A family's everyday porcelain bowl sells for £203,000 at auction after it turns out to be a very rare 15th Century Chinese dish.

Call centres are now part of everyday life, so what makes a good one and who works there?

The NHS must be more innovative in its use of everyday technology to improve care to patients, experts say.

Government statisticians compile a picture of everyday life in Northern Ireland in the past year.

BBC News looks at life in Iraq through the eyes of five different people.

Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Frank Hamilton has attracted attention with acoustic tales of everyday life.

A young Zimbabwean professional, living and working in Harare, recounts her challenges trying to lead a normal life.

Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, known for using odd and everyday articles in his work, dies at the age of 82.

The pioneers of ultrasound recall their work and marvel about how it is now an everyday diagnostic tool.

A girl with severe eczema and allergies to everyday substances can now be taught in a "sterile" room at school.

A tale of everyday priestly folk inspires a pilgrimage of the faithful to the west of Ireland.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes makes a gloomy prediction for Russia's car industry as he travels along the Volga river to sample everyday life in Russia.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes sets off in a Volga car along the Volga river to sample everyday life in President Putin's Russia.

South Africans struggle through everyday chaos caused by ongoing blackouts, writes Peter Biles.

Owning too much stuff drives us into a spiral of sadness, says a new book. Or is the real problem "misery-creep", where everyday unhappiness is being rebranded as depression?

Some see them as a joke, a few even take them at their word, but to most of us spam e-mails that promise to "enlarge your manhood" have become an everyday pest. Simon Cox, of Radio 4's the Investigation, set out to discover who is behind them.

A device designed in Singapore will help blind and vision impaired people to identify everyday objects, store music and listen to audio books

Talk of Middle East peace conferences matters little to Gazans struggling with everyday life, the BBC's Jeremy Bowen says.

Scientists discover a way of levitating small objects, which may improve the performance of some everyday devices.

The law-abiding majority is a myth, according to a survey, which finds most of us have indulged in some sort of petty crime. Steve Tomkins brings some middle-class criminals to book. After that - test your ethics with four everyday dilemmas for some low-level profiteering.