Ask a little girl what her favourite colour is, and chances are she'll shout "pink". Toy aisles and clothing rails are packed with variations on this shade, but is nothing but pink for girls harmful?

US actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcome the arrival of their second daughter.

A British missionary couple jailed for sedition in Gambia send their young daughter back to the UK.

The eldest daughter of Pakistan's assassinated former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, writes a rap song expressing grief over her death.

A man who admitted seriously injuring his baby daughter is given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years.

US President-elect Barack Obama's daughters Malia and Sasha begin their first day at school in Washington DC.

A man who stabbed a new father to death as he celebrated his daughter's birth is jailed for 10 years.

A woman reported missing from her Northumberland home, is found safe and well with her baby daughter.

A mother whose daughter died on the railway in Kent calls for more safety awareness after another teenager dies in Sussex.

Parents pay tribute to their daughter who died after a new year car crash, the day following her 17th birthday.

As 2008 draws to a close, a look at some of the stories that proved the most popular of the year, from the light-hearted to the tragic.

The mother of a Derbyshire showjumper murdered by her ex-fiance makes a plea for donations to a fund set up in her daughter's memory.

A woman appeals for help to find three people who ran away after their car collided with a bus shelter, leaving her daughter critically ill.

Sara Payne, who has tirelessly campaigned to keep children safe since the murder of her daughter eight years ago, has been made an MBE in the New Year Honours.

The 18-year-old daughter of former White House hopeful Sarah Palin has given birth to a son, Tripp, reports say.

An Austrian woman allegedly held as a sex slave by her father for 24 years leaves the clinic where she had been since her release.

A man is convicted of fathering two children by his daughter while subjecting his family to years of sexual abuse.

The Duchess of York issues an appeal for help in tracing her daughter Princess Beatrice's missing dog, Max.

A man whose daughter died in the Lockerbie bombing has spoken at a service marking its 20th anniversary.

The parents of Madeleine McCann have issued a Christmas video of their daughter, including a plea for her return.