BBC World Service - Newshour

20/08/2011 (2100 BST)

Exchanges of gunfire in Tripoli; Iran jails US hikers; a call for sperm of football fans

Libyan rebels close in on Tripoli; UN heads to Syria; and blogging with cancer in Italy

US Syria policy; British Council chief on Afghan attack and can classical ever be cool?

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

Calls for Assad to step down; Israel attacked, retaliation in Gaza; celebs behaving badly

Attacks on Israeli buses, Libyan rebels seize refinery and selling a house with a skeleton

UN Hariri killing charges. Should sperm donors be recognised? Royalties for rock stars

English courts sentence rioters; India corruption protests; and Glasgow's zombie invasion.

Fresh phone hacking claims; Indian hunger striker freed; how did Butch Cassidy really die?

Indian authorities detain anti-corruption activist and new love letters from Mrs Simpson.