The US central bank is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25%.

Your comments on Mark Mardell's diary on a call from the European Parliament to ban cars that go more than 100mph.

More bicycles than cars are being bought in Australia, as people take to two-wheels to be green and get fit.

A driver suffers head wounds when he is hit with a metal bar in a road rage attack in Barnsley.

People in Guernsey can now sit on new granite benches, installed in the St Peter Port harbour area.

The Da Vinci Code is one of the greatest phenomena in the history of fiction publishing and the juggernaut rolls on with the arrival of the movie version. But why are we so profoundly obsessed with a thriller about the Church?

The housing market in New Orleans is a perfect illustration of how this is still a city of two different worlds, writes Matt Davis.

In political terms 2005 must go down as George Bush's most difficult year in office, writes the BBC's Matt Frei.

UK newspaper critics give their verdict on the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

The BBC's Adam Brookes followed President Bush as he dashed through four swing states key to his re-election hopes.

A South African health official accuses women of lying that they have been raped in order to get free Aids drugs.

Grammy-winning US singer Alicia Keys plays a concert in the House of Commons, as an MP tries to bring the inner city to the corridors of power.

Critics said a pop concert in the House of Commons 'cheapened' its reputation - many who heard the set disagreed.

What the papers say about David Byrne's new album, Look Into The Eyeball.

Two veteran planes have collided at an air show in the United States with one of the planes exploding. Both pilots survived.