As the global financial problems continue, the car industry is suffering badly, with new car sales down 36.8% in November. But how in the current climate could anybody be persuaded to buy a new car?

As you decide whether or not to have children, should you take the world's increasing stack of environmental woes into account?

As the man who signed Madonna, The Ramones and Talking Heads, Seymour Stein is one of the most influential record executives and talent spotters of the last 40 years.

Messages are beamed to a planet 20 light years from Earth in the hope they will reach intelligent alien life.

The transfer window closes, with Man City swooping to sign Robinho and Man Utd sealing a last-gasp deal for Dimitar Berbatov.

Phillips Idowu has to settle for silver in the triple jump after sailors Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson win Britain's 17th gold and David Davies picks up a silver in the 10km swim.

Britain's women's hockey team beat New Zealand after defeat for Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson in badminton and an Olympic record for Becky Adlington on a mixed day for Team GB.

In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But is there still anybody out there who doesn't believe the earth is a globe?

Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Simpson said it doesn't look like they will be signing anybody today unless there's a dramatic turn around of events.

Foreign workers at UK airports are employed without mandatory criminal records checks, BBC Newsnight learns.

A man who was attacked on the way home from bingo is afraid to leave his home and feared he would die.

The price of a black and white TV licence is about to go up, but is anybody still watching in monochrome?

Gordon Brown's ministerial standards adviser tells MPs he will not be anybody's "footstool or patsy".

"Don't ask me for any impersonations. I don't want to offend anybody"

Residents ask for a gun amnesty after a 17-year-old boy died when he was shot with an air rifle.

A man rescues four children from a house fire in Penzance and says he was just doing what anybody would.

One couple has spent 22 years staying in a Travelodge, but why would anybody want to live in a hotel permanently?

One of literature's great conspiracy theories has new impetus with Sir Derek Jacobi questioning whether William Shakespeare of Stratford really wrote the works associated with him. So what are the arguments for and against this man really being the Bard?

"I don't think anybody else really expects much from me"