghanistan.
7/30/2010 8:35:03 AM
Three Kenyans are charged with the murders of 76 people killed when bombs exploded as they watched the World Cup o World Cup on TV in Kampala, Uganda.
7/30/2010 7:46:15 AM
Forest fires kill at least 23 people in central Russia, while a forecast of heavy rain brings relief to Moscow.
7/30/2010 7:28:41 AM
President Nicolas Sarkozy says he would like to strip French nationality from anyone of foreign origin who threatened the life of a police officer.
7/30/2010 8:56:59 AM
Syria's president and the Saudi king call on Lebanon's rival factions to avoid turning to violence amid mounting political tensions in the country.
7/30/2010 8:28:15 AM
US forces suffered the deadliest month of their nine-year Afghan campaign, with 66 service members killed in July.
7/30/2010 8:30:37 AM
A US soldier accused of leaking video of a deadly 2007 Iraq helicopter attack to the Wikileaks website is transferred to a Virginia base pending trial.
7/30/2010 8:31:18 AM
Airbus parent firm EADS says it is confident about future orders, despite reporting a fall in second-quarter earnings.
7/30/2010 7:31:24 AM
The Pensions Regulator is opposing a crucial plan to pay off the £10bn deficit in the Royal Mail pension scheme.
7/29/2010 11:37:19 PM
Newsbeat's had an exclusive look at new training being given to UK soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire.
7/29/2010 4:09:35 PM
Researchers identify rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.
7/30/2010 8:00:31 AM
The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl reveals evidence of mammals declining in the exclusion zone.
7/29/2010 3:47:14 AM
Hawley Crippen is one of the most infamous killers in British history. But was he really innocent of murdering his wife?
7/30/2010 3:59:58 AM
More than 400 people have been killed and nearly 400,000 displaced in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northern Pakistan.
7/30/2010 7:14:34 AM
The families of the victims of the Potters Bar train crash say they would like a public inquiry into the incident which killed seven people.
7/30/2010 8:49:57 AM
Wild fires have continued to rage in central and western Russia, with more than 20 people now reported to have died.
7/30/2010 4:27:00 AM
Did they really play croquet at the Olympics?
7/30/2010 6:34:30 AM
Northern Cyprus is a "haven" for fugitives no longer
