Fights in Britain and the rest of the world as well as the latest results.

Uruguyans are split over the decision by Congress to decriminalise abortion but opinion are also divided over the president's role in the issue, reports Veronica Psetizki

Canada's Matt Evans insists he will have no divided loyalties should he play against Wales on Friday.

More than 40 years of Israeli occupation distorts everything in Hebron, even the school run, writes the BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen.

Israelis and Palestinians alike want Jerusalem for their capital, but as they vote for a new mayor, many of the city's residents fear it is in decline, writes the BBC's Heather Sharp.

Ongoing political protests are splitting Thai society along class lines, the BBC's Jonathan Head finds.

A profile of Mosiuoa Lekota, who has split from South Africa's ruling ANC to form a new party.

Residents in a housing estate in Glasgow could find themselves living in North Lanarkshire under boundary change plans.

BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut looks at the background to a rift that has put South Africa's ruling party on the verge of splitting.

Hungary suffers sweeping job cuts and weak sales as a controversial international loan deal shores up its finances.

Former pop star Kerry Katona has parted ways with her high-powered publicist Max Clifford.

The first legal sale of southern African ivory for almost a decade opens with conservationists split over its impact.

The world's press continues to express anxiety over how far the global financial crisis might spread.

Comedian Matt Lucas and his partner Kevin McGee are splitting up, in what has been described as the first "gay divorce". So what's different about the break-up of a civil partnership?

EU environment ministers are split over a climate change package that some fear may prove too costly.

The Czech PM insists his government will be ready to assume the EU presidency in January despite a regional election defeat.

Pop star Madonna takes to the stage on the same day she and husband Guy Ritchie announce they are divorcing.

Pop star Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie are to divorce, their PR representatives confirm.

Hundreds of rail passengers are trapped in a tunnel for 90 minutes when a train splits in two in a tunnel in south London.

Actor David Duchovny has separated from his wife of 11 years, actress Tea Leoni, it is reported.