Actor Patrick Swayze, who has pancreatic cancer, admits in a US TV interview he may survive only two years.

Macworld attendees in San Francisco voice concern for Steve Jobs's health amid the traditional buzz about the event so closely linked to Apple.

Actor Patrick Swayze quashes speculation that he is close to death, calling tabloid reports "lies and false information".

Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran says Sri Lanka's government is dreaming if it expects outright military victory.

The last will of an Essex man who left everything to his Filipina girlfriend just before he died is contested.

We take a look at over a century of Wales v NZ rivalry

Work is nearly complete on an embroidery depicting the life of a Hereford saint.

Hua Guofeng, who succeeded Mao Zedong for a short period in 1976, has died in Beijing aged 87, report state media.

A profile of Hua Guofeng, briefly Mao's successor as chairman of China's Communist party, who has died aged 87.

Longer life spans and changing attitudes towards care and hospital treatment mean attitudes towards dying and euthanasia are complicated, writes Katharine Whitehorn.

The new London mayor, Boris Johnson, has been accused of lacking experience and political nous, but he has always boasted one qualification for government - a good grasp of Latin and Greek. So just what are the lessons he will have learned from antiquity?

The widow of murdered ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko urges the UK to hold a full inquest.

Fog, pavements and depression. The colour grey has dreary associations but a new exhibition recasts this ashen shade as one that suggests an intelligent perspective on the complexities of life.

Could a German mayor be close to solving the mystery of the Amber Room, a priceless chamber seized from Russia by the Nazis, asks the BBC's Stephanie Holmes.

England end day three of the third Test needing 416 to avoid an innings defeat to Sri Lanka.

The radioactive substance used to poison Alexander Litvinenko is highly likely to have come from Russia, a lawyer says.

PM John Howard's plan for a vote to recognise Aborigines in Australia's constitution has a mixed response.

BBC Washington correspondent Matt Frei reflects on the troubled situation in Burma, raised by US President Bush at the UN.

BBC News Online profiles Aung San Suu Kyi, who has become an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears in his first taped TV interview for more than three months.