BBC Scotland news website readers keep a diary of their spending across a week to let us know their views on the cost of living.

Age old problems and issues link today's credit crunched Scotland with the 1929 Great Crash.

Key facts, figures and notes on the media

Humans are using too much nitrogen, and leaving so much of it that the natural world is struggling to cope.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska event, the biggest space impact of modern times.

There are some who see a cycle of boom and bust as inevitable. But as Britain and much of the Western world faces up to a downturn, it's easy to look back into the past and find nasty decades.

From 1948, Palestinian refugees in the Shatila camp started to spill over onto a plot of land known as West Shatila.

Sixty years ago, the Diab family swapped the simple life of Palestinian peasants in western Galilee for an existence of displacement, dispossession and exile.

Palestinian refugee Muhammad Diab has has spent most of his life in Shatila refugee camp in southern Beirut, Lebanon.

A developer is urging European Commissioners to back a major wind farm development.

BBC world affairs correspondent Mark Doyle takes a tour through the ruined capital of Somalia, Mogadishu.

Aid agencies are to meet the Somali prime minister to try to improve aid deliveries to the war-torn country.

Plans for a major shopping and leisure complex on Anglesey go on display to the public.

One of Western Europe's earliest known urban societies may have brought destruction on itself, a study suggests.

The number of women becoming priests in the Church of England outnumbered men last year for the first time.

Two major landowners agree to defer rents for tenant sheep farmers in recognition of financial problems.

Key facts and figures about the state of Nebraska ahead of the 2008 US elections.

The UK's population will swell to 75m by the middle of the century, a demographics expert predicts.

Saddam Hussein's cousin and two others are sentenced to death in Iraq for the murder of Kurds in a 1988 campaign.

US rubber company Firestone denies allegations that it is polluting a river near its plant in Liberia.