Facts and graphics about the BBC Box and shipping containers used by the industry today.

Historically, the Privy Council was the name given to the group of ministers who acted as chief advisers to the King or Queen.

Members of the Privy Council are entitled to use the prefix "The Right Honourable".

The BBC's Erica Chernofsky looks at how Israel's highly traditional ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is tackling the challenges and opportunities of new communications technologies.

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BBC Sport's guide to how each Paralympic sport is classified

BBC Sport's guide to how participants in each Paralympic sport are classified.

Kosovo has three different international dialling codes, as it struggles to free itself from Serbian influence.

Car thefts and related crime are on the increase in a Wiltshire town, police reveal.

Information has come to light about why Pakistani action against YouTube made the site inaccessible.

A US town wins 40-year campaign to change its telephone prefix from 666 so residents can avoid a number associated with the Devil.

It is 90 years since the first major tank attack in the conflict that changed warfare, but also the language, forever.

Martin Conaghan previews the Special Olympics World Summer Games in China.

Film fans are divided over the title of the latest Indiana Jones adventure, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The EU is set to abandon plans for Britain to ditch imperial measurements for metric, but how well do you know either?

Liverpool and Manchester United are wrestling over a player, but outside football is there really a bitter rivalry?

A look at the man elected president of Malawi in May 2004.

A missing letter in a web address causes problems for frustrated pupils seeking Scottish exam results.

Nick Assinder on the prospect of Lembit Opik joining Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral race.

Boris Johnson is certainly a "fun" figure, but does he have the stuff to defeat London mayor Ken Livingstone?