The Speaker of the Commons rejects an MP's call to fine colleagues if their mobile phone goes off in the Chamber.

What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time in 160 years ago. But it is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?

The BBC responds to viewer complaints about a Muslim EastEnders character breaking his Ramadan fast.

With another wet weekend ahead, the familiar grumbles about British summers have surfaced. But are we deluding ourselves that the should be any different, asks meteorologist Philip Eden.

Zulu descendants and battle re-enactment enthusiasts will join dozens of family members by a graveside next month to honour a reluctant war hero. Nearly 130 years after the battle of Rorke's Drift - immortalised by the 1964 film Zulu - why does the military defence still rate so highly in the public's imagination?

All the key points from the debate and vote on government plans to extend terror detentions.

Ricky Ponting praises bowler Stuart Clarke after his five wickets help Australia to victory over West Indies.

Julianne Moore and Gail Garcia Bernal turn in a taut, psychological drama which is a fitting opener for the Cannes Film Festival.

Forget about the gaffe, it's the media mindset that makes so much of gaffes that is the real issue, says Clive James.

Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon is cleared of speeding charges when magistrates dismiss the case.

Broadcaster John Stapleton follows former deputy prime minister John Prescott by admitting he has suffered from an eating disorder.

A portrait of Tony Blair, painted in his last few months as prime minister, has been unveiled in Westminster.

Carlos Tevez grabs a crucial away goal for Manchester United late on after Karim Benzema's superb strike for Lyon.

A fake Monet painting which featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow sells for £15,000 at auction.

A fake Monet painting which featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow is being put under the hammer.

Jeremy Guscott says Jonny Wilkinson is still England's number one fly-half, despite the emergence of Danny Cipriani.

Ian Paisley Jr admits he made "mistakes" in the controversy over his lobbying for constituency issues.

Solving the world's environmental ills may mean re-thinking the role of nations and national governments.

David Cannadine on why the United States, champion of democracy, has a drawn-out presidential electoral system that is a far cry from the "one vote for all" principle familiar in the UK.

Readers' comments to a series of articles looking at various aspects of climate "catastrophism" and "scepticism".