A portrait of Tony Blair, painted in his last few months as prime minister, has been unveiled in Westminster.

The Rolling Stones tell BBC News Online they may drop a German support band who admit to a far-right past.

Oxford's Labour group believes it can do a better job in the city than the Lib Dems/Green coalition it lost power to.

Scholars of Renaissance art from the US, UK and Italy ask a gallery not to go ahead with a proposed restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's Adoration Of The Magi.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling tells the BBC in an exclusive interview that some of her writing is unsuitable for young children.

BBC News Online set up an e-mail exchange between Michael Elliot, current editor in chief of eCountries and Colin Hines, ex-Greenpeace economist and author of Localization- A Global Manifesto.