Tony Blair expresses "deep sorrow" for Britain's role in the slave trade but stops short of demands for a full apology.

Peter Pan in Scarlet is the latest in a long and varied collection of literary sequels.

Charles Kennedy wins a standing ovation from Lib Dem activists in his first big speech since quitting as party leader.

A market trader who fought a long legal battle to sell goods only in imperial measures has died.

The principal victim and only superpower has been the first to recognise the nature of the new world and the invisible enemy

In the last of a three-part series, BBC News Online's environment correspondent Alex Kirby weighs up the claims made in Bjorn Lomborg's controversial new book.

Israel has blamed "deliberate consistent incitement" by the Palestinian leadership for the murder of two boys from a Jewish settlement.

The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party provokes outrage with a sermon calling for the extermination of Arabs.

The Colombian President has ordered his forces to fight right-wing paramilitary groups which, he says, have been murdering innocent people, apparently in revenge for killings by left-wing groups.