An Israeli teenager is arrested by armed police after masquerading as a militant in the hope of top marks on a school research project.

Binocular vision can be a serious problem - and may be more common than thought.

BBC Five Live's Stephen Chittenden reports from Alaska on people's attitude to polar bears, now listed as a threatened species.

BBC environment correspondent Richard Black joins a team looking and listening for beaked whales - probably the least understood large mammals on Earth.

Scientists are attempting to find out what is behind whale strandings.

Police on the Isle of Man urge car owners to be more security aware after a spate of thefts.

A selection of striking images from around the world on 10 September 2008.

A band of volunteers will be wade through mud to plant reeds to create a more attractive environment for birds.

A man wearing no clothes who appeared along a Fife beach is sought by police.

A scientist who used binoculars to spy on children at a primary school close to where he lived in Devon is jailed for three years.

A new class of cosmic object has been found by a 25-year-old Dutch schoolteacher through an online astronomy project.

Torchwood star John Barrowman has known he was gay since he was nine. But was he born that way or did his upbringing have something to do with it? Here, he explains why he set out to try to solve this mystery, for the BBC One show The Making of Me.

The first Test at Lord's finishes in a draw after South Africa close 393-3, 47 runs ahead.

Kevin Pietersen hits a superb century as England fight back on day one at Lord's.

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer win their Wimbledon semi-finals to set up a meeting in Sunday's final.

Two-time champion Serena Williams' beats unseeded Zheng Jie to join her sister Venus in the Wimbledon final.

Five-time champion Roger Federer beats unseeded Mario Ancic in straight sets to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals.

Andy Murray is on court on a men's quarter-final day at Wimbledon which has been affected by rain.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is facing a crucial period in trying to keep the country on his side ahead of local elections in November.

Sir Patrick Moore nominates an amateur astronomer from Gloucester to have an asteroid named after him.