It's the time of year when news of high-achieving children, exotic holidays and pay rises wriggle through letter-boxes inside a Christmas card. So is the annual round-robin letter a welcome update from friends or an unsolicited irritation?

Underwear model Karolina Kurkova has no belly button. Is a barely-there navel for cosmetic or medical reasons?

Liverpool go top with victory over Chelsea, Harry Redknapp's Tottenham defeat Bolton as his old club Portsmouth draw with Fulham, and Arsenal beat West Ham.

On a packed commuter train, passengers rarely give their fellow travellers more than a passing glance. But Alison Rich is not just another face in the crowd - what is the impact of facial disfigurement on an otherwise normal life?

Media in the US, including bloggers and conventional newspapers, comment on John McCain's Republican convention speech.

Your News met Malcolm Boura who thinks if we had more repect and awareness of our bodies then we there wouldn't be some much teenage pregnancy and obesity

Investigators are uncovering evidence of war-time executions by US-backed forces in South Korea, the BBC's John Sudworth reports.

Profile of Gary McKinnon, a British hacker that could be extradited to the US.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband says the UK will continue to ratify the EU Treaty, rejected by Irish voters.

There are some who see a cycle of boom and bust as inevitable. But as Britain and much of the Western world faces up to a downturn, it's easy to look back into the past and find nasty decades.

A High Court decision on whether MPs expenses should be fully disclosed has been deferred to a later date.

Women who helped pioneer the youth fashions of the 1960s find there is little suitable to wear now they are older.

Images from stories that have made the news across England this week.

An actor whose naked image was used on posters to publicise an opera says he feels "exploited" by the advertising.

The Royal Opera House says it will stop using a poster after an actor complained it had airbrushed out his manhood.

People in Guernsey are asked to help choose pictures to be printed on tobacco packets as part of new laws showing smoking's effects on health.

Novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series of books, has died at the age of 82.

The popularity of cosmetic surgery is continues to soar with the UK market expected to top £1bn next year.

A look at what is making the headlines in Monday's morning newspapers.

Girls as young as seven believe being slim and attractive means you are happy and popular.