BBC News Updated every minute of every day

watch One-Minute World News
News Front Page
Africa
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Middle East
South Asia
UK
Business
Health
Science & Environment
Technology
Entertainment
Also in the news
-----------------
Video and Audio
-----------------
Programmes
Have Your Say
In Pictures
Country Profiles
Special Reports

Related BBC sites

Languages
Americas

Page last updated at 13:14 GMT, Monday, 7 December 2009

Morales supporters in La Paz, 6 Dec
Morales claims Bolivia poll win
President Evo Morales claims victory in Bolivia's election, with exit polls suggesting a resounding win over conservative rivals.
Wrestlers' poll battle
Coca casts shadow on election
Profile: Evo Morales

Hugo Chavez Chavez aide resigns over scandal
A minister in President Hugo Chavez's government resigns after his brother is arrested over banking irregularities.

Kidney transplant 'Risky' kidney transplant success
Surgeons report success with a controversial transplant technique using donor kidneys containing cancerous masses.


VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
President Barack Obama World leaders in a personal light

One-minute World News
Barack Obama US unemployment rate eases

listen Radio news summary

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Barack Obama is greeted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Turkish parliament (6 April 2009) Balancing act
Can Obama still count on Turkey as a US ally?
A man speaks by mobile next to the body of Guatemalan bus driver Jorge Ortiz , killed in 2007 Pay up or die
Fear stalks Guatemala City's bus drivers
People accompany the car carrying the remains of Victor Jara in Santiago In pictures
Thousands attend reburial of Chilean singer Victor Jara

MORE FROM AMERICAS
Obama honours Bruce Springsteen
Mexico gang head dies in shootout
US unemployment rate eases to 10%
Cage wins UN humanitarian award
Hall of Fame Annex NYC to close
Obama to attend climate forum end
Guatemalan civil war conviction
BUSINESS
GM plans new small car for India
Bing search site suffers outage
Bernanke defends his Fed record
FEATURES
Yosemite learns to love forest fires
Fire-proof future?
Listening in
Hello Hollywood

COUNTRY PROFILES

A GUIDE TO THE AMERICAS

 

 

Compiled by BBC Monitoring

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Gilberto Silva Mixed fortunes
Tim Vickery on the World Cup draw for Brazil and Co.
Brazilian UN peacekeeper, Haiti Haiti's slums
The poorest nation in the Americas in sound and pictures
Test launch of a US Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (image: Vandenberg air force base) Sorting out Start
US and Russia reach fine points of new nuclear treaty

OTHER TOP STORIES
Obama rallies senators on health
US rejects Afghan exit criticism
Thousands attend Jara's reburial
Archbishop fears gay vote impact
Senator 'nominated girlfriend'
Knox verdict 'pleases' UK family
ALSO IN THE NEWS
Red balloon (image: Darpa) US balloon hunt tests internet accuracy

Elvis Presley Who snubbed Elvis back in 1974?

MARDELL'S AMERICA
Mark Mardell Political analysis and a British perspective on life in the US

'No Afghanistan withdrawal in 2011'
Selling Obama's Afghan strategy on Capitol Hill
Rhetoric of reassurance
MATT FREI'S DIARY
Matt Frei Obama's diplomatic dance with America's banker

Sniper denied victims' families a story
SPORT HEADLINES
American golfer Jim Furyk Furyk pips McDowell to take Chevron title


MOST POPULAR STORIES

From Americas in the past week
WEATHER

 


ELSEWHERE ON THE BBC

BBC World Service - African Footballer of the Year.


Skip to top

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Explore the BBC

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.
Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific