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29/04/2010
Fears of an ecological disaster as huge oil spill nears US coast.
30/04/2010
US urges BP to do more to tackle oil spill, and who owns ancient Jewish archives of Iraq?
Oil spill reaches US coast. Plus - panic in Portugal and the return of Tony Blair.
01/05/2010
Arizona's immigration law, the arguments for and against, plus nationalisation in Bolivia.
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
02/05/2010
A Greek austerity plan; the creeping oil spill off the US coast; Somali pirates retreat
Times Square bomb attempt, Greek austerity and naked art
03/05/2010
The only surviving gunman of 2008 Mumbai attacks is found guilty. And a hole in 1 at 90.
04/05/2010
New York car bomb investigation, new attempts to stem the Louisiana oil slick.
Man arrested over New York bomb. And are postal votes opening the UK election to fraud?
05/05/2010
Greek protest deaths; impending slick disaster in louisiana; not so silent electric cars
Greek protests; end of the UK elex campaign; Pakistani minister on the NY bomber
06/05/2010
Nigeria's new President is sworn-in following the death of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
A new Nigerian president is sworn in, and the political fallout of the Gulf oil spill.
UK Election Special 2010
After an extraordinary election in the UK delivered a hung parliament, we ask, what next?
08/05/2010
Saving Greece - and the Euro; cooking up a new UK government; a new owner for Harrods
09/05/2010
Britons await a new government; an Iraqi's sporting dream; what's the point of philosophy?
10/05/2010
More twists in the UK's inconclusive election & the latest nominee to the US Supreme Court
The EU comes up with a trillion dollar rescue plan for the euro. But will it be enough?
11/05/2010
Four days after the British election, and still no sign of a new government.
12/05/2010
First day of a new government and a new kind of government for the UK.