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Actress Rosamund Pike and broadcaster Michael Buerk are named among the judges for the 2008 Costa Book Award.
As a party of ANC dissidents is formally launched, BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut looks at the background to the rift that cleaved apart South Africa's ruling party.
Male writers dominate this year's shortlist for the novel prize at this year's Costa Book of the Awards.
A postmaster is to concentrate on a new career as a children's author when his sub post office closes.
A stretch of the A38 in Gloucester is closed after a fire broke out at a scrapyard.
Russia's position in its conflict with Georgia found little support among other ex-Soviet states, the BBC's Bridget Kendall argues.
Dr Tom Pike, from Imperial College London, shares his experiences of being part of the Phoenix Mars probe team.
A six-year-old Hampshire boy wins a competition to name an Antarctic iceberg.
BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary.
George W Bush sets out his stall for 2008 but admits to some unfinished business, says the BBC's Kim Ghattas.
Gwent Police try to trace a driver whose vehicle hit and injured a boy and then failed to stop.
A couple from Essex who kept birds of prey in "filth" are given suspended jail sentences.
A court in Australia finds a police officer not guilty over the death of an Aboriginal man in 2004.
An Australian judge urges calm in the trial of a policeman for manslaughter of an Aboriginal man.
The first round in the 2007 French presidential election is one of the least predictable ever, Caroline Wyatt writes.
A Devon celebrity chef announces the name of the school he is going to adopt for a year.
BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell shadows the leader of the UK Independence Party on a trip to Romania.
David Willey reports on the opera dramas which pre-date the latest scandal at La Scala.
Eight people are rescued from flats after a blaze breaks out in the shop below.
Mike Newell's modern day views on women, while Mourinho has another pop at Fergie
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