A Briton who barricaded himself into a Mumbai hotel room for two days when gunmen attacked tells of his relief at being rescued.

Hair straighteners to a child's scooter - the gifts found to be counterfeit or dangerous by UK trading standards officers.

Clean-up operations are under way on South Uist after thousands of litres of oil contaminate a sea loch.

Thirty-two of 34 miners are rescued from a flooded coal mine in China's Henan province.

Paul Rose led eight scientific diving expeditions for the BBC's new Oceans series, which aims to give a global picture of the state of our seas.

One man takes his two grandsons on a personal journey to the Western Front, for a history lesson they are unlikely to forget.

The 1968 crash of a B52, armed with nuclear warheads, has left a lasting legacy, according to those involved in the clear-up.

A home owner speaks of his frustration over a dispute about who should stop sewage leaking from a road.

Sabretooth "tigers" were social animals who lived and hunted in prides, a study suggests.

A campaign is launched to cut carbon monoxide deaths after a survey found 20m homes could be at risk.

The Scottish government has prepared a contingency plan to cull salmon stocks should they become infected with a parasite which has already decimated salmon in some of Norway's fresh waters.

Environment correspondent Richard Black's diary of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which is being held in Barcelona, Spain.

Ex-South African President Thabo Mbeki arrives in Harare to try and salvage the power-sharing deal he brokered last month.

A man killed two men in a flat above a chip shop because they sexually assaulted him, a court hears.

Opposition parties claim that the removal of Lord Adonis as schools minister will undermine the future of academies.

KS Shaini on why the toxic waste left behind at the site of the world's worst industrial accident is not being removed.

The Crown Prosecution Service recommends that no-one is prosecuted in relation to a gas explosion in Plymouth in which a schoolgirl died.

BBC Panorama reporter John Ware explains the problems facing detectives investigating the Omagh bombing and how GCHQ intercepts could have helped

What are the geological options available to lock away captured CO2 for thousands of years.

Gordon Brown's team may be buoyed by Olympic success, but are they ready to return to the Westminster competition as economic and political issues drag on?