A retired Devon surgeon arrives in Lebanon after his ship is confronted by the Israeli navy while delivering medical supplies to Gaza.

A woman is winched aboard an RAF rescue helicopter after slipping down an icy mountainside.

A sailor injured aboard a cargo vessel hundreds of miles out to sea is recovering in hospital after being airlifted to safety.

The US Missile Defense Agency has test-fired a laser weapon system housed aboard a 747 plane.

A five-month-old baby has been christened on board a lifeboat on the coast of North Tyneside.

The space shuttle Endeavour is delivering a urine recycling device to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

An inferno kills 20 people, most of them elderly, aboard a coach on a motorway near the north German city of Hanover.

Rival Somali pirates shot at each other on board a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with 33 tanks, a maritime group says.

William Carson, the grandson of former champion jockey Willie, wins wins the Ayr Gold Cup aboard Regal Parade.

More than 1.4m cigarettes are seized after being smuggled into the UK aboard a ship at Hull docks.

The body of a man in his 50s is discovered on a yacht which ran aground near Looe.

The Top Gear presenters thunder across London's Tower Bridge aboard a tank to launch their new world tour.

Extra buses are being laid on to help ferry real ale lovers between six rural pubs taking part in a beer festival.

Liz Kalaugher reports from the High Arctic as she travels aboard the Amundsen, a Canadian Coast Guard vessel. She has joined an expedition investigating the effects of climate change off Banks Island.

BBC Spotlight's Andy Breare and cameraman Geoff Burrell are hoping to finish their trans-Atlantic voyage aboard the Nova Scotia Clipper by Sunday, even if it is in last place.

BBC Spotlight's Andy Breare thinks back to the days before technology and tinned tuna as he sails across the Atlantic aboard the Nova Scotia Clipper.

BBC Spotlight's Andy Breare and cameraman Geoff Burrell get to grips with cooking aboard a racing yacht in the mid-Atlantic.

Discovery blasts off for the space station with the hub of a Japanese science lab, and a new toilet pump, aboard.

A cargo plane slides off the runway at Brussels Airport and splits in two, slightly injuring four people aboard.

Is there a doctor aboard? A ferry captain finds 18 offering assistance when a passenger falls ill.