BBC World Service - Newshour

13/05/2012(1200 GMT)

Taliban negotiator assassinated; Greek political crisis; football fever grips Manchester.

Militants admit Damascus blasts; Indignants hold anniversary march; 200 years of nonsense

Greece emergency talks; Occupy movement returns; the trouble with hoarding.

Greek parties fail to form government; new Spanish banking rules; and LOL explained

JP Morgan loses $2bn. How old is too old to be breast-fed? Drug can prevent HIV infection.

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.

Syria blasts compromise peace plan; lunch break discos; Brad Pitt new face of Chanel no.5

Devastation in Homs, Syria; Obama approves gay marriage; Obstacles to women in science

Bomb blast hits UN convoy in Syria, Saudi help with CIA 'bomber', Punch and Judy at 350

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.