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The BBC's Martha Kearney considers the position of under-fire Commons Speaker Michael Martin.

Worcestershire give paceman Matt Mason a new, dual contract that will see him combine playing with coaching.

Key facts, figures and notes on the media

How Scots have done business in India - and won

Steve Harmison takes three wickets as Sri Lanka reach 147-4 on an emotional first day of the final Test against England in Galle.

Bolton win at Red Star Belgrade while Tottenham draw at Anderlecht in Thursday's Uefa Cup group games.

Actor David Schwimmer talks about his cinematic directorial debut Run, Fatboy, Run - which took three years to complete.

This week the Magazine reported on why the Royal Family changed its name to Windsor. Here are 25 of your own family name changes.

Nine decades ago the Royal Family switched to an English-sounding name because of anti-German feeling, as did some of their subjects. Is there an echo of this predicament today?

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a "brilliance that isn't there", says Stephen Fry. So is a British accent the route to success in the United States?

It's World Book Day, a time to promote the enjoyment of reading. But if you haven't got time to pore over the 1,500 pages of Tolstoy's War and Peace, how easy is it to feign knowledge? A bluffer takes on an expert...

The name of Northern Ireland's second city is to remain Londonderry, a High Court judge decides.

An Indian firm's takeover of a business services company in Peterborough is slowly changing workers' lives.

A judge is asked to settle the row over whether Northern Ireland's second city should be called Londonderry or Derry.

The first United Nations' Internet Governance Forum opens in Athens on Monday. But what will it do?

The 1857 Indian mutiny was inspired more by religion than anger at British economic policy, author William Dalrymple tells the BBC.

To some it's a self-help film, a ballad of the outsider and a paean to tolerance, but why do people continue to be obsessed with the story of a singing nun who escapes the Nazis?

Louis Armstrong has one - as does John Lennon. Bob Hope was jealous of John Wayne because he had one. Now the late soccer star George Best will get one - an airport named after him.

As they meet in Wrexham, Lib Dems aim to put recent turmoil behind them, says BBC Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick.

A row over Gaelic threatens to split locals in an area known as the 'garden of Skye'.

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