Actor Sam Bottoms, best known for his roles in Apocalypse Now and The Last Picture Show, dies of brain cancer at the age of 53.

A huge particle accelerator experiment is about to start and a tiny group of people believe it could spell the end of the world. But why are we so obsessed with the possibility of apocalypse?

Changes to the benefit system may wipe out hundreds of post offices in Wales, Lib Dems claim.

Brian Walden examines a list of a 12 books that changed the world.

Environment campaigners call for more public transport to prevent Kent's roads "grinding to a halt".

Zombie sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse goes straight to the top of the north American box office chart.

People in Ath struggle to comprehend the magnitude of the blast near their little town, reports BBC News Online's Alexandra Fouché.

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Sunday's newspapers continue to be dominated by the ongoing crisis in Iraq.

A monologue from war movie Apocalypse Now is voted the best speech in cinema history in a poll.

Apocalypse Now star Robert Duvall is honoured in Hollywood after 40 years in film.

Eyewitnesses give BBC News Online their dramatic accounts of the fires sweeping across the south of France.

Experts in Tanzania warn most of the country's water could be contaminated within five years.

Francis Ford Coppola's anti-Vietnam war classic is voted the greatest movie of the past 25 years by top film-makers and critics.

Newsnight Review discuss apocalypse Britain with the new horror thriller "28 Days Later."

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The scale of the French team's defeat still has not sunk in, the French press says.

Send us your views on the new version of classic film Apocalypse Now.

A new longer edition of film classic Apocalypse Now is a richer, bolder and more insightful work.

Actor Joe Gooch writes about his upwards fight for success in BBC News Online's Big Break Diaries.