A sailor is rescued from a life raft off Spain after his worried wife in England dialled 999 to say he was missing.

A raft of measures is suggested to target anti-social drivers, including those who speed excessively or use drugs.

Schoolboy Eoghan Quigg's "bird's nest" hair inspires a raft of copycat styles

A raft of housing statistics revealing a stalled market were released on Tuesday.

Three fishermen are praised by the coastguard for their quick actions to escape their sinking boat.

Dozens of other candidates are running for the US presidency in addition to the Republican and Democratic parties representing a raft of minor parties. This guide explains the abbreviations used for these parties by the BBC on election night.

US consumer confidence hits a record low in October, in the face of a raft of difficult economic conditions.

Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, approves a raft of measures worth $86bn (£51bn) to assist banks.

China's dairy industry has turned sour because of a raft of problems running from the source of milk, to the shelf, writes the BBC's Vaudine England.

A fourth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is among a raft of projects unveiled by the Disney studio.

In 2004 the tiny island of Pitcairn in the Pacific was rocked by a court case that revealed a raft of incidents of sexual abuse. Four years on, how has the island coped with the fallout of the case?

A British woman rowing solo across the Pacific has managed to rendezvous mid-ocean with a raft made from plastic bottles, in an encounter which may have saved her life.

Network Rail chiefs could see their bonuses cut after a report commissioned by rail regulators suggests a raft of sweeping changes.

A couple of fishermen had to be airlifted to safety from their life raft after their boat sank off the Cornish coast.

A fisherman says his life was saved when his boat sank, by a new RNLI satellite alert system

An inquiry into the sinking of a fishing boat is told its life rafts had not been serviced for years before the tragedy.

Iran condemns as illegal the latest raft of European Union sanctions over its uranium enrichment programme.

A crewman of a rowing boat which capsized in the Atlantic tells the BBC he feared for their lives as he struggled to free a life raft.

Des O'Connor and Victoria Wood join a raft of figures from TV entertainment in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.

A Worcestershire safari park loses its planning appeal to keep a river raft ride.