Breaking one of the 10 Commandment is easy enough to do but confessing your sins can be a tricky business, however much you want to, says Laurie Taylor, in his weekly column for the Magazine.

Barack Obama's US election victory and his moves to assemble a team to help him govern continue to fill the papers.

A profile of the man executed on charges of helping carry out the devastating bombing on Bali on 12 October 2002.

A search is under way for a man thought to have been dragged to his death by a crocodile in northern Australia.

A snail species from the Mediterranean is found in the UK at historic Cliveden House.

Economist Kaushik Basu looks at how changing demographics might affect India in years to come.

The BBC News website looks at the bloody Anfal campaign launched against the Kurds by Saddam Hussein's government.

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The News of the World's Mazher Mahmood is an undercover reporter who specialises in exposing the activities of high-profile celebrities.

BBC Sport's Farayi Mungazi says some African teams need a change of nickname

A Briton convicted of murdering a Spanish teenager faces questioning over a series of unsolved murders in UK.

With crude oil prices at a 22-year high, motorists are paying out up to £1 a litre at the pumps. Will this hike hit those who don't own a car - or drive for a living?

The charge of treason is back on the political agenda, but the last person executed for it was the infamous Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw.

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After a sex-change operation, a Nigerian football player hopes to prove a point to his detractors.

BBC NI's political correspondent Gareth Gordon profiles the Alliance Party leader David Ford.

Amarnath Tewary visits a village of 'political' widows in India's most lawless and backward state of Bihar.

The Green Zone - the administrative centre in the middle of Baghdad - is now officially called the International Zone, though it seems likely to keep its old sobriquet.

Matt Wells talks to residents of the borough of Queens, which has seen successive waves of immigrant groups.