Zimbabwe's opposition says it will not accept a compromise plan proposed by Southern African leaders to share a key ministry.

Motorists on mobile phones and with no seat belt on will be stopped by police outside fire stations in a crackdown.

Several hundred people taking part in a run in the Lake District are reported to be stranded by flooding and torrential rain. BBC News website readers sent us their accounts of the race.

A look at how the the financial melt-down has affected foreign policy issues in the presidential race.

It has been an extraordinary couple of days for the Icelandic nation as the eyes of the financial world have turned to this small island economy seemingly battling the financial elements alone.

A disabled man is seriously ill in hospital after crashing a car which he was driving in a bid to set a record.

A car is pulled off a beach in the Isle of Man after it becomes stuck before high tide.

A World War I Victoria Cross winner is honoured with the dedication of a memorial in Nottinghamshire.

A family of six are rescued from a small motorboat when it gets stuck in mud in a Devon estuary.

The largest gathering of firefighters in the UK is taking place in Stirling for a two-day competitive event.

Firefighters rescue a cow that had become stuck in the milking parlour of a farm at Avebury.

Pakistan government lawyers say restrictions on nuclear scientist AQ Khan should be maintained for national security.

Firefighters will ballot for strike action unless a pay dispute is resolved by 22 August.

The boss of a limousine firm has been convicted of ordering the murder of his wife, an off-duty special constable. Fadi Nasri's motives were greed and lust for his mistress.

BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks at the talks, ceasefire and political deals that are breaking out across the Middle East.

An in-depth look at the reign of FIA president Max Mosley

A woman was stabbed to death by her possessive boyfriend, who then killed himself, an inquest hears.

Firefighters from Northamptonshire test their ability to free trapped casualties.

A fraudster who stole tens of thousands of pounds from people in Devon and Cornwall is jailed for 15 months.

All sorts of incentives have been used to get people to vote in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East.