Felipe Massa wins in Interlagos but Lewis Hamilton finishes fifth to take the 2008 world title.

Was it a boat? Was it a plane? A bit of both in fact. The Ekranoplan is one of the more obscure products of the fight for technological supremacy in the Cold War. Nigel Paterson recounts its secret history.

Usain Bolt produces a regal 200m final performance on the second day at Crystal Palace.

How home tech support is gaining ground in the UK.

Sir Alex Ferguson, bringer of peace, plus Lewis Hamilton

Dame Judi Dench leads an star cast of strong women in the BBC TV's flagship winter drama Cranford.

Carlsberg the cat, so called after being found in a pub's lager delivery, is returned to his owners.

A driver whose car engine was not making its usual purr was amazed to find the noise was a tiny kitten.

Theatre critics were largely won over by Lee Mead's debut in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, while others were less convinced.

An unpublished novel by renowned author Jeanette Winterson is found at a Tube station in London.

An owl house is put in the roof of an old farm building under conversion rather than force the birds out.

A look at what's making the headlines in Friday's morning newspapers.

Spoof Kazakh reporter Borat - aka comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - brightens up London's Leicester Square.

Police in Lincolnshire arrest a man after break-ins at four Lincolnshire pubs.

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The Isle of Man police are encouraging more people to join neighbourhood watch schemes.

Irish crooner Daniel O'Donnell is selling his eight-bedroomed Donegal home for 3m euro.

Patricia Smith runs one of Scotland's oldest neighbourhood watch schemes.

This autumn will finally see the first cheques paid out by the Pension Protection Fund.