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2011 » May 2011 » May 6th 2011
ChinaChinese dogs destined for the dinner table
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BrazilHomosexuals in same-sex unions in Brazil should be given the same legal rights as married heterosexuals, the country's Supreme Court rules.
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JapanSony shares fall as Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index resumes trade after the Golden Week holiday.
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EcuadorEcuador votes on judges, media - and bullfights
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United KingdomThe coroner at the inquests on the victims of the 7/7 London bombings is due to publish her findings and record official verdicts.
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PakistanAt least eight people belonging to Pakistan's minority Shia community die in an explosion in the south-western city of Quetta.
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United KingdomWest Ham will allow their England internationals to leave Upton Park if the club are relegated, says co-owner David Gold.
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SyriaSyrian activists have taken to the streets following Friday prayers for what they are calling a "day of defiance".
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United StatesThe first debate of the Republican presidential primary campaign is held, though most major contenders do not take part.
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IsraelArab Spring poses challenges for Israeli leader
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TurkeyThe second free practice session is taking place ahead of Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix.
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LibyaOpposition flag painted on Tripoli's stray animals
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ChileChilean base jumper Julio Munoz has ridden a motorbike off a 4,000m-high mountain in the Andes.
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India, 
ArubaAustralian cricket legend Shane Warne says he will retire from professional cricket at the end of the current Indian Premier League campaign.
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United StatesSeveral US states that were hit by recent storms in the south and midwest now face the threat of severe flooding.
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TurkeyFerrari's Fernando Alonso sets the pace and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel spins out in a wet first practice session at the Turkish Grand Prix.
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JapanPsychologists in Japan have said that they are concerned survivors of the earthquake and tsunami could develop long-term mental health problems if they do not talk about what happened.
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United KingdomAttributable losses widen at Royal Bank of Scotland in the first quarter, but at an operating level the bank is in profit.
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United KingdomInternational Airlines Group sees revenues up and losses down in the first results since the British Airways-Iberia merger.
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Papua New Guinea, 
AustraliaA row erupts in Australia over reports it plans to reopen a processing centre for asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea used under the "Pacific solution" policy.
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JapanNew images are released of the interior of a crippled reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, as efforts continue to restore a vital cooling system.
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LibyaLibya's opposition sets out to international leaders its plan for the country if and when Colonel Gaddafi falls from power.
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RussiaA Russian nationalist and his girlfriend are jailed for murdering human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009.
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SyriaSyrians prepare for a 'day of defiance' against President Bashar al-Assad's government, as security forces deploy in Damascus and other towns.
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VietnamVietnam blocks off the scene of a rare protest by thousands of ethnic Hmong in a remote mountainous area in the north-east, reports say.
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SpainThe family of Spanish golf legend Seve Ballesteros, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008, have said that his condition is worsening.
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Pakistan, United StatesAt least 12 people are killed by US drone missiles in a Pakistani tribal area, officials say, in the first such strike since the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
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Pakistan, United StatesAl-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was actively involved in planning new terror attacks, US officials say, citing documents reportedly found in his Pakistan compound.
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UkraineThe Ukrainian government has opened the site of the world's most deadly nuclear accident to tourists for the first time.
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ChinaChinese media regulators suspend spy and police shows from television ahead of the ruling Communist party's 90th anniversary.
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United KingdomJaguar plans to build a £700,000 petrol-electric hybrid supercar in the UK, in partnership with Formula 1 team Williams F1.
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SpainHopes fade for 22 African migrants missing after their boat took on water off the coast of southern Spain.
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SpainReal Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is handed a five-match European ban for his conduct after the Champions League first-leg semi-final against Barcelona.
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MaldivesPolice in the Maldives clash with hundreds of protesters in central Male, preventing them from demonstrating over soaring food prices.
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United StatesAl-Qaeda confirms the death of its leader Osama Bin Laden, according to a statement attributed to the group.
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NigeriaThe oil giant Shell loses its appeal against a ruling that it is not the rightful owner of land where it runs Nigeria's biggest oil export terminal.
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QatarAllyson Felix wins the 400m while Britain's Michael Rimmer is second in the 800m at the first meeting of the Diamond League season in Doha.
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United KingdomDelays in the response to the 7/7 bombings did not cause any deaths, a coroner concludes, but there is some criticism for MI5 and the emergency services.
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GermanyFormer German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg "deliberately" plagiarised his doctoral thesis, a university investigation finds.
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United KingdomA tapestry of British artist Tracey Emin's Black Cat painting goes on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
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South AfricaSheryl Cwele, the wife of South Africa's intelligence minister, is sentenced to 12 years in jail for drug trafficking.
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Nigeria, 
KenyaMore than a 100 elephant tusks have been seized at Nairobi's international airport, found in containers labelled with a Nigerian address, Kenyan police say.
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IndiaThe Indian start-up which had a good recession
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Libya, United Kingdom, 
TunisiaForeign Office advises against all travel near the Tunisia-Libya border because of attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
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United KingdomWorld War II veteran George Broomhead on how he found himself at the centre of a famous photograph of the ecstatic VE Day celebrations in London.
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United StatesFears grow among US residents along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers as rising flood waters threaten communities from Illinois to Louisiana.
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United KingdomSNP leader Alex Salmond says his party's sweeping victory at the Holyrood election was "a victory for a society and a nation".
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United KingdomCraig Whyte completes his takeover of Rangers after buying Sir David Murray's majority shareholding for £1 as board members continue to voice doubts about the deal.
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GreeceThe single currency falls on reports that Greece has raised the possibility of leaving the euro.
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PakistanAl-Qaeda confirms the death in northern Pakistan on Monday of its leader, Osama Bin Laden, according to a statement posted on jihadist internet forums.
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Kenya, United KingdomSensitive files from Britain's colonial past are to be released after a court case by Kenyan Mau Mau veterans.
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Atlantic OceanRecovery teams raise a second body from the underwater wreckage of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all those on board.
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United StatesThe American composer Steve Reich speaks to the BBC about his new work marking the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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United StatesA lawyer for US actor Nicholas Cage says he will not face criminal charges over an arrest last month in New Orleans.
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LebanonThe prosecutor of the UN-backed tribunal files a new indictment in the investigation of the 2005 killing of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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United KingdomWarner Music is sold for $3.3bn (£2bn) to an industrial group whose interests range from oil to UK broadcaster Top Up TV.
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SpainRafael Nadal and Roger Federer are set to meet in the last four of the Madrid Masters.
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United KingdomWith just 35 of Northern Ireland's 108 MLAs elected, the DUP and Sinn Fein look set to remain the biggest parties in the new Assembly
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama meets the team that killed Osama Bin Laden and praises "one of the greatest military operations in our nation's history".
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United StatesUS employment rose in April for the seventh month in a row but the overall unemployment rate has also risen.
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