BBC News website readers all over the world have been sending their reactions to the election of Barack Obama as the new US president.

Ahead of general elections, Gabriel Gatehouse looks at how ordinary people live in Belarus - dubbed Europe's "last outpost of tyranny".

We hear thousands of platitudes in daily life, and many are uttered to steer us away from scrutinising questionable practices, writes Katharine Whitehorn.

Staff working at 11 east London stations on the District Line are being balloted over strike, a leading union says.

With novels such as A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn exposed the tyranny of the Soviet system.

US President George W Bush praises close US-Israeli ties on a visit to the country on its 60th anniversary.

The pressure of league tables forces independent and state schools to stop pupils taking difficult subjects, it is claimed.

George Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in the Black Sea resort of Sochi for strategic talks, and join in a folk dance.

US President George W Bush pays tribute to Croatia's democracy during a speech in Zagreb.

African papers are impatient over the delay in the announcement of the results of Zimbabwe's elections.

The Bishop of Durham attacks government attitudes to embryo research and asylum seekers.

Saddam's tyranny may have gone, what is the real legacy of the British liberation promised when they first invaded.

Profiles of Karachi residents who are taking part in a special Pakistan laptop link-up with BBC readers.

The murder of Paul Quinn was a barbaric deed which was evil and inexcusable, Archbishop Sean Brady says.

Tune up for the big rugby days with Scrum V's songs guide

Here is the full text of Margaret Thatcher's message on the 25th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Nicolas Sarkozy says the French people have opted for change, but that he will speak for every citizen.

Papers in the Middle East view the return of bomb attacks to North Africa.

As the government attacks "fashion and the tyranny of thinness" for undermining the confidence of girls, experts are seeing children as young as eight with anorexia. But blaming stick-thin models might be too simplistic.

Pakistan says it has arrested more than 500 Taleban militants this year and handed most of them to Afghanistan.