selected BBC World Service Podcasts

Karzai forms Afghan Peace Council; protests in France against the expulsion of Roma; and a new biography of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

French Roma demos; New Zealand earthquake; Blair interview, Darfur attacks, new Morrissey controversy

Tony Blair tells Newshour about the threat from radical Islam; North Korea's next possible leader; and the talking stamp

Match-fixing in international sport; Portugal's paedophile scandal, and Juliette Binoche vs Gerard Depardieu.

Israel and the Palestinians talk peace in Washington; Afghanistan's banking crisis; and do advances in physics make God unnecessary?

Hamas on the attack of two Israelis today and their reaction to the first face to face negotiations in two years and the ex-coach of the Pakistan cricket team calls for the Chairman Ijaz Butt to resign.

Can President Obama break the deadlock between the Israelis and the Palestinians? And Jermaine Jackson in The Gambia

Tony Blair admits in his memoirs that he did not expect what he described as the nightmare in Iraq after the invasion; the end of the US combat mission in Iraq is marked; and British doctors warn against foreign stem-cell treatments.

Obama marks the end of combat ops in Iraq, and could the latest Israeli deaths threaten the revived peace process?

US forces officially end their combat role in Iraq; what were the two Yemeni men flying to Schipol trying to conceal? And Iceland's plan for a global 'Top Gun' academy.

The UN climate change panel is told it needs fundamental change. Has it strayed from scientific fact to advocacy? Following the latest allegations linking cricket and a gambling scam, we debate whether there are any clean sports left. And what's driving South African baboons to drink?

Soul searching in Pakistan as the national team reels from scandal; a gunman goes on a shooting spree in Bratislava and in South Africa are the government and the unions on the verge of a deal?

Pakistani cricket - a British newspaper says it has caught some players helping illegal betting rings - police have arrested a man the paper filmed predicting what would happen on the pitch. Hurricane Katrina 5 years on, and Israeli artists boycott performance in Jewish settlement.

Filmmaker Huma Beg witnesses the scale of the flooding around Thatta near the Pakistan coast. We profile Mohammed al Baradei the man who many want to be the next Egyptian President. The British newspaper story that alleges bribery and corruption in Pakistani cricket.

After the floods, the disease - the UN warns that thousands of child victims of Pakistan's floods could die. Conservatives rally in Washington - but why did they choose the anniversary and the place of Martin Luther King's historic speech?

Pakistan floods threaten Thatta, Bradford protests, and Afghan attacks.

We analyse Ben Bernanke's downbeat assessment of the US economy. The looming crisis in Niger. The Kanji characterisation crisis and and UVB-76 speaks.

The research organisation Iraq Body Count calls for a full judicial inquiry into the number of people killed in the Iraq War; a new constitution for Kenya - the Sudanese president joins the party in defiance of the International Criminal Court, and the last of our 'Striking a Chord' series with Benin's Angelique Kidjo.

South Africa's government and unions are still in deadlock after more than a week -- we hear from both parties. Nigeria tells investors its electricity generating business is for sale.

A suspended jail sentence for the German singer who hid the fact she was HIV-positive; a month into the flood disaster in Pakistan, a warning that the Taliban are planning to attack aid workers, and do your doctor's religious beliefs have a bearing on how long you live?