A Victorian pumping station built to clean up a heavily polluted River Thames receives £1.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

British number one Andy Murray beats Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka in the fourth round of the US Open.

The European Space Agency is doing its first major trawl for recruits for more than a decade. An expected 50,000 applicants will be whittled down to four astronauts destined to live on the International Space Station. What sort of person will make the ultimate journey?

BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Jerusalem.

A fund-raising drive means one of JMW Turner's finest watercolours, Blue Rigi, can remain in the UK.

British novelist Dame Muriel Spark, most famous for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, dies at her Italian home.

Entertainer Stephen Fry has criticised the 'ridiculous sense of elitism' at Cambridge University. Is he right?

Actor and director Stephen Fry is awarded an honorary degree from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

Eulogy to President Ronald Reagan delivered by the former Canadian PM Brian Mulroney funeral in Washington.

Excerpts from the eulogies at Ronald Reagan's funeral, delivered by President Bush, his father George Bush senior, Baroness Thatcher and Brian Mulroney.

A Prom to celebrate the Queen's 50-year reign produced some great performances with a regal feel.

Most of Wednesday's newspapers are of the opinion that, when it comes to football and Anglo-French diplomacy, nothing is as it seems.

As he prepare to launch his new solo album, Newsmaker looks at the life and times of Old Rubber Lips, Mick Jagger

We want to hear your views on the US attacks. Did they mark a defining moment in the world' 's history? Has everything changed forever?

Ben Johnson ran faster than any man in history, then had his medal stipped away after testing positive for drugs. David Belton went to meet him.

E-cyclopedia looks into what and who are the pebble-dash people.

Germaine Greer has been at the centre of national debate many times before. But this time it is not her own doing.

An embarrassing incident for right-winger Pauline Hanson may be the highlight of the Australian general election.