BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Jerusalem.

The Irish city of Limerick continues to be blighted by decades-old feuds between rival gangs, the BBC's Michael Buchanan reports.

The PM says he is not ruling out a law change on organ donation, despite experts rejecting the idea of "presumed consent".

BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Jerusalem.

Families fall into six categories in their attitude to food - and that affects their child's health, the government says.

Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, England's chief medical officer, on how the NHS could learn from department stores, such as John Lewis.

The George Bush presidency has been rich pickings for those in one line of work - comedy. But with Barack Obama's election win steeped in historical significance, America's new leader seems, for the moment, to be beyond comic reproach, says John O'Farrell.

"Tottenham's Darren Bent is a striker reborn"

Miniature satellite tags help unlock mysteries of the journey undertaken by juvenile salmon in the North-West United States.

His name is largely unknown in Britain and the United States, but the recipient of the most feted prize in literature has much he could tell them about their lives today.

The government's audit office says there is no evidence schemes like the attack on "failing" schools work.

The latest research from Gibraltar shows Neanderthal diets were far more varied than previously thought.

Views from the Labour conference on what tax changes the government should introduce.

In the face of global economic difficulties, Northern Ireland's politicians are either incredibly focussed or dangerously blinkered, says the Politics Show's Jim Fitzpatrick.

Paralympics GB's most successful team for two decades returns home, as chief Phil Lane urges a recruitment drive for 2012.

Psychologists believe they have a clearer idea of what makes a terrorist after interviewing a group of Islamic extremists in Pakistan.

Health chiefs on Shetland dismiss research which claims the islands are the fattest area of the UK as "misleading and simplistic".

Shetland and parts of Wales and north England are Britain's obesity hotspots, according to a map compiled from GP records.

Ahmed Rashid in Islamabad says that Pakistan faces a variety of complex problems following the resignation of Pervez Musharraf.

The stories making the headlines in Scotland's newspapers.