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http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - 11/21/09 04:05:36 - 12/30/06 04:07:11
15:07 GMT, Sunday, 8 November 2009
President Barack Obama praises the House's approval of landmark health reforms and expects the Senate to follow suit.
At least 12 people, including an anti-Taliban mayor, die in a suicide attack near Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar. El Salvador declares an emergency in five regions after at least 40 people die in floods in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
Gavin Hewitt on the night in Berlin when history was made How Pakistan allows the Afghan Taliban to thrive The enduring delight of travelling on European trains
Britain's fallen are remembered across the UK and Afghanistan, as another British soldier is killed in the conflict. Police are to examine social networking sites as part of investigations into the murder of a mother-of-nine from Cornwall.
The big fight: how David beat Goliath How can drug-taking be stopped, asks Clive James Remembering WWII victims of Soviet labour camps