Top Five BBC News Items
'Hard days ahead' in Afghanistan... (Mon, 21 May 2012 00:10:28 GMT)President Obama tells a Nato summit there are "hard days ahead" in Afghanistan as the alliance prepares to withdraw troops at the end of 2014.
Nationalist Nikolic in Serbia win... (Sun, 20 May 2012 21:13:39 GMT)
Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic is elected president of Serbia beating incumbent Boris Tadic in a run-off vote, and vowing to stay on the EU path.
Sun starts 'ring of fire' eclipse... (Sun, 20 May 2012 23:11:17 GMT)
An annular eclipse, in which the Moon does not fully block out the light from the Sun, begins across east Asia, and is due to reach the western US later.
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead... (Sun, 20 May 2012 17:32:57 GMT)
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies at home in Tripoli, nearly three years after he was controversially freed from a Scottish prison.
Italy quake victims given shelter... (Sun, 20 May 2012 23:09:19 GMT)
Thousands of people left homeless by a powerful earthquake in northern Italy spend the night in shelters as aftershocks continue in the region.