Clinton urges new Mid-East talks

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Israeli-Palestinian peace talks must resume "as soon as possible".

UK government to set up bank chains

Three new High Street banking chains are to be created by the UK government by breaking up state-rescued banks.

Black or white?

Brazil's university race quotas polarise nation

World role?

Britain's choices on power and influencing the US

In pictures

India's massacre of the Sikhs after Indira Gandhi death