India's most ambitious scheme to reduce poverty has disappointing results in its first year, studies suggest.

A random spot check of 22 taxi cabs in a Dorset town finds 20 drivers were breaching their licences.

Safety experts investigate after a Monmouthshire farmer dies after an attack by a bull on his farm.

The papers relish the spectacle of the House of Lords inflicting defeats on the anti-terrorism bill.

I woke up and looked out and saw the windowsill - a smooth white mountain.

Fifty years ago, a choking cloud enveloped London. Here, Barbara Fewster recalls her 16-mile walk home - in heels - guiding her fiancé's car.

Tony Blair must build a future of equality under the Agreement, Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams tells the Peace and Reconciliation forum.

As Britain marks Remembrance Sunday, BBC World Service arts correspondent Lawrence Pollard looks at war poetry from around the world.

One-third of cars for hire at popular tourist resorts in Spain and Greece are dangerous, a survey says.

A Scotsman is said to have been a bigger influence than previously thought on the content of the classic horror novel Frankenstein.

A pensioner drives into oncoming traffic on the M4, killing himself and another driver.

Motorists are being issued with advice cards in a bid to cut deaths on motorway hard shoulders.

This phrase came back to me one day last week when I read a melancholy list, a long list, of dot.com domains that had vanished from the internet, signifying the dot.com millionaires who had gone belly-up.

The parents of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne will urge the home secretary to give parents access to a register of sex offenders.

Police receive 200 calls from the public after an appeal to trace a lorry driver who may have seen the murderer of eight-year-old Sarah Payne.

Police searching for Sarah Payne's killer are desperate to trace the driver of a lorry who may have seen her murderer.