BBC World Service - Newshour

04/01/2011 (1400 GMT)

Senior Pakistani politician shot dead; President Bashir in South Sudan; Australian floods

Ivorian Diplomatic Deadlock? Jerry Brown takes on California; world's longest-running soap

Gbagbo given ultimatum; rising floodwaters in Queensland, and deadly Japanese rice cakes

Egypt Christians react to bombing; Pakistan coalition splits; and the US 'Gorgon Stare'

IDF responds to protestor death; Australia's floods worsen and Spain stubs out

Car bomb attack on Coptic church in Egypt;nocturnal sounds of Baghdad;big stories of 2011

A bombing near an army barracks in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. And the end of year quiz.

African migrant hostages in Sinai; Australian floods; Evelyn Glennie on the aural world

Jailed Russian oligarch gets 7 more years, and the wider impact of the BP oil spill

Khordorkovsky sentenced; reforming the Taliban and the grandmother turned superhero