Iran has a vibrant blogging community, despite government attempts to regulate the internet, reports the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran.

Stars swapped the red carpet for a green one made of recycled plastic bottles as the Tokyo International Film Festival got under way in Japan.

Pictures of the latest exhibition at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall - and some of the previous installations in the cavernous gallery.

Motherwell and Nancy spirits differ ahead of their Uefa Cup tie

Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett makes his West End debut in a stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Rain Man.

School days are said to be the happiest days of your life, but for many people nothing could be further from the truth.

A Fringe show which takes place in a caravan recreates the effects of last year's floods in England.

Time is called on a family of clock winders after 150 years on health and safety grounds.

Spaniard Carlos Sastre wins the 2008 Tour de France by 58 seconds from Australia's Cadel Evans.

The ninth series of Big Brother draws an audience of 5.4 million on its opening night.

A comedian and a DJ are among the 16 contestants waiting to to enter Channel 4's Big Brother house.

Big Brother housemates will have to grow their own food this year, the show's producers say.

The European Space Agency is doing its first major trawl for recruits for more than a decade. An expected 50,000 applicants will be whittled down to four astronauts destined to live on the International Space Station. What sort of person will make the ultimate journey?

BBC environment correspondent Sarah Mukherjee witnesses the opening of the Svalbard "doomsday" seed bank.

The Victorian Society is celebrating 50 years of trying to save the UK's 19th Century buildings. We love Victorian architecture now, but once upon a time their public buildings were being listed for demolition and their terraced houses were being gutted. What changed?

Pop music is back in fashion, if the Brit award judges are to be believed. Find out who the leading contenders are and listen to clips.

The BBC's Fergal Keane finds tribal tensions between the poor in Nairobi's Kibera slum is being fuelled by the country's political situation.

What happens if you are left in the dark in solitary confinement for days on end?

The Queen was "concerned" about Princess Diana's relationship with Dodi Al Fayed, an inquest hears.

Cardiff City manager Dave Jones rubbishes suggestions his players will be intimidated by the claustrophobic atmosphere at Chasetown.