BBC World Service - Newshour

12/12/2011(2100 GMT)

David Cameron's political gamble;faking filming polar bears? Swiss eurovision singer at 87

Inside Syria's uprising; the cost of Britain's EU opt out; China gets football star

Pakistan PM on strained relations with US; cracks in UK coalition; free running in Gaza

UK coalition tensions over Europe; Romney's $10,000 bet; and a palace made out of teeth

Protests in Russia; climate conference ends; and jerks in banks.

Russians protest against Putin; the search for Robert Levinson; Cabbies' brains

UK isolation over the Euro; Haiti demands compensation from UN; and finding the Joker.

Special coverage from Brussels of the Eurozone crisis; Calcutta hospital blaze

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

Can the Euro be saved?; auctioning Hitler's library, and clinics for stalkers