BBC News Investors fear there may be more trouble ahead for Greece Late on Friday night the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) declared Greece's latest deal with its private lenders to be a "credit event".

North Korea has suffered persistent food shortages since a famine in the 1990s Envoys from the United States and North Korea are meeting in Beijing to finalise details of a food aid deal.

Peter Robinson attacks the 'negative media' The Northern Ireland media's "daily diet of negativity" and "trumpeting of bad news" is damaging the economy, the first minister has claimed.

This article presents the paradox of plenty in the Equatorial Guinea, a small country off West Africa which has recently struck oil and which is now being cited as a textbook case of the resource curse.