As US swimming sensation Michael Phelps sets his sights on more gold medal wins at the Beijing Olympics, the BBC's Michael Hirst examines the role an extraordinary diet has played in the sportsman's success.

A pasta factory in North Lincolnshire is to close with 107 job losses, despite a 90 day consultation period.

A manufacturer has said the cost of its main raw ingredient is 300% higher because of global food price increases.

Leftover chips, pasta and salads from a university's eateries are turned into campus plant food.

Italian pasta makers face an investigation by Italy's regulator into alleged price fixing of one of the country's staple foods.

BBC correspondents in key wheat producing and consuming regions examine the impact of the soaring grain price.

Consumers' associations in Italy ask people to abstain from pasta for the day to protest against price rises.

The cost of pasta in Italy is set to rise because durum wheat is increasingly being used as a bio-fuel, manufacturers say.

A drought and storms devastate Italy's basil crop around Genoa, a key ingredient of a famous pesto sauce.

The head of Europe's biggest pasta mill is arrested in the Italian city of Bari on food adulterating charges.

BBC News looks at what children are eating at schools around the world.

Cash from a development board sees the creation of new jobs at a pasta plant.

The chips are down and the prices are up at a mid Wales school as pupils vote for healthier options.

Pizza Express trumps a bid by The Restaurant Group to take control of rival pizza and pasta chain Ask Central

Food firm Dolmio recalls 2,000 pasta sauce pouches after receiving several complaints about the product's taste and smell.

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A range of pasta sauces are recalled after they are found to contain a potentially cancer-causing dye.

Thousands of jars of pasta sauce are being recalled after they were found to contain a potentially cancer-causing dye.

A range of pasta sauces are recalled in NI stores after they are found to contain a potentially cancer-causing dye.

Two pilots trying to break the altitude record in the world's biggest helium balloon, to be launched from Cornwall, plan a special diet.