In a country accelerating towards an increasingly segregated society, a report suggests Bramhall's residents are the UK's least lonely.

A new way to make Operation Stack work, where lorries park during delays at the Kent port of Dover, is being tested by police.

The BBC's Nick Bryant charts the epoch-making progress of US President-elect Barack Obama.

Nigeria's military has been sent to help segregate a town after violent clashes and impose a curfew, officials say.

Officials in Tamil Nadu state partly demolish a wall which segregated higher caste Hindus from Dalits.

School choice and the system of admissions is fuelling social segregation, says the chief schools adjudicator.

England's best-performing state schools still take the brightest pupils, according to latest research.

Further education colleges are warned they need to prevent Islamic extremists recruiting among students.

The BBC's Lee Carter reports on Toronto's controversial decision to open an Afrocentric school funded by taxpayers.

A County Antrim school did not sexually discriminate against boys with its uniform policy, the High Court rules.

Britain's prisons are seeing the introduction of a new crime fighting tool: the Boss chair

A human rights court ruling attacking the segregation of Roma schoolchildren is welcomed by Roma rights groups across Europe. Nick Thorpe reports.

A lawyer for a Saudi rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and jail says this contravenes Islamic law.

The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Czech government illegally educated Roma children separately.

Alliance leader David Ford says Northern Ireland's four main parties have no interest in ending segregation.

The Little Rock crisis of September 1957 pitted nine black schoolchildren against the brute force of southern racism in one of the most climactic struggles of the civil rights era.

A UK social atlas suggests that British society is becoming more segregated by class, researchers have said.

London is far more segregated on religious grounds than by race, new research shows.

Doncaster Rovers chief executive Dave Morris wants Keepmoat Stadium operators to improve segregation between fans by installing netting.

Lawyer Oliver Hill who was a key figure in the struggle to end racial segregation in US schools dies aged 100.