Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.

The European Commission says it will send 150 observers to monitor elections due in Bangladesh next month.

International observers say voting in Guinea-Bissau's parliamentary election was calm and orderly, with a high turnout.

World leaders welcome the outcome of the G20 summit but some observers say the action plan does not go far enough.

Ofsted's short, sharp inspection regime presents only a "superficial snapshot" of schools, a report says.

Nicaragua's opposition says local elections which brought big wins for the governing Sandinista Party were fraudulent.

Scotland remembers those who have died at war as the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I is marked.

The background to the fighting in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and the Russian incursion into Georgian territory.

A minute's silence will be observed at all Guernsey football matches in memory of Jason Piriou, who died earlier this week.

York's popular observation wheel is dismantled after two and a half years and 1.2m visitors.

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US space agency officials say the orbiting Hubble telescope should come back online for full science observations on Friday.

Efforts by governments across Europe to end the banking crisis and revive credit markets may well work over time, but it is unlikely to be a quick fix, say analysts.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells the BBC how he sees the future after Russian troops withdraw from areas of Georgia.

Experts are observing a deep water whale species which is lost in a Highlands sea loch.

More than 100 people in South Africa are under medical observation over suspected haemorrhagic fever fears.

Russia dismantles a checkpoint near Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, the first step of a pullback plan.

Science reporter Paul Rincon details the goings on at the International Astronautical Congress which is taking place this year in Glasgow.

EU observers enter the buffer zone around South Ossetia, as they begin monitoring a truce between Georgia and Russia.

The US House of Representatives has rejected a $700bn (£380bn) bail-out plan to stabilise the economy. Here BBC website readers in the US give their reaction to the news that took many observers by surprise.