The BBC's Jonathan head looks at how Thai anti-government protesters were able to occupy Bangkok's airports.

With redundancies rising and job vacancies shrinking, unemployment is back in the headlines. But for millions it never went away. As part of a series on Britain's jobless, one family explains how and why lack of work has touched their lives.

People in Wales are more "lonely" compared to previous decades, new research suggests.

A pensioner whose family live as far afield as New Zealand is using technology to stay in touch.

Two men and a woman have been charged with supplying heroin to a man found dead in a town centre.

A letter sent from Edinburgh on Armistice Day which celebrates the end of World War I is released for the first time.

We all need someone to look up to - even those we place on pedestals have heroes of their own, says Laurie Taylor, in his weekly column for the Magazine.

The family of a 15-year-old boy seriously injured in an attack in Blackburn say they have been left devastated.

The looming US elections and the fallout from the BBC's Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross saga dominates the Sunday newspapers.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he did not know he had an Kenyan aunt living illegally in the US.

More than 150 mourners pay their respects at the Sussex funeral of a mother and daughter killed in flash floods in Spain.

The political row over George Osborne's conversations with a Russian billionaire in Corfu has highlighted a significant side issue - is it OK to reveal what you hear at private parties?

Hundreds of Chagos islanders have lost the right to return to their homeland in the Indian Ocean after Law Lords gave the final judgement in a long-running legal case.

In 1908 Samuel Franklin Cody made the first powered flight in Britain. His great-grandson John Simpson marks the event's centenary.

Presenter Noel Edmonds still has a TV licence, despite him claiming he had cancelled it, TV Licensing says.

Two BBC Scotland reporters try to get by on food produced within their own regions.

Presenter Noel Edmonds stops paying his TV licence, saying the BBC is overly "threatening" to those who evade the fee.

A mother who scandalised a jury when she pulled two fingers from her handbag during her trial is jailed for a tax credit fraud of nearly £1m.

A taste for television hospital drama might make you more fearful about your own health, say psychologists.

BBC Scotland political reporter John Knox sniffs the air as the Scottish Parliament returns after the summer break