China's appetite for work and wealth
2012-01-22 20:08:01
Jeremy Paxman's portrait of the new China
VIDEO: Nigeria president 'to defeat attackers'
2012-01-22 17:43:27
Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has promised to defeat the perpetrators of the attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which left more than 150 people dead.
Shot politician Giffords to quit
2012-01-22 15:18:04
US politician Gabrielle Giffords announces she is to resign from Congress, a year after she was shot in the head.
Arsenal 1-2 Man Utd
2012-01-22 13:29:17
Danny Welbeck's goal hands Manchester United a 2-1 victory at Arsenal and keeps them three points behind Manchester City.
Ivory Coast 1-0 Sudan
2012-01-22 13:17:34
Ivory Coast beat a stubborn Sudan 1-0 in their first game at this year's Africa Cup of Nations.
US football coach Paterno dies
2012-01-22 11:02:43
Legendary ex-football coach Joe Paterno dies at 85, just months after being sacked over claims he failed to act over sex abuse claims against an assistant.
VIDEO: Gingrich triumphs in South Carolina
2012-01-22 04:04:54
Newt Gingrich convincingly beats Mitt Romney to win the South Carolina primary, the latest leg of the battle for the Republican candidacy in the US presidential election.
Dead man no dissident, says Cuba
2012-01-21 13:43:08
Cuba's government denies that Wilman Villar, who died in custody on Thursday, was a dissident who had been on hunger strike.
Pakistan's political soap opera
2012-01-21 06:53:33
Why Pakistan's colourful politics resembles a TV drama
Beijing gets more pollution data
2012-01-21 06:50:33
Authorities in China's capital Beijing bow to public pressure and start releasing more detailed air pollution information.
VIDEO: Cuban hunger striker dies in jail
2012-01-21 04:13:56
A jailed Cuban political dissident has died, 50 days after beginning a hunger strike, a human rights group says.
Nigeria city curfew after blasts
2012-01-21 00:58:50
A curfew is imposed in Nigeria's northern city of Kano after co-ordinated bomb attacks targeting police leave at least seven people dead.
Radcliffe defends Ginsberg role
2012-01-20 19:53:19
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe says he has a pre-prepared defence against criticism of his casting as US beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
VIDEO: Inside Syria with opposition activists
2012-01-20 18:41:05
Newsnight's Tim Whewell discovers armed opponents of President Assad's regime established inside the Syrian capital.
VIDEO: Children risk lives on way to school
2012-01-20 18:40:25
Students in a village in Indonesia are risking their lives to take a short cut to school by continuing to use a suspension bridge that collapsed a week ago in flooding.