A look at the family connections in Gordon Brown's first government.

BBC Europe Editor Mark Mardell on the EU's failures in the field of freedom of movement and students' spirits in Venice.

Few issues in are so sensitive as the position of the Christians among the Muslim majority.

BBC Africa Live asks what it will take to rebuild Somalia after 13 years of civil war.

A reporter in the rebel-held city of Falluja in Iraq tells BBC News of the mood in the besieged stronghold.

Two months after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, the new US administrator in Iraq faces a daunting set of challenges, writes Roger Hardy.

The creation of Israel had international approval, but violence preceded the birth of the new country, creating the tensions which have troubled the region since.

BBC News Online's Catherine Miller speaks to young residents of Gibraltar about their experiences of growing up and their attitude s to Spain.

BBC Moscow correspondent Andrew Harding looks at the impact of the deadly shooting spree which left eight Armenian politicians dead.

Delhi correspondent, Andrew Whitehead, has become the proud father of a baby boy. According to the Indian custom, eunuchs, known as hijras, came to bestow a blessing on the new-born child.

The creation of Israel had international approval, but violence preceded the birth of the new country, creating the tensions which have troubled the region since.